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FSSAI’s GMO Threshold According to the Coalition for a GM-Free India, one per cent threshold for genetically modified organisms (GMO) in food crops imported into India, is unacceptably high. The threshold has been set by Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). In August 2020, FSSAI had issued the order that 24 food crops …
Reviewing GM Cotton In India Much of the cotton cultivated until the 20th century was of the indigenous ‘desi’ variety, Gossypium arboreum. Hybrid varieties of G. hirsutum entered India in 1990s. However, hybrid varieties were unable to resist local pests. More fertilizers and pesticides were required for cultivation of such varieties. Cotton suffers from plenty …
Reviewing GM Cotton In India; Commission To Tackle Pollution In NCR; Stubble Burning Read More »
Action Plan For Vulture Conservation Uttar Pradesh, Tripura, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu will get a vulture conservation and breeding centre each, according to the Action Plan for Vulture Conservation 2020-2025. The plan has also suggested that new veterinary non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) be tested on vultures before their commercial release. The action plan was …
Action Plan For Vulture Conservation; Project Lion; Lion Relocation Read More »
Tarballs According to a study published in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 28 per cent of particles collected from the air samples from a research station in the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau were tarballs. Tarballs are small light-absorbing, carbonaceous particles formed due to burning of biomass or fossil fuels that deposit on snow and ice. The …
Tarballs; Water Crisis In Cities; Biodiversity Loss & Forests Read More »
Chinese Pink Dolphins Chinese pink dolphins are making a comeback in the Pearl river estuary, one of the most heavily industrialised areas on Earth. The Pearl River estuary includes Hong Kong, Macau as well as the mainland Chinese cities of Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Dongguan. Some 22 million people live in the area. Pink dolphins have …
Chinese Pink Dolphins; Hottest September Since 1880 Read More »
World Risk Index (WRI) 2020 India was ‘poorly prepared’ to deal with ‘climate reality’, due to which it was more vulnerable to extreme natural disasters, according to the World Risk Index (WRI) 2020. India ranked 89th among 181 countries on the WRI 2020. The country was fourth-most-at- risk in south Asia on the index, after …
World Risk Index (WRI) 2020; Greenland Ice Melting Fastest Read More »
Jasmonate (JA) Targeting a specific plant hormone called Jasmonate (JA) would help rice plants have greater tolerance to potassium deficiency. This will in turn, improving rice productivity, a new study has suggested. JA is often associated with the plant’s defence against biotic factors like insects, pests and other pathogens. The overexpression of a gene called …
Jasmonate (JA); Medicanes; Komodo Dragon; Arsenic-Affected Habitations Read More »
Hydrogen Fuel Japan is set to commercialise international transport run on hydrogen fuel as well as promote its use for power generation by 2020. Japan signed the first project of this kind with the Australian government in 2014. The aim was to demonstrate the viability of gasifying brown coal in the Latrobe Valley, Australia, to …
Hydrogen Fuel; First World Solar Technology Summit (WSTS); Mammalian Extinctions Read More »
Red fox The red fox, one of the most widespread carnivores in the world, is spreading in Norway’s alpine areas at the cost of the Arctic or blue fox, aided by anthropological changes, a study has said. Lars Rod-Eriksen, a researcher in terrestrial ecology at NINA, the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, found that more …
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