General Awareness

ENVIRONMENT - August 2022

Aug 2022

Jan 02, 2023

The 'Enigmatic' Peat Bog Seeking Worldwide Recognition

A vast area of peat bog in Scotland's Flow Country could become one of UNICCO's newest World Heritage sites.
This land was prepared for large blocks of commercial forestry, which included the planting of millions of non-native trees.
Flow Country is home to a diverse range of wildlife including birds, mammals and plants.
Flow Country contains the most intact and extensive raised bog system in the world.
This expanse of moors, moors, pools, lochs, hills and mountains covers much of Caithness and Sutherland in the North Highlands.
It's about 50 miles wide – about the distance from Glasgow to Edinburgh – and covers almost a million acres of land.
The bogs, which have been growing for 10,000 years, are formed by layers of wet mosses and other plants as they die.

Dec 30, 2022

Tamil Nadu Government Sets up Nilgiri Tahr Conservation Project

The Tamil Nadu government operationalised the 'Nilgiri Tahr project' touted as the first-of-its-kind in the country which aims at restoring the original habitat of the State animal and stabilising its population.
With a budgetary outlay of Rs. 25.14 crore, the five-year initiative will set up a dedicated team headed by a project director to deal with the conservation of the species. It will explore the possibility of undertaking captive breeding of the animal for reintroduction in forest patches where it has become locally extinct.

Dec 28, 2022

Antarctica's Emperor Penguins could be Extinct by 2100

Antarctica's Biodiversity: New research indicated that more has to be done to safeguard Antarctic ecosystems, and if we don't make a change, up to 97% of Antarctic species with land-based populations might go extinct by the year 2100. The study also discovered that ten crucial techniques to lessen threats to Antarctica's biodiversity may be implemented with just USD 23 million annually.
It is expected that Antarctica's ice-free areas would grow as global warming becomes worse, drastically altering the wildlife habitat. The vegetation and fauna of Antarctica are anticipated to suffer as extreme weather events like heat waves increase in frequency.
The emperor penguin is the most endangered species in Antarctica because it breeds on ice.
The emperor penguin is the only species in the analysis that, in the worst-case scenario, faces extinction by 2100.

Dec 27, 2022

'Bomb Cyclone' Winter Storm Hits US with Life Threatening Extremely Cold Climate

Bomb Cyclone thrashed US and Canada with extreme climate and has trapped the residents inside their houses with snow and power outages. During the Christmas season, the Bomb Cyclone occurred due to a low temperature of -40 degrees Fahrenheit. Thousands of flights were cancelled and several highways were blocked. People were advised not to step outside their homes as was be life-threatening.
Due to Artic Blast, the US experienced an extremely cold climate, heavy snow, and intense wind. The authorities ordered to put a halt on travelling during the Christmas season because of the Bomb Cyclone.
Bomb Cyclone is created when the air of different masses whether cold or dry comes together. The warm air rises and makes a cloud system which lowers the air pressure. These cloud system forms storms and circulates counter clockwise in the low-pressure area. A Bomb Cyclone is a mid-latitude storm in which the central pressure drops fast at one millibar per hour for 24 hours.

Dec 22, 2022

Infosys Recognised with 'A' Score for Transparency on Climate Change

Infosys was recognised for leadership in corporate transparency and performance on climate change by global environmental non-profit CDP, securing a place on its annual 'A List'.
Based on data reported through CDP's 2022 Climate Change questionnaire, Infosys is one of a small number of companies that achieved an 'A' out of nearly 15,000 companies scored.
CDP's annual environmental disclosure and scoring process is widely recognized as the gold standard of corporate environmental transparency.
Infosys featured in the leadership category under the CDP Climate Change disclosure for the seventh year in a row.

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