UPSC 1998 › Environment & Ecology

Indonesian forest fire in 1997 was caused by

According to Meadows (1972), if the present trends in world population, industrialisation, pollution, food production and resource depletion continue unchanged, the “Limits to Growth” on our planet will be reached in the next

Estuaries possess distinct blooms of excessive growth of a pigmented dinoflagellate. These blooms are called

Some people in Manipur live in houses built on floating islands of weeds and decaying vegetation held together by suspended silt. These islands are called

Forest areas have been labelled as 1, 2, 3 and 4 in the rough outline map given. Among these, those which were threatened in 1997 by a serious epidemic include

‘Eco mark’ is given to the Indian products that are

World Environment Conference to discuss global warming was held in 1997 in

The water pollution in river is measured by the dissolved amount of

A tree species in Mauritius failed to reproduce because of the extinction of a fruit-eating bird.

Which one of the following was that bird?