The objective of the National Mission for a 🌿🇮🇳“Green India” is to protect and increase forest cover in the country. Why is it so important to increase the number of trees and forests?
Gaura Devi and Sudesha Devi are two women activists who led a movement in the 1970s to hug trees and protect them from loggers, thus preventing them from destroying the forest. What was this movement called?
In 2017, the Ganga River sent 120,000 tons of plastic into the ocean🌊which is the second-most in the world. Plastic pollution is becoming a problem because it can last up to hundreds of years. Why does plastic last so long?
While climate change affects us, we can also change how we respond to it. What is it called when we adjust the way we act to respond to the events happening around us?
One reason that it’s important to slow down climate change is that it affects our access to the natural resource we need, such as water. Currently, India has 17% of the world’s population and __________ of the world’s fresh water supply. 🏞
Standing up for the environment can sometimes be tough and takes a whole community to advocate for it. But it always starts with one person. For instance, what do you think the campaign ‘Narmada Bachao Andolan’ was about? 🗣
Take a look at the picture. It’s a satellite image showing how we went from having lots of aerosols in our air in 2016 to much less now since Corona lockdown (March 25, 2020). What could be the reason behind this drop? 📉
India’s first National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) was launched in 2008 in order to address climate change as a nation. Why is it important to have action plans? 📝
Activists come from different backgrounds and cultures, but all share the same goal for making the earth a better place. What is unique about Chaitali Shiva Gavit?
If we can stay under a 1.5 degree Celcius 🌡increase in temperature across the world, compared to what the temperature was in the 1900s, we can limit the damage. What will we avoid IF we limit the increase of global temperature to 1.5 °C?
Without the ozone layer in the stratosphere to protect us from ultraviolet rays from the sun, we wouldn’t be alive ⛱. Before the 1980s, holes in the ozone layer were being formed by:
