The world has seen unexpected floods in Europe and China, record-breaking heat-waves in the United States, and deadly forest fires in Siberia, and Turkey and Greece. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 This part of the report will present the latest scientific understanding of the climate system, how and why is it changing, and the impact […]
Status check on world climate Read More »
Scientists have warned that environmental degradation is killing one of the oldest and most precious pieces of the world’s human heritage. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Researchers writing in the online peer-reviewed open access journal ‘Scientific Reports’, published by Nature Research, have reported that Pleistocene-era rock paintings dating back to 45,000-20,000 years ago in cave
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The latest research has that the Earth’s North and South poles have moved since the mid-1900s. They have been affected due to the melting of glaciers and other factors caused by humans, namely climate change. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Polar wander is the motion of a pole in relation to some reference frame. It
Melting glaciers due to climate change caused Earth’s axis to shift since the mid-90s Read More »
Saudi Arabia will join the United States, Canada, Norway, and Qatar informing the ‘Net Zero Producers Forum’ for oil and gas producers to discuss how they can support the implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest crude exporter, will be part of the new
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A glacier break is suspected to have caused the flash floods in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli. When glaciers melt, the water in glacial lakes accumulates behind loose, natural “glacial/moraine dams” made of ice, sand, pebbles and ice residue. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 A GLOF refers to the flooding that occurs when the water dammed by a
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The Centre has set up high-level inter-ministerial Apex Committee for Implementation of Paris Agreement (AIPA) under the chairmanship of Secretary, MoEFCC to oversee the implementation of climate change targets that India has committed to under the 2015 Paris Agreement. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The purpose of AIPA is to generate a coordinated response
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The Scientists have predicted for the first time when, where and how polar bears are likely to disappear and warning that if greenhouse gas emissions stay on their current trajectory all but a few polar bear populations in the Arctic will probably disappeared by 2100. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points By as early as
Polar bears might disappear by 2100 due to melting ice & climate change Read More »
Scientists from the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG) have tracked Climate change by following the Paleomonsoonal pattern of the subcontinent by harnessing magnetic mineralogy, a technique that is faster and more accurate than existing methods. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Magnetic mineralogy is sensitive to changes in ambient chemical and physical processes that result
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The scientists have for the first time, discovered warm water underneath the Thwaites Glacier, which earned the nickname Doomsday Glacier for being Antarctica’s fastest melting glaciers. Measuring 74000 sq mi, this glacier is estimated to be the size of Florida in the United States of America. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Climate change is fast
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Australia’s devastating drought, and other effects of climate change are pushing the iconic duck-billed platypus, a globally unique mammal, towards extinction. Platypuses were once considered widespread across the eastern Australian mainland and Tasmania, although not a lot is known about their distribution or abundance because of the species’ secretive and nocturnal nature. Daily Current Affairs
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