Author: Green Blogger
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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…
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Urban Sprawl: How it Works
Urban sprawl can be easily understood as the spreading of a city or its suburbs. Also known as sprawl or suburban sprawl, it often involves the construction of residential and commercial buildings in undeveloped land at the outskirts of a city. This extended expansion of cities is quite rapid and is often characterized by low-density…
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Ecotourism: Good or Bad?
No city lights, only the moonlight, the fireflies and the jungle calls to keep you company in your tent in a forest camp. Like that idea, don’t you? If you are one of those wilderness loving types, then most of your holidays revolve around being in commune with the environment, in jungles and mountain trails.…
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Overpopulation: The impact on our environment
With the accelerated rate of increase of the population in the world, our Mother Earth herself is undergoing a massive crisis by the various threats of ‘Overpopulation’ .The word alone spills the intended message. Every 12 years, there are one billion people added to our globe. The main problem due to this is overcrowding and…
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Water: The eternal quencher
Since time immemorial, man has been dependent on water for most major aspects of his life. If we take a peek into history to an era about five-six thousand years into our past, we can see that all major civilizations that developed in a manner that was worthy of mention, did so on the banks…