The renowned hydrologist Wilfried Brutsaert is awarded the Stockholm Water Prize 2022 for his groundbreaking work to quantify environmental evaporation, helping to make accurate predictions of the impact that climate change has on local rainfall patterns and water sources.
The theme of the 2022 International Day of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade is "Stories of Courage: Resistance to Slavery and Unity against Racism".
The US space agency, NASA, successfully launched the third in a series of four next-generation weather satellites, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD) is being celebrated every year on 21 March to raise public awareness for the rights, inclusion and well being of people with Down syndrome.
The "Girl Shiksha Pravesh Utsav" campaign has been launched by the Ministry of Women and Child Development in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).