Environment & Ecology Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Tue, 12 Aug 2025

• The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change marked World Elephant Day on 12 August 2025 with a national event at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, highlighting that India is home to about 60% of the world's wild elephants.

Sun, 10 Aug 2025

• World Lion Day was celebrated on 10 August 2025 at Barda Wildlife Sanctuary in Gujarat's Devbhumi Dwarka district, where Union Minister Bhupender Yadav said India's Asiatic lion population has grown to 891 from 674 in 2020.

Fri, 08 Aug 2025

• The Ministry of Heavy Industries on 8 August 2025 extended the PM E-DRIVE scheme by two years, from 31 March 2026 to 31 March 2028, within the same outlay of ₹10,900 crore; support for e-2Ws, e-rickshaws and e-3Ws still ends on 31 March 2026.

Tue, 05 Aug 2025

• A flash flood and debris slide along the Kheer Ganga swept through Dharali village in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district on the afternoon of 5 August 2025, killing at least four people with dozens feared missing.

Mon, 04 Aug 2025

• NITI Aayog on 4 August 2025 launched the India Electric Mobility Index (IEMI) to track States/UTs on EV transition and a report titled 'Unlocking a $200 Billion Opportunity: Electric Vehicles in India'.

Sat, 02 Aug 2025

• Union Ministers Bhupender Yadav and Manohar Lal launched the 'Matri Van' initiative in Gurugram on 2 August 2025, a theme-based urban forest over 750 acres in the Aravalli hill area under the 'Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam' programme.

Fri, 01 Aug 2025

• A Bose Institute study highlighted by DST on 1 August 2025 found toxic heavy metals in non-precipitating clouds, with clouds over the Eastern Himalayas about 1.5 times more polluted.

Thu, 31 Jul 2025

• On 31 July 2025, the Environment Ministry said Delhi's average AQI for July 2025 was 78 ('Satisfactory'), the best for the month since 2018, with 29 'Satisfactory' days.
• On 31 July 2025, Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated an indigenously built 1 MW green hydrogen plant at Deendayal Port Authority, Kandla, Gujarat, the first module of a 10 MW project.

Wed, 30 Jul 2025

• On 30 July 2025, Ramsar COP15 at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, adopted India's resolution on 'Promoting Sustainable Lifestyles for the Wise Use of Wetlands'.

Tue, 29 Jul 2025

• On 29 July 2025, Union Minister Bhupender Yadav presided over Global Tiger Day celebrations at the National Zoological Park, New Delhi.
• On 29 July 2025, the Commission for Air Quality Management announced a dedicated cell at SAS Nagar (Mohali), Punjab to oversee paddy stubble management throughout the year.

Mon, 28 Jul 2025

• On 28 July 2025, Union Minister Jitendra Singh launched 14 products and initiatives at the 19th Foundation Day of the Ministry of Earth Sciences in New Delhi.

Sun, 27 Jul 2025

• On the morning of 27 July 2025, a stampede broke out on the stairway route to the Mansa Devi temple in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, after a rumour of an electric current.

Fri, 25 Jul 2025

• On 25 July 2025, a Government school building collapsed in Jhalawar district, Rajasthan; NHRC, citing a media report of seven children dead and 28 injured, issued notices.

Thu, 24 Jul 2025

• On 24 July 2025, Jal Shakti Minister C.R. Patil chaired a meeting on the environmental flow of the Ganga and its tributaries and called for evaluating the impact of the 2018 Environmental Flow Notification.

Wed, 23 Jul 2025

• On 23 July 2025 in Goa, Goa Shipyard Ltd launched 'Samudra Prachet', the second of two indigenous Pollution Control Vessels for the Indian Coast Guard.

Tue, 22 Jul 2025

• On 22 July 2025, the Ministry of Earth Sciences said the Winter Fog Experiment (WiFEX), launched in winter 2015 at IGI Airport, New Delhi, had completed ten years.

Sun, 20 Jul 2025

• On 20 July 2025, the Home Ministry said Union Home Minister Amit Shah had directed the formation of a multi-sectoral central team to study the rising frequency and intensity of natural disasters in Himachal Pradesh.

Sat, 19 Jul 2025

• On 19 July 2025, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi inaugurated the 435 MW Gorbea Solar Power Project, developed by Zelestra India, in Rajasthan.

Fri, 18 Jul 2025

• On 18 July 2025, the Department of Science and Technology reported that MACS-Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, had discovered a new lichen species, Allographa effusosoredica, in the Western Ghats.

Thu, 17 Jul 2025

• On 17 July 2025 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, President Droupadi Murmu conferred the Swachh Survekshan 2024-25 awards hosted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
• On 17 July 2025, DST said ARIES scientists had for the first time captured high-resolution, continuous online measurements of key greenhouse gases at a high-altitude site in Nainital.

Wed, 16 Jul 2025

• On 16 July 2025 in New Delhi, Union Jal Shakti Minister C R Patil met Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu and Telangana CM A Revanth Reddy on water issues between the two states.

Mon, 14 Jul 2025

• On 14 July 2025, MNRE said non-fossil sources made up 50.08% of India's 484.82 GW installed capacity as of 30 June 2025, five years ahead of the 2030 target.

Fri, 11 Jul 2025

• On 11 July 2025 in New Delhi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a high-level review of Yamuna rejuvenation and directed that sewage treatment capacity for the river be raised to 1,500 MGD by 2028.
• On 11 July 2025, the Ministry of Heavy Industries launched India's first incentive scheme for electric trucks under PM E-DRIVE, with up to ₹9.6 lakh per vehicle.

Thu, 10 Jul 2025

• On 10 July 2025, the Centre approved the release of ₹1,066.80 crore as its SDRF share to Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Kerala and Uttarakhand, hit by floods and landslides.
• On 10 July 2025, DST said BSIP Lucknow scientists, studying ~4-million-year-old leaf fossils from Kashmir's Karewa sediments, linked the valley's shift from a warm, humid subtropical climate to the uplift of the Pir Panjal Range.
• On 10 July 2025, the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry highlighted Agra's Kuberpur legacy dumpsite, where about 1.9 million metric tonnes of waste were cleared and about 47 acres reclaimed under SBM-Urban.