In News recently: Europe’s green steel mandate rocks Indian steel exports Green Steel Green steel refers to steel produced using environmentally friendly processes, with a major focus on reducing carbon dioxide emissions associated with traditional steelmaking. Definition: Green steel…
Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative(SSI) (Already asked in Prelims 2013) Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative is an innovative method of sugarcane production using less seeds, less water and optimum utilization of fertilizers and land to achieve more yields. The major principles that govern SSI…
AGRICULTURE 3 options to increase food production- Agro chemical based agriculture Organic agriculture Genetically engineered crop-based agriculture Genetically Modified Organisms(GMOs) Plants, Bacteria, Fungi, and Animals whose genes have been altered by manipulation are called Genetically Modified Organisms. Advantages of GM…
GSLV-Mk III / Chandrayaan-2 Mission Chandrayaan-2 launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India, aboard a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) rocket on July 22, 2019. Chandrayaan-2, India’s second mission to the Moon is a totally indigenous mission comprising…
Carbon Sequestration Carbon sequestration or carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is the long-term removal, capture or sequestration of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to slow or reverse atmospheric CO2 pollution and to mitigate or reverse global warming. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is naturally captured from the atmosphere through…
Green Economy The green economy is defined as economy that aims at making issues of reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities, and that aims for sustainable development without degrading the environment. The 2011 UNEP Green Economy Report argues “that to be green, an economy must not only be efficient,…
Important terms related to UNFCCC- some have been aksed earlier -like Bali Action Plan,Kyoto Protocol- picked from UNFCCC Website’s glossary. Important ones are with Dark Blue titles. Adaptation FundThe Adaptation Fund was established to finance concrete adaptation projects and programmes…
Precision Agriculture Precision agriculture (PA), satellite farming or site specific crop management (SSCM) is a farming management concept based on observing, measuring and responding to inter and intra-field variability in crops. The goal of precision agriculture research is to define…
1.The Jerdon’s Courser (Rhinoptilus bitorquatus) Iucnredlist.org It is a nocturnal bird found only in the northern part of the state of Andhra Pradesh in peninsularIndia. It is a flagship species for the extremely threatened scrub jungle. The species was considered to be extinct until it was…
BITCOINS Bitcoin (₿) is a cryptocurrency, a form of electronic cash. It is a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries. Transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded…
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