Category: Prelims Current Affairs

Euthanasia, Genetically-engineered trees, Project Cheetah, Yellow-band disease

Recently, it is reported that a rapidly spreading disease, commonly known as yellow band disease, is killing corals over vast stretches of the sea floor of Thailand.

India has signed an agreement with South Africa to translocate 12 cheetahs to the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh.

US developed and field-tested GE version of American chestnut tree (named as Darling 58) and is awaiting clearances from government agencies to grow them in wild.

Supreme Court altered the existing guidelines for ‘living wills’, as laid down in Common Cause vs. Union of India & Anr (2018), which allowed passive euthanasia.

Methanol Blending, Geothermal energy in India, Taxing farmers’ income in India,

Recently, a new study has found that non-natural light had increased the brightness of Skyglow, by 9.2-10% every year between 2011 and 2022 with significant ecological, health and cultural implications.

Economic experts have opined that income tax must be paid if one’s income is above a threshold, irrespective of whether one is a farmer.

ONGC plans to map the geothermal energy sources of India in search of clean energy as India has set an ambitious target of 500 GW of installed renewable energy capacity by 2030 and net zero carbon emission by 2070.

Demo-run of inland water vessel (SB Gangadhar) powered by methanol blended diesel (MD15) in Guwahati, Assam was held in run-up to India Energy Week 2023 (IEW 2023).

Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs), Inland Waterways in India, Asian Waterbird Census, Local Bubbles, Global Overturning Circulation (GOC)

A team of researchers from the Goa-based National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research and the School of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences in Goa University reconstructed the past deep-water circulations of the Indian Ocean.