1)Climate change impact: Sunderbans steadily losing its famed mangroves :- The mangrove forest cover in the Indian Sunderbans has been depleting alarmingly over the past few decades.
The loss in the mangrove forest in the Indian Sunderbans is about 5.5 %.
“The continuation of this process in response to climate change and sea level rise poses a serious threat to the carbon sequestration potential and other ecosystem services of this mangrove forest in future."
Rise in the Sea Level is a driving Factor For :-
Carbon sequestration describes long-term storage of carbon dioxide or other forms of carbon to either mitigate or defer global warming and avoid dangerous climate change.
Carbon Sequestration occurs in :-
UPSC 2017 Question:-
In the context of mitigating the impending global warming due to anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide, which of the following can be the potential sites for carbon sequestration?
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Solution: D
One other important Fact is that they have Pneumatophores which are specialized aerial roots for gaseous exchange in the saline water conditions.
Some Mangroves areas in India:- Pichavaram (Tamil Nadu), Bay of Bengal, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Gujrat (Gulf of Kutch), Bhitarkanika (Odisha).
2)Anti-hunger activist Ankit Kawatra has been awarded the Queen’s Young Leaders Award for 2017 by Queen Elizabeth II at a ceremony in the Buckingham Palace.
The Queen’s Young Leaders Award recognises exceptional work towards solving hunger and malnutrition in India.
3)Germany has legalised same-sex marriage in line with a host of other European countries.
France, Britain and Spain also have legalised the Same Sex Marriage.
4) A sunday Story on Antarctica came today in The Hindu and in that some Geographical Terms were there :-
i) Nunataks :- A nunatak (from Inuit nunataq) is an exposed, often rocky element of a ridge, mountain, or peak not covered with ice or snow within (or at the edge of) an ice field or glacier. They are also called glacial islands.
ii)Moraines are accumulations of dirt and rocks that have fallen onto the glacier surface or have been pushed along by the glacier as it moves.
Some Biodiversity of Antarctica:-
Small invertebrates (nematodes, springtails, and tardigrades) vascular plants, lichen, fungi, mosses and algae.
They also serve as breeding ground for sea birds (including the Adelie penguins) and elephant seals.
The loss in the mangrove forest in the Indian Sunderbans is about 5.5 %.
“The continuation of this process in response to climate change and sea level rise poses a serious threat to the carbon sequestration potential and other ecosystem services of this mangrove forest in future."
Rise in the Sea Level is a driving Factor For :-
- coastal erosion,
- coastal flooding, and
- an increase in the number of tidal creeks.
Carbon sequestration describes long-term storage of carbon dioxide or other forms of carbon to either mitigate or defer global warming and avoid dangerous climate change.
Carbon Sequestration occurs in :-
- Forests
- Oceans
- Abandoned and uneconomic coal seams
- Depleted oil and gas reservoirs
- Subterranean deep saline formations
UPSC 2017 Question:-
In the context of mitigating the impending global warming due to anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide, which of the following can be the potential sites for carbon sequestration?
- Abandoned and uneconomic coal seams
- Depleted oil and gas reservoirs
- Subterranean deep saline formations
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Solution: D
One other important Fact is that they have Pneumatophores which are specialized aerial roots for gaseous exchange in the saline water conditions.
Some Mangroves areas in India:- Pichavaram (Tamil Nadu), Bay of Bengal, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Gujrat (Gulf of Kutch), Bhitarkanika (Odisha).
2)Anti-hunger activist Ankit Kawatra has been awarded the Queen’s Young Leaders Award for 2017 by Queen Elizabeth II at a ceremony in the Buckingham Palace.
The Queen’s Young Leaders Award recognises exceptional work towards solving hunger and malnutrition in India.
3)Germany has legalised same-sex marriage in line with a host of other European countries.
France, Britain and Spain also have legalised the Same Sex Marriage.
4) A sunday Story on Antarctica came today in The Hindu and in that some Geographical Terms were there :-
i) Nunataks :- A nunatak (from Inuit nunataq) is an exposed, often rocky element of a ridge, mountain, or peak not covered with ice or snow within (or at the edge of) an ice field or glacier. They are also called glacial islands.
ii)Moraines are accumulations of dirt and rocks that have fallen onto the glacier surface or have been pushed along by the glacier as it moves.
Some Biodiversity of Antarctica:-
Small invertebrates (nematodes, springtails, and tardigrades) vascular plants, lichen, fungi, mosses and algae.
They also serve as breeding ground for sea birds (including the Adelie penguins) and elephant seals.
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