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Ramsar Sites are the wetlands that have international importance. The term was coined when the International Treaty for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Wetlands was signed at a city of Iran called Ramsar in 1971 . Ramsar Sites in India Ramsar Sites in India – Latest Addition The following sites have been added as the recognized Ramsar Sites in India: Maharashtra – Lonar Lake Agra (Uttar Pradesh) – Sur Sarovar also called, Keetham Lake Uttarakhand – Asan Barrage Bihar – Kanwar Lake or Kabal Taal Facts about Ramsar Sites & Indian Wetlands: Other Interesting Facts about the Ramsar sites: Ramsar sites are one of the major protected areas in the world. There are currently over 2400 Ramsar sites in the world covering an area of 2.5 million sq. kilometres. World’s First Ramsar site was identified in 1974, which was the Cobourg Peninsula in Australia. The United Kingdom has the world’s largest number of Ramsar sites i.e 175. February 2 is celebrated as International Wetlands Day ...

Firecrackers are enjoyed by most of the children in the Diwali festival. And every time it is seen that due to crackers air pollution increases (esp. at the time of Diwali, particularly due to  the post-harvest  'parali' or stubble burning in the agricultural fields of Punjab, Haryana and Western UP ) and affects health. CSIR developed green crackers which are better than previous sound-emitting crackers and other fireworks. Let us read more about green crackers, how they will help in combating air pollution, the composition of green crackers, etc. The green crackers developed by the Indian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) include flower pots, pencils, sparkles, and chakkar. No doubt that green crackers are environment-friendly and are developed to reduce air pollution that causes health hazards. Air pollution is one of the most serious environmental problems confronting our civilisation today. Mainly, it is caused by human activities like mining, cons...

This year, roughly a quarter of the vast Pantanal wetland in Brazil , one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, has burned in wildfires worsened by climate change. Fires between the cities of Miranda e Corumbá. Image by Chico Ribeiro/Governo MT. A fire has been burning in the world’s largest tropical wetlands, the Pantanal, since mid-July . The Pantanal wetlands, situated in west-central Brazil , sprawls over more than 1,50,000 sq km and also extends into Bolivia and Paraguay. The Pantanal derives its name from the Portuguese word for 'swamp'. The unprecedented fires in the wetland have attracted less attention than blazes in Australia, the Western United States and the Amazon, its northern sibling. But while the Pantanal is not a global household name, tourists in the know flock there because it is home to exceptionally high concentrations of breathtaking wildlife: Jaguars, tapirs, caymans,  endangered giant otters and bright blue hyacinth macaws. Indigenous people wa...

Whether measures enforced this time round will help cities rein in air pollution, given the ongoing pandemic, is a moot point. As Delhi's Air Quality Index (AQI) dips to "very poor" and "severe", the capital's authorities are enforcing GRAP strictly Winter is almost here and the perennial battle of the National Capital Region (NCR) against air pollution, arising out of both local factors and the burning of agricultural stubble, has begun once again. Air pollution control measures under the “very poor” and “severe” categories of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) have been enforced in the NCR cities from October 15, and enforcement of anti-pollution norms by various agencies is currently under way. Whether these are able to rein in air pollution, especially with the added risk presented by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic this year, remains to be seen. The GRAP is a set of emergency measures to be taken to reduce air pollution, including odd-even vehi...

Ahead of finalising new goals to protect biodiversity in next 10 years (2021-30), the UN Convention on Biological Diversity on Tuesday released its fifth Global Biodiversity Outlook report showing how none of the 20 agreed conservation targets of the past 10 years could be fully met by the word - a case which will further complicate the global biodiversity crisis.  Experts believe that such crisis may push the world towards more disasters like Covid-19 pandemic, a zoonotic disease transmitted between animals and humans, massive wildfires and water crisis if the countries don't accept the growing scientific consensus over an ambitious new target of protecting at least 30% of the planet by 2030 – popularly known as 30x30 target – under the UN Convention . Blaming human pressure on resources and unsustainable policies where $500 Billion value of government subsidies potentially cause environmental harm across the globe, the report underlined that the world would now require more...

 Between January and September, the Indian Navy, along with environment group Green Yatra, developed Mumbai’s largest dense plantation to date by using the Miyawaki technique INS Hamla site in Mumbai, Malad, after the makeover.(Green Yatra/Indian Navy) A 2,500 square (sq) metres (m), or 0.6-acre, of barren patch in Malad in Mumbai has transformed into a mini urban forest with seven to nine feet (ft) trees in less than nine months. Between January and September, the Indian Navy, along with environment group Green Yatra, developed Mumbai’s largest dense plantation to date by using the Miyawaki technique (see box) on a plot in front of the main campus of Indian Navy Station (INS) at Hamla in Marve-Malad. Forests grown under the Miyawaki method – developed by Japanese botanist and plant ecology expert Dr. Akira Miyawaki – have improved carbon-dioxide absorption, have reduced noise and dust , and added more green surface area, as compared to monoculture plantation. Plants grow 10 times ...