Environment Current Affairs

The Supreme Court swooped-in to intervene on behalf of the critically endangered Great Indian Bustards over the birds falling dead after colliding with power lines running through their dwindling natural habitats in Gujarat and Rajasthan. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Scientific Name: Ardeotis nigriceps Physical description: Black crown on the forehead contrasting with the pale […]

Members who were part of the Commission for Air Quality Management said they were taken aback by the sudden dissolution of the body, constituted last October and via an ordinance. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The commission was headed by M.M. Kutty, a former Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. The dissolution

The ‘gregarious flowering of bamboo’ inside the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS) and the nearby Mudumalai Tiger Reserve and Gudalur forest division in Tamil Nadu may pose a threat to wildlife in the Nilgiri biosphere, a major tiger and elephant habitat. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Bamboosa bambos is a monocarpic (flowering only once) plant belonging

Long-Lost Babbler Bird Documented in Borneo for the First Time in Over 170 Years. The Bird was last recorded between 1843 and 1848, when a scientist collected the first and only museum specimen. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The black-browed babbler (Malacocincla perspicillata) is a songbird species in the family Pellorneidae. The species is endemic

The Simlipal forest reserve area frequently witnesses forest fires during dry weather conditions. A fire which started in the biosphere reserve area in February and has been raging for nearly a week now, was finally brought under control. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Similipal, which derives its name from ‘Simul’ (silk cotton) tree, is a

A Himalayan mammal, somewhere between a goat and an antelope, has been confirmed as the newest creature to be spotted in Assam. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Himalayan serow is a subspecies of the mainland serow native to the Himalayas. The Himalayan serow is mostly blackish, with flanks, hindquarters, and upper legs that are

Nag River Pollution Abatement Project has been approved in order to treat the sewage and industrial waste flowing into the river in Nagpur. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 This was announced by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari after chairing a meeting of World Bank officials, DG NMCG and Nagpur Municipal commissioner. The project, approved under the