Blue Economy vision and ecological responsibility
India’s ambitious Blue Economy vision is reshaping the way the country engages with its vast marine resources.
India’s ambitious Blue Economy vision is reshaping the way the country engages with its vast marine resources.
In 2015, the United Nations outlined 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aimed at eradicating poverty, protecting our planet, and ensuring equality for all. These goals address a wide range of global challenges, including climate change, the biodiversity crisis, and pressing health issues like antibiotic resistance and cancer. Biological scientists play a crucial role in tackling these challenges and can also benefit from the diverse career opportunities available to them.
Even as greenhouse gasses are increasing unprecedentedly, it can decrease rainfall in the equatorial region as well as affect India's biodiversity hotspots, according to a new study on Wednesday.
In a significant move to curb illegal deforestation and preserve the biodiversity of Himachal Pradesh, the state government has taken…
Environmental leaders of 185 countries have agreed at the Global Environment Facility’s seventh assembly to launch an innovative new fund…
The Union Minister said the country's balance sheet in implementing the Aichi targets is pro-active and forward looking and the nation is on track to meeting its commitments.
A coral reef is a type of biotic relief which develops in tropical waters. World's coral reef area comprises about six lakh square kilometre in the ocean.
The draft, unfortunately has clubbed wetlands within the terrestrial for land and sea, a trend which has continued since the previous Aichi Targets.
Industrial development and mangrove conservation need not be mutually exclusive. Well thought out policies can even reverse mangrove cover loss.
The landmark post-2020 global biodiversity framework is due to be adopted at part two of the UN Biodiversity Conference in May 2022, following further formal negotiations in January 2022.
