Geography explainers for UPSC.
Jal Jeevan Mission for UPSC: aims, FHTC norms, funding, Paani Samitis, water quality testing, progress to 15.7 crore taps, challenges and way…
Critical minerals for UPSC: meaning, India's 30 critical minerals, National Critical Mineral Mission, rare earths, China dependence, KABIL, challenges.
Western Ghats for UPSC: six States, formation, passes, rivers, endemic species, UNESCO and hotspot status, Gadgil vs Kasturirangan reports and landslides.
Soils of India for UPSC: how soil forms, ICAR's eight groups, features and crops, erosion, salinity, land degradation data and Soil Health…
Plate tectonics for UPSC: Wegener's drift, sea-floor spreading, plates, divergent, convergent and transform boundaries, and the Indian plate.
Ocean currents for UPSC: forces that drive them, warm and cold currents ocean-wise, gyres, Indian Ocean monsoon currents, thermohaline circulation and effects.
Cyclones for UPSC: conditions for tropical cyclones, eye and eyewall, IMD categories, naming system, temperate cyclones, Bay of Bengal vs Arabian Sea…
Indian monsoon for UPSC: differential heating, ITCZ, jet streams, Tibetan plateau, onset, breaks, retreat, northeast monsoon, ENSO and IOD links, PYQs.
Landslides for UPSC: natural and human causes, Himalayan and Western Ghats zones, Landslide Atlas of India, Wayanad 2024, Joshimath, and NDMA mitigation…
Jet streams for UPSC: how they form, polar front and subtropical westerly jets, tropical easterly jet, Rossby waves, western disturbances, monsoon onset,…
