Environment and geography current affairs for UPSC

Tigers leave reserves every night, and so do the traders who hunt them. Is protection still fenced in?

If the sea swallows a country's land, does the country, and its ocean zone, disappear too?

Can a mine that tribal gram sabhas rejected in 2013 be reopened, and who gets to decide?

Can Arunachal's big dams be built without paying too high a price in forests?

Crops are wilting, but the drought manual says wait. Why?

Conservation zone or livelihood threat? A decade-old fight returns to the Assembly.

Faster port building, or weaker oversight of coasts?

India pumps more groundwater than any other country. For how long?

India's per capita emissions are under half the world average. Does that settle who must cut first?

The monsoon is leaving on time, but 15% short. What decides when it 'withdraws', and what comes next?

A mark on your land record for burning stubble. Will it work?

Farmers in Punjab and Haryana paid for carbon stored in their soil.

Blending ethanol was meant to save money, crude and carbon. What if lower mileage eats into all three?

A dam pending for about four decades finally has six signatures. Who gains, who loses land, and who pays?

Kutch's bustards lay infertile eggs. Can egg swaps, fenced grassland and buried power lines save them?

Mountains are said to pull carbon out of the air as rocks weather. In the upper Indus, the balance runs the other way.

How did five critically endangered great apes from Southeast Asia end up in a forest in Odisha?

How can a State short of rain be under water? Look downstream at the Ganga and Farakka, not north at Nepal.

It adds under 1% of a city's PM2.5, yet poor neighbourhoods breathe its smoke. Why does winter make it worse?

Nepal emits almost nothing, yet a warming world just buried its valleys. Who should pay?

Lucknow tops a national clean air ranking, yet its air is over twice the legal limit. How can both be true?

If the forest rights law never asked for gram sabha consent, why are hydro projects waiting years for it?

Can a warning reach a mountain village before a glacial lake empties into the valley below?

If 1.5°C can no longer be held, can the world go above it and still come back down?

A record-hot August, a 14% rain deficit and a strong El Niño: how bad can September get?

Karnataka puts its drought loss at ₹46,324 crore. How much can the Centre's disaster fund actually pay?

About 140 bustards survive in the wild. Can birds raised in captivity cope with power lines and predators?

Can a project that broke the law be cleared afterwards? The Centre reopens pending cases but bars new ones.

How can the air quality index improve while the main pollutants get worse? The answer is in how the index is built.

A dry June, a strong El Niño and a late rally: how did India end up with a 'deficient' monsoon?

Each electric car will count as three in a carmaker's fleet average. Will that speed up India's shift away from petrol?