Month: May 2014
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Free as a Bird? Not really-Bird Trafficking
The blue coat and the thick layer of long feathers were almost radiating glory. I said ‘almost’ because, it was a rather sad sight. The pair of blue Brazilian macaws were stuffed in a cage half their body size and were jangling in the back of a truck while it made its way through the…
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Unique ways to avoid chemicals in everyday life
This is the age of “healthy living”. Each and every product available in the market today is questionable. The increased use of toxic and hazardous chemicals required for making these products has made people more wary of what type of food they eat, what products they use, what kind of environment they live in to…
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Protect forests = save the globe
Human beings strangling all over the world to fulfill socio-economic wants, in this tiff between man and nature; Humans caused atrocities to the natural habitat and found himself every time on the side of loss. Loss of natural habitat has always left its everlasting effect on the growth and development of mankind. The balance between…
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EAT GREEN- AND NOT JUST GREEN VEGETABLES!
The jumbo cheeseburger at the new café or the yummy beef plate may be absolutely delicious, although they are a big blow to your waistlines. However, here is a lesser known fact; fast food and refined goods not only make your tummy bulge, they are a black patch on our green environment! Industrial food production…
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sports ! A need
Just lying on the couch and watching, watching Television seems to be cool! But it is not. Playing video games might be interesting but does not as energetic as sports. Playing outdoors games are much happening then indoor games.It was man’s desire for a healthy pastime and a method of self evaluation and competition that…
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When human activities lead to landslides
Overpopulation is not a term unknown to us, and so is deforestation and over-development. But what happens when all of this comes together? The result is often disastrous. One such result of human development is landslide. Landslide can be defined as disintegration or sliding down of debris, a chunk of mountain, cliff or any other…
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Time to conserve wild life !
Do you think we are only living being suffering from global warming? our country is home to a diverse array of wildlife ranging from the highest peaks, to the driest deserts, to freshwater and marine environments and to all the places in between. The abundant and diverse wildlife resources, which are so important to…
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ENVIRONMENT POLLUTION
ENVIRONMENT POLLUTION As we all know that environmental degradation caused by over exploitation of natural resources and decline in the quality and/or quantity of environment may result from the alteration of the entire structure of the resources as in land degradation, deforestation, etc. So, our main objectives of this article is to describe the cause…
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Sustainable Palm Oil – a possibility?
I was recently part of a Greenpeace India action in Delhi, asking Procter & Gamble (owner of brands like Olay, Pantene, Head & Shoulders and many more) to commit to no deforestation and usage of only sustainable palm oil. It was a global campaign as volunteers worldwide urged P&G to save the endangered Sumatran tigers…
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Chemical Fertilizers or Poison ?
Five years ago, the crop yield was splendid. That was in stark contrast to this year as the yield had been poor. The farmers did not know what went wrong but something somewhere certainly did. The reason is: Chemical fertilizers. Chemical fertilizers are chemical compounds that provide essential nutrients required by plants for rapid growth…