Pink Fire Retardant
Los Angeles authorities used pink fire retardant to combat wildfires.
- Also known as – Phos-Chek
- A mix of chemicals used to extinguish or slow down spread of fires
- Contains ammonium phosphate-based slurry.
Community Notes Programme
Meta has scrapped its 3rd-party professional fact-checking programme and replaced it with a Community Notes programme similar to X platform
- Initiative of X, aimed at combating misinformation and enhancing content quality through user-generated context.
- 1st piloted as a programme called ‘Birdwatch’ by Twitter in 2021.
- Function – Users provide notes on posts that need clarification or additional context.
- Algorithmic Review – A rating system ensures that only the most balanced and widely supported notes appear publicly.
- No Editorial Oversight – Unlike traditional fact-checking or moderation, the notes are not edited or curated by platform employees but are entirely community-driven.
Hollangapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary
Recently, the standing committee of National Board for Wildlife approved a proposal to carry out oil and gas exploration in the eco-sensitive zone of the Hollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary.
- Location – Assam.
- Significance – Contains India’s only gibbons – the hoolock gibbons and Northeastern India’s only nocturnal primate – the Bengal slow loris.
- Other non-human primates in the Sanctuary – Capped Langur, Rhesus Macaque, Assamese Macaque, Pigtailed Macaque & Stump tailed Macaque.
Bharat Cleantech Manufacturing Platform
Recently, the Union Minister of Commerce & Industry launched the Bharat Cleantech Manufacturing Platform at the Bharat Climate Forum 2025
- Designed to enhance India’s cleantech value chains in the solar, wind, hydrogen, and battery storage sectors.
- Provide an opportunity for the Indian firms to collaborate, to coinnovate and will help provide a platform for financing, to share ideas, technologies and resources.
CAES System (Compressed Air Energy Storage)
World’s largest CAES facility commenced full operation in China.
- A technology used to store energy by compressing air into sealed locations often in underground mines or caverns created inside salt rocks.
- Stores electrical energy in the form of potential energy (compressed air).
- Energy is stored during off-peak hours and is released back to the grid when the demand is high.