Month: May 2014
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Keep calm and keep walking!
How many times in your life have you planned to go on a regular exercise schedule and failed repeatedly? Regular exercise, though is great for health, isn’t really the most feasible option in our already-so-busy day to day life. We hardly get anytime for such schedules. And this failure of exercising is what has apparently…
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Flow Of Energy in Ecosystems
None of the organisms in an ecosystem, be it a grassland, a pond or a desert, live in isolation. Each organisms exists in a number of relationship with other organisms and the non living environment. Flow of energy is the consequence of this inter relationship. Ecosystem, being typical open system, driven by the continuous input…
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Greenest And Cleanest Cities in India
I know it’s kind of hard for many people to accept that there are cities in India which are green and clean. Although there are no completely green and clean cities in India, these are the best in our country as of now. According to the national city rating published by the government of India,…
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9 basic steps to start living green
Let us start with a question, just see around you and analyse, is there anything natural or organic? Bitter truth, but we can hardly find anything untill we move to our kitchen maybe. Our busy-life-make-it-easy mind set does not leave us with many options to have a eco-friendly lifestyle. But then we can definately try,…
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The Ozone Layer – Your Invisible Protection
Are you the kind of person who likes a nice, quiet walk? Or the kind who likes to be out of the house every evening? Do you believe in an invisible protector? Believe it or not, you do have one. The only reason you can go out anywhere without erupting into boils and rashes is…
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Global Warming – A Nightmare in future
Global Warming is defined as the increase in the average temperature of Earth’s Atmosphere. Since 1970, most of the increase has been in the oceans, which is about 90%. Global Warming also refers to the increase in temperature of the Earth’s surface. Since the year 2000, the surface temperature has increased about 0.8 0 C, which is…
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Over Fishing- A Resource diminishing
The term over fishing means, exploitation in which fishes are depleted to higher levels, regardless of the size of the water bodies. The result of over fishing is lower biological rates, resource depletion, and low bio mass level. One of the examples is that, over fishing of sharks alone have led to a change in…
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One Solution to Many Problems: Nature Answers
The increasing complexity of our modern lives demands a deep need within for simplifying, slowing down and reconnecting with the natural world. We are so busy with our work that we ignore small things that have a great impact on us. Our fore-fathers were committed to a natural way of living. Everything they consumed or…
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Death in disguise- Plastic
Everywhere we go today or everything that we use is either entirely made up of plastic or has some plastic ingredient. Look around, from food items wrapping to clothes to footwear to carrying our materials to toys to cell phones and computers to medicines plastic is present everywhere. It has very well molded the society…
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E-Waste and the environment
Advancement in technology and development of new electronic gadgets and appliances has made our everyday life more comfortable and secure. It has made the process of accessing and acquiring information easy and time saving. The production and manufacturing of electrical and electronic equipment is one of the fastest growing global activities. Rapid economic growth, along…