Month: August 2014
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All about Green Bench and The Kyoto Mechanism
Environmental pollution has become a global problem. Hence, every country developed or developing are putting emphasis on ways to minimize the environmental degradations. Laws are made in many countries for the protection of the environment. The Supreme Court (Apex court) of India also felt the need to establishing the Green Benches in different High courts…
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Some important environmental laws: We must be aware!
To protect the environment from degradation by human activities, it is necessary to enforce environmental laws. The legal control for the protection of environment was incorporated by the 42nd amendment Act 1976 into the constitution. The amendment act incorporated two new articles, Article 48A, and Article 51A(g). Article 48Asays that the state would protect and…
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The Academic Mantra: Environmental Education is the future!
The Academic Mantra 2014 is: Go for environmental studies and serve better than just an aware bearer of the problem, contribute in making a change. For all the toddlers who are asked questions about their aim in life: Remember! Green is the new cool. Let’s have a greener and sustainable revolution! Environmental studies are the…
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World food problems
The basic stipulation for the survival of human beings or loving beings if food. The food humans eat are composed of several major types of biological molecules/ components necessary to maintain health: carbohydrates, proteins and lipids. In additional to these, human require other nutrients like vitamins, minerals and water in their diet. Food production is…
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POLLUTION AND CONSERVATON OF ENVIRONMENT
The development of civilization and rapid industrialization by man has caused a great damage to the ecosystem. Things have worsened because no attention or a very little attention has been paid towards protecting the environment, while executing industries and other development projects. Associated with any development, there is bound to be some amount of environmental…
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Water and Industrial Pollution
Water Pollution of surface and ground waters is largely a problem in the wake of rising population, rapid urbanization and industrlization. The large-scale urban growth has increased domestic wastes while the industrial development manifested either in the growth of new industries or in the expansion of the existing established industries has augmented industrial wastes, the…
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THERMAL POLLUTION
Thermal Pollution is an offshoot of rapid urbanization and unplanned industrialization with a heavy demand on thermal power palnts. Thermal Pollution may be defined as the warming up of the aquatic system to a point where the activities of aquatic plants and animals are adversely effected because of the discharge of heated effluents from the…
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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF MINING
Mining, as we know, is the extraction of minerals and ores from the Earth. It is a vital sector of our economy, just next to agriculture. Mining helps us to extract costly resources from the Earth, which we fashion into countless goods of our daily and industrial uses. Mining provides us fuels for our energy…
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LAKES AND OCEANS: THEIR LIFE ZONES
In this article, I will turn your attention to aquatic organisms, i.e., living organisms inhabiting the variety of water bodies on the earth. We shall specifically take up the examples of lakes and oceans. Different regions of lakes and oceans have different characteristics which are a function of many abiotic factors. These regions, which are…
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10 Ancient Green Homes
We hear a lot about green homes now-a-days. The first thing that will come to our mind when we hear the term Green House is home with high grade technologies to reduce the usual impact on the nature. The people have an idea that Green Homes are with modern technology, design and construction. But the…