Category: Environment
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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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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…
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No Big Fish: Over-Fishing Woes
Remember that floral shirt wearing, hat donned tourist in the middle of a boat with a big slippery fish held proudly across his chest? Of course everyone remembers such a scene. But that’s just a fish or two. The real monster is that big ugly trawler with a score of men aboard, with heavy machinery…
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Cheap ways to go green- and awesome!
So, when we talk about being environment-conscious and all, we go all “No man, it’s not for me! Besides, I’m not rich enough to buy cotton worth three thousand bucks. I’d rather shop at Causeway!” But the point is, that is a notion that misleads us. How can becoming one with the earth that bears…