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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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Topic: environment

Trees are growing faster, dying younger across the world

Roel Brienen -
From tropical forests to the Arctic region, tree growth is showing dramatic changes.

Boy or girl? The answer led to California wildfire that burnt down over 8,600 acres

Unnati Sharma -
Gender-reveal parties in vogue since 2008, but people have now started taking extreme measures during such events, with often other disastrous consequences besides wildfires.

Hurdle to investment or disaster in the making? Environmental rules change sparks debate

Swansy Afonso -
Modi govt argues environmental impact assessment rules are too onerous & deter investment in an economy that shrank almost 24% in Q1.

Modi govt’s 2020 draft makes EIA a mere formality, fails on transparency, study shows

Shyama Kuriakose -
An ideal way forward would be to enact a standalone law on the EIA given its position of importance in India’s regulatory framework on environment.

Scientists in Japan revive microbes buried in rocks over 100 million years ago

Mohana Basu -
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week.

If India starts acting on the yearly floods in Bihar and Assam, that would be true nationalism

Yogendra Yadav -
Attention deficit of the public, policy dyslexia and lack of political will lie at the roots of the recurring tragedy of flooding in Assam and Bihar.

Parliament to middle class: These are the 8 failings of India coronavirus has exposed

Dilip Mandal -
The Covid outbreak has shown that right to equality is only India’s official position. A nation that can’t cry together, isn’t a nation.

70-million-year-old fossils of one of world’s last megaraptors discovered in Argentina

Mohana Basu -
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

NASA unveils document to guide behaviour on the moon and in space

Mohana Basu -
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

India’s environmental laws require a fundamental shift. Like an independent regulator

Deva Prasad M -
The draft Environment Impact Assessment notification, 2020 proposes to relax the follow-up compliance monitoring frequency, thereby weakening India’s regulatory governance.
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Climate change doesn’t just affect poor people, farmers. Cities and banks aren’t safe either

Renuka Sane -
In India, only 17% of public sector banks and 25% of private sector banks claimed to have an internal strategy for integrating climate risks into their risk management framework.

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Economy

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

+TFP TCA Sharad Raghavan -
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

Defence

India, Oman hold 5th annual high-level meeting to boost maritime security

ThePrint Team -
Both the governments expressed their commitment to strengthening their maritime cooperation to strengthen the maritime safety and security framework in the region.

National Interest

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

Shekhar Gupta -
While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.

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