Taklamakan Desert: Greening, Carbon Uptake and the Water Limit
Why in news? A 7 September Moneycontrol report revisited China’s planting programme around the Taklamakan Desert and its disputed climate benefits. ...
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Why in news? A 7 September Moneycontrol report revisited China’s planting programme around the Taklamakan Desert and its disputed climate benefits. ...
Why in news? A four-member team from Munnar reached Ramjak’s summit on 10 September 2026, according to its account in The Hindu. The newspaper repor...
Why in news?Andhra Pradesh stopped the Chennai-bound supply from Kandaleru reservoir on 10 September, citing low storage, according to a 15 September ...
Why in news? A seminar organised by the Cochin Port Employees Organisation called for the revival of Willingdon Island’s economic role. The New Indi...
Why in news? A major search continued in the Java Sea after the Indonesian passenger vessel Virgo Transport 8 capsized on 13 September 2026. It had be...
Why in news? Three students were swept away in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo River near Devri on 11 September 2026, according to Press Trust of India. Polic...
Why in news?Uttar Pradesh filed an additional response about the Solani floodplain before the National Green Tribunal on 7 September 2026. The filing ...
Why in news?A 10 September explainer revisited how Mississippi River levees affect Louisiana’s wetlands. The issue concerns a longstanding trade-off...
Why in news?A government research announcement on 10 September highlighted a long climate record from Bakhira Lake. Scientists examined sediments to r...
Why in news?A bus left a mountain road on Cape Verde’s Fogo Island on 5 September 2026. The crash killed 25 people and injured 14 others, according ...
Why in news?Anak Krakatau erupted again on 6 September 2026 and sent ash into busy Indonesian airspace. Authorities temporarily closed Soekarno-Hatta ...
Why in news?The Subarnarekha flooded low-lying parts of Odisha’s Balasore district in early September. More than 45,000 people across twenty-two gra...