Based on down to Earth: Point-Wise Current-Affairs/GS Articles 2023 (Including PIB)- Download PDF

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Jan 22, 2024

🌟 Development, Environment and Health: Carbon Credit, Men in Black, Due Credit, Renewable Energy, Saving the Carbon Bubble and Many More (October 2023) 

Carbon credits are issued for nine types of projects that either avoid greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by allowing a switchover for cleaning sources or those that remove/sequester the already emitted GHGs. These are Renewable Energy, Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use, Household a…

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Dec 27, 2023

🌟 World Water Week and Jal Jeevan Mission (August) 

The Jal Jeevan Mission in India is an ambitious initiative aimed at providing safe and adequate drinking water to all households in rural India through individual household tap connections by 2024. This mission is essential to addressing water challenges in rural areas and learni…

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Dec 4, 2023

🌟 Development, Environment and Health: Green Sails, Parliament, Tit Bits (16 - 30 September 2023) 

Use of fuels like ammonia and methanol along with key operational changes can help shipping industry massively reduce emissions. German multinational company Man Energy Solutions announced successful testing of an ammonia run marine engine on July 13.

Green Sails

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🌟 Development, Environment and Health: Climate Change, Rise of the Aliens (16 - 30 September 2023) 

Antarctica after a record-low sea ice cover saw one of the largest ozone holes ever reported this August, highlighting the changing nature of the world՚s largest frozen landmass. For the region, the 2023 winter season ended with a record-low sea ice cover in August coincided with…

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Nov 29, 2023

🌟 Development, Environment and Health: Indian Birds, States of Hunger, Proactive with Droughts (16 - 30 September 2023) 

Bird species long-term trend show a large-scale decline as per “State of India՚s Birds 2023” report. As per the second edition of the report studying long-term trends of 342 bird species, 60% of them show declines.

Indian Birds

Bird species long-term trend show a large-scale declin…

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