Environment – Medium Level – GK Questions

The movement successfully opposed a dam on the Kunthipuzha River that would have submerged the pristine Silent Valley evergreen forest.

Medha Patkar led the Narmada Bachao Andolan, protesting against the large dam projects across the Narmada river and displacement of tribals.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) publishes the Living Planet Report, measuring the state of global biological diversity.

IUCN, the global authority on the environment and sustainable development, has its secretariat in Gland, Switzerland.

Greenpeace was founded in Vancouver, Canada, in 1971 by activists protesting US nuclear testing at Amchitka.

UNEP is the only UN headquarters located in a developing country, situated in Nairobi, Kenya.

Tides are generated by the gravitational interaction between the Earth, Moon, and Sun, with the Moon having the dominant effect.

China leads the world by a significant margin in both onshore and offshore installed wind power capacity.

Since the plants absorbed CO2 from the atmosphere to grow, burning them releases roughly the same amount back, maintaining a closed carbon loop.

The heat emanating from the Earth's core is virtually inexhaustible on human timescales, classifying geothermal energy as renewable.

Hemis National Park in Ladakh is the largest national park in India, covering an area of over 4,400 sq km.

Silent Valley is located in the Nilgiri Hills, within the Palakkad District of Kerala.

The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, spanning Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka, was the first to be set up in India.

The Sundarbans, spanning India and Bangladesh, is famous for its unique population of swimming Royal Bengal Tigers.

It was initially named Hailey National Park to protect the Bengal tiger and was later renamed in honor of Jim Corbett.

It consists of phumdis (floating biomass) on Loktak Lake and is the last natural habitat of the Sangai (brow-antlered deer).

Agenda 21 is a non-binding, voluntary action plan of the UN with regard to sustainable development globally, nationally, and locally.

The Vienna Convention established the framework for international cooperation to protect the ozone layer, which led to the Montreal Protocol.

The 1992 Rio conference is widely referred to as the Earth Summit, leading to the creation of the UNFCCC, CBD, and UNCCD.

CITES ensures that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten the survival of the species.