Monthly Environment & Ecology Current Affairs – July Edition | Mukesh Jha for UPSC
Published: 2025-08-30
Status:
Analyzed
Published: 2025-08-30
Status:
Analyzed
Predictions from this Video
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Horticultural produce will decline and farmer income will be impacted if bee populations continue to dwindle.
"Otherwise our horicultural produce which even though has crossed the milestone of around 330 uh million metric tonses is going to face a decline and eventually impact the farmer income as well."
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Heatwave and drought cycles will become more frequent and common due to increasing warming rates.
"so the rate of warming is increasing and as a consequence the heatwave cycles the drought cycles they are becoming much more frequent and much more common along the way as well."
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Increased ocean heating will trigger mass migrations of marine species away from the tropics.
"Then increased amount of heating will also trigger mass migrations. Migrations away from the tropics"
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Increased ocean heating will lead to more intense low pressure systems, generating frequent and devastating cyclones and exacerbating disasters.
"Once the low pressure becomes intense, it always generates frequent and devastating cyclones. So as a consequence, the disaster caused gets exaggerated."
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Mass coral bleaching events will become more frequent and prominent in tropical regions in the future.
"So that will get more frequent and prominent as we move ahead."
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Floods, cloud bursts, heat waves, cyclones, and drought cycles will become more common and frequent.
"Extreme climate events like what? For example, you can take the case of floods become more common. Cloud bursts become more common. Heat waves they become more frequent. Cyclones become very common. drought cycles they also end up getting more common."
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Glacial melt will lead to economic disasters.
"Glacial melt will also induce the economic disasters."
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Glacial melt will cause short-term flooding but in the long run, will lead to seasonality of rivers.
"as these glaciers melt in the short term they will cause flooding but over a long run what do these glaciers do? The glacial melt it causes seasonality of the rivers."
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Seasonal rivers will lead to greater water conflicts/wars and reduced income for populations dependent on riverine plains, creating a large low-income demographic in regions like South Asia.
"There will be greater conflict and more number of water wars would be waged and also the larger plane areas which have typically for generations and centuries relied upon the fertility of land for income level now their income source will go away. So that creates a large population of low income group and demography in the country or in any region of South Asia."
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Disturbed water flow from glacial melt will limit hydroelectric potential.
"Now if the flow of water becomes highly disturbed then you can imagine that even the hydroelectric potential which can be generated is absolutely limited in its reach."
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Rising population and increased warming will hinder the ability to supply sufficient electricity.
"So that means with the rising population and increased amount of warming you are not able to support or supply enough amount of electricity to them as well."
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Ice-free conditions will trigger more Western Disturbances, with frequencies continuing until August.
"this ice-free conditions they trigger greater amount of western disturbance and the frequencies keep on coming all the way till the month of August as well."
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Glacial melt will lead to increased short-term flooding and more common landslides and mass movements on hill slopes.
"due to melting of glaciers you have increased flooding for the short term. Okay. Now when you have the glacial melt and more amount of water flowing down the slopes, what does that trigger? larger amount of mass movements. So landslides become very common in the hill slopes."
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Rivers becoming seasonal due to glacial melt will lead to greater conflict.
"rivers become seasonal. As a consequence of this there will be greater conflict more conflict."
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Glacial melt and river seasonality will impact agricultural productivity in plain areas.
"Then this will also impact agricultural productivity in the plane areas."
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Weakening high pressure due to glacial melt will lead to distorted rainfall patterns, with increased rainfall and flooding in the northeastern part of the country, and prolonged droughts in the northwestern and central parts.
"Once that high pressure weakens that means you will experience distorted pattern of rainfall in various parts of the country. Northeastern part of the country might start receiving more frequent rainfall and much higher amount of flooding whereas northwestern and central part of the country might experience prolonged drought conditions and drought seasons as well."
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Glacial melt will impact overall water and energy security.
"water security and energy security these will also be impacted."
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Unless early warning systems are deployed, losses from disasters will be massive.
"Now unless and until we deploy these early warning systems the loss which we are facing is going to be very massive."
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If Donald Trump is re-elected ("Trump 2.0"), the US will again withdraw from the Paris Agreement.
"Immediately after that when Trump 2.0 comes over what did that mean? Basically again withdrawal from Paris agreement."
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The UNFCCC platform will see increased fragmentation among nations in the future, hindering decisive climate action.
"rather the world is being fragmented at the platform of UNF C going ahead into the future where climate change is already upon us the need of the R is to ensure that UNF C is a functioning body and is a a healthy organization capable to take decisions like that you can conclude the answer."
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Glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) events will become more frequent due to increasing glacial lake sizes in high-altitude areas.
"So when the size of the glacial lakes are increasing in high altitude areas that means danger associated with GO events that is also becoming more frequent. Bloff events in themselves are becoming much more frequent."
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Increased water levels in glacial lakes will lead to overflows, causing massive debris and landslides in regions like Sikkim, Uttarakhand, and Himachal Pradesh.
"if the water level in this goes up means what? This water can overflow and then when the water overflows that means it will come down from a height so the kinetic and the potential energy that it will have will be massive. It will bring with it large amount of debris, landslide etc. which will be a common instance in Sikkim, in Uttakhand, in Himachal Pradesh."
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Heat stress and its impact on worker health will cause long-term economic damage, reducing economic productivity and overall GDP.
"So it has got a long-term economic damage and capable to bring down the economic productivity and GDP overall as well."
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Casualties during the summer season will tend to increase due to heat stress.
"casualties during the summer season also tends to increase."
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