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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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Jan 16, 2024

🌟 Mizoram Pioneers Digital Health Revolution (August) 

Objective: The ABDM is a national initiative in India launched in September 2021 to enhance the country՚s digital health infrastructure. it՚s a key component of the Ayushman Bharat program, which aims to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) .

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Dec 19, 2023

🌟 Organ Donation in India (August) 

Recently, the critical shortage of organ donations, particularly deceased donations, has led to a dire situation in India, with thousands of patients waiting for transplants and a significant number losing their lives daily. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has earlier m…

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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

Use of fuels like …

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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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🌟 Development, Environment and Health: Deficit Monsoon, BRICS Expansion and Climate Discourse, Fukushima Water Release (16 - 30 September 2023) 

According to the data released on September 1 by the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 11.9 million hectares (ha) of pulses have been sown in 2023 as against 13 million ha in 2022.

Deficit Monsoon

India stares at another drought year.

According to data by the IMD, w…

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Nov 26, 2023

🌟 Development, Environment and Health: Odishas Weaver Communities, Moon Mission (16 - 30 September 2023) 

Odisha՚s traditional Ikat weavers mobilize into a company for improving incomes and lives. Subarnapur district also known as Sonepur is home to several weaver communities known for the unique Bomkai design more popularly called Ikat.

Odisha՚s Weaver Communities

Odisha՚s traditional…

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