EQ: Warm Winters, Green Cremations, Illegal Logging, and More

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E-India

• Warmest ever winter in India:
The recorded temperatures since November are leading meteorologists to predict that this winter will be India’s warmest one till date.

E-Mage

• Draft National Wildlife Action Plan released:
The government has released the draft NWAP for 2017 – 2031 for comments. The draft plan is the third of its kind since 1983 and attempts to balance traditional concerns like poaching with new-age worries like climate change.

E-Video

• The ground is shifting beneath your feet:
Did you know that the Earth’s coastlines are far from unchanging?
Take a look at a video showing you what our planet looked like 600 million years ago and what it’s likely to look like 100 million years from now:

E-Waste

• Kolkata’s iconic Victoria Memorial’s going green:
The Victoria Memorial authorities have set up a waste compost plant on its grounds. The plant is expected to convert organic waste collected from the site to compost and manure.

E-Renewables

• $1.25 billion green energy fund on the anvil:
The government is setting up a fund for financing renewable projects in order to make such projects more viable.

E-Law

• Explore “green” methods of cremation:
Worried that traditional wood based cremation practices are polluting the environment, the NGT has directed the government to work towards electricity and CNG based cremations.

E-International

• Solar lights up:
As Morocco switches on phase one of the world’s largest solar plant and Japan begins work on the world’s largest floating solar park, a new report looks at the factors still limiting the growth of solar energy.

E-Nature

• Illegal logging as a global concern:
A new report looks at the menace of illegal logging, a major cause of forest deforestation and degradation. Increasing violence by the illegal loggers threaten irreplaceable forests and threatened wildlife species worldwide.
• 10%: The percentage of global timber trade accounted for by illegal logging.

E-Technology

• Navy showcases ship running on Biofuel:
In furtherance of its “green roadmap”, the Indian Navy has built a bio-fuel powered patrol craft. The ship was shown at last week’s International Fleet Review at the Vizag harbour.

E-Quiz

• Which state is the Sariska Tiger Reserve located in?
(a) West Bengal
(b) Jammu and Kashmir
(c) Rajasthan
(d) Goa

(Shalini Iyengar is a lawyer and Research Associate at the International University College, Turin.)