UPSC MAINS 2019 CURRENT AFFAIRS
ENVIRONMENT
POLLUTION
Uranium Contamination in Ground Water
Dealing with Petcoke
Construction and Demolition(C&D) Waste
Emission Standards for Thermal Plants
Supreme Court Ruling on Firecrackers
Enforcement of BS-VI standards in India
Air pollution report – WHO
National Clean Air Programme
UP Sludge Management Systems - CSE Study
Effects of Drugs Discharged into the Yamuna
Maharashtra Bans Plastics
Concern’s with Regulating Plastic Ban
Pragmatic Steps towards Plastic Ban
Breathe India
GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Impacts of Anthropocene Era
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference
Rulebook for the Paris Agreement
Assessing the Progress of Paris Agreement
Rulebook at Katowice - Concerns for Developing Countries
World Bank Report on Climate Change Impacts
IPCC Draft Report on Global Warming
IMD Statement on Climate of India in
Climate Change and India's Nutritional Security
Cross-border Environmentalism
Dead Zones
Montreal Protocol Assessment
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Moving to Methanol
Re-vitalising Ethanol blending
Pradhan Mantri Jl-VAN yojana
Off-Shore Wind Energy Project
GOVERNMENT POLICIES/INTERVENTIONS
Assessing National Mission for Green India
Concerns with Coastal Conservation Measures
Cauvery Basin - Ecological concerns
Draft India Cooling Action Plan
New Coastal Regulation Zone Notification
Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment Report
Felling of Trees in Delhi
Eviction of Forest Dwellers - Forest Rights Act
NGT ruling on INO Observatory
Human-Tiger conflict
Restriction on Highways - Bandipur Tiger Reserve
SC Order on Nilgiris Elephant Corridor
Private Conservancy Rules
Deep Ocean Mission
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
NITI Aayog’s Report on Water Management
Water Stress in India
Water Theft in India
Ground Water Extraction Guidelines
Problem of Ghost Gear - Fishing
Composite Water Management Index
BIODIVERSITY
Reviving Principle of 'Commons'
Declining Megafauna species
Decline in Insect Population
Inter-Species Social Behaviour
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Defining a National Disaster
Reasons behind Kerala Flood - Post Analysis
Gadgil Panel Report and Kerala Floods
Kaziranga and Brahmaputra Floods
MoEFCC Report on Forest Fires
California forest fires
Disaster Management - Cyclone Gaja
CAG report on Chennai floods
National Disaster Risk Index
GEOGRAPHY
Polar Vortex
Earthquake Swarm in Palghar Maharashtra
Magnetic North Pole Shifting
Dard Aryans of Ladakh
Inter-Linking of Rivers
S-W Monsoon - Northeast Deficit and Overall Rainfall
Indonesia Tsunami - Causes
Concerns with IMD’s Prediction
Flooding and Soil Degradation
Third Pole
660 km Boundary
Deep Earth
Blue Hole
Waterspouts
Reasons for Intense Rainfall in India
Monsoon and Pollution
Holocene Epoch
Disappearance of Marine Clouds
Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods