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UPSC Mains Answer Writing Practice – Insights SECURE: 10 October 2024

  The Insights IAS Secure Initiative for UPSC Mains Answer Writing practice enables you to practice daily answer writing, enhancing your skills and boosting your scores with regular feedback, expert tips, and strategies. Let consistency be the hallmark of your preparation and utilize UPSC Mains Answer Writing practice initiative wisely   Click on EACH question to …

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UPSC Mains Answer Writing Practice – Insights SECURE: 20 August 2024

  The Insights IAS Secure Initiative for UPSC Mains Answer Writing practice enables you to practice daily answer writing, enhancing your skills and boosting your scores with regular feedback, expert tips, and strategies. Let consistency be the hallmark of your preparation and utilize UPSC Mains Answer Writing practice initiative wisely   Click on EACH question to …

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FAO Launches Updated Guidelines to Tackle Extreme Wildfires

Syllabus: Disaster Management Source: FAO  Context: The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has updated its Integrated Fire Management (IFM) voluntary guidelines to address wildfire risks, incorporating new strategies developed by the Global Fire Management Hub (GFMH), launched by FAO and UNEP in 2023.   Explanation: Integrated Fire Management Voluntary Guidelines: Principles and Strategic Actions is …

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Economic Survey and Budget: Global Approach to Climate Change and India’s Perspective

Syllabus: Environmental pollution and degradation, Environmental impact assessment, Conservation, and climate change.  Source: PIB, IE Context: The Economic Survey 2023-24 highlights the flaws in the current global approach to climate change, emphasizing the need for developing countries to adopt a localized perspective in their climate strategies.   Definition and Historical Instances The current global approach …

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Recently Supreme Court has recognised the right to be free from the adverse effects of climate change in India. Discuss how India can effectively enforce this right, considering its developmental context.

Topic: Environment Conservation Q4. Recently Supreme Court has recognised the right to be free from the adverse effects of climate change in India. Discuss how India can effectively enforce this right, considering its developmental context. (250 words) Difficulty level: Moderate Reference: The Hindu Why the question: Supreme Court has recently recognized the right to ‘be …

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ALTÉRRA Fund

Facts for Prelims (FFP)   Source: Reuters Context: UAE President Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, announced the creation of a $30 billion climate fund named ALTÉRRA. The fund aims to attract $250 billion in investment by the end of the decade, with $25 billion allocated to climate …

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Tropicalisation

Facts for Prelims (FFP)   Source: TOI Context: Climate change is causing a significant global phenomenon known as tropicalisation, where tropical species in the ocean are moving towards the poles, while temperate species are retreating. This mass movement of marine life is driven by rising sea temperatures and marine heat waves due to climate change. …

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Role of Rural women in the fight against climate change

Content for Mains Enrichment (CME)   Source: DTE   Various techniques used by women with examples are:   There is a need to recognize and include the voices of rural women in climate action efforts, underscoring their valuable lessons and the importance of collaborative approaches for building climate resilience. Usage: The examples can be used …

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Vibrio vulnificus

Facts for Prelims (FFP)   Source: DTE  Context: Vibrio vulnificus, a marine bacterium, could pose a major threat to coastal populations due to ideal conditions created by climate change. This bacterium can cause life-threatening infections and has a high mortality rate, particularly among those with weakened immune systems or comorbidities.    Issues: Underreported Cases: Researchers …

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Ancient pathogens released from melting ice could wreak havoc on the world

  Source: DTE  Context: The article discusses the potential risks associated with the release of ancient pathogens from melting ice in response to global warming. For example, recently a 30,000-year-old virus was revived from Siberian permafrost, and an anthrax outbreak was linked to the thawing of spores in western Siberia. The warming climate, particularly in …

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Ancient soil from beneath a mile of ice in Greenland offers warnings for the future

Facts for Prelims (FFP)   Source: The Conservation  Context: Approximately 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free, and evidence suggests it was covered in spruce trees and scrubby tundra. Scientists have now determined the precise date of this ice-free period to be around 416,000 years ago, lasting for about 14,000 years. Researchers extracted …

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Heat stroke

GS Paper 1  Syllabus: Important geophysical phenomenon/Disaster management   Source: IE  Context: 13 people died due to heatstroke after they attended a large public gathering in the open in Kharghar, Navi Mumbai.     Why did a heat stroke event happen in Maharashtra? Two different observatories recorded 34.1 and 38 degrees Celsius as the maximum …

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The link between ‘flash droughts’ and climate change

GS Paper 1  Syllabus: Important Geophysical Phenomena   Source: IE    Context: According to a new study, flash droughts are becoming more common and faster to develop around the world, and human-caused climate change is a major reason.     Highlights of the study: Flash droughts occurred more often than slower ones in tropical/humid places …

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