Daily Current Affairs|1 September 2026

Rangelands include grasslands, savannas, shrublands and pastures used by wildlife and pastoral communities; they cover about 54% of Earth’s land surface.

The new initiative aims to restore degraded rangelands and strengthen the livelihoods of people who depend on them.

COP17 also unveiled the Drought Resilience Index, described as a tool for identifying specific vulnerabilities to drought.

Mongolia’s broader Steppe Plan linked rangelands with water-land management and nature-based infrastructure.

The telescope was launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Its very wide field of view will help map billions of galaxies and search for large numbers of exoplanets—planets that orbit stars outside our Solar System.

It uses infrared observations and is designed to study how the Universe is expanding and how unseen matter shapes galaxies.

The telescope is named after Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer, often called the 'Mother of Hubble'.