Category: Environment
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Global warming: A rising fear
Rising sea levels .Growing wild fires. Unfortunate droughts .Radiating heat waves. All these are the horrifying results of a planet that suffers a quiet turbulence. When the temperature of the earth’s climate system accelerates above a certain average temperature , it results in a critical situation called the ‘global warming’. It mainly pertains to the…
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Tips For Energy Efficient Environment
Energy crisis. During a happier time, anyone you mention this phrase to would have laughed it off, not even knowing what it meant. Not realizing that one day, humans running out of energy to fuel their everyday needs could become a reality. But that time is long past now. Nowadays, every time a person hears…
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Have More Plants Around: Lead a Better Life
On my last summer getaway trip to Maldives, I was left speechless. Just as I entered my hotel, I could feel a wave of fresh air rushing through my nose. The feeling was breathtaking. It was providing instant serenity to the mind but more than that it fascinated me to find more about its existence.…
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Green Techniques Every city can Learn From Vancouver, Canada
It’s not that every city is not having a green-ing and cleaning program on their portfolio, but it is how it is perfectly implemented. It’s how a vision of a green and clean city can be craved from a polluted city. With that in mind, the city of Vancouver from Canada has a successful greening…
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Go Green!
If skyrocketing oil prices, the booming world population and the threat of global warming hadn’t already grabbed people’s attention, last week’s record power demand and air-quality warnings certainly served as a reminder that the world faces pressing questions about its climate and energy use. While “doing something for the environment” once meant tossing a newspaper…
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Is Green Living actually Implemented?
So there is this one question which makes me curious . How many people know what is green living and are they aware of what are they doing to help improve it. Having the knowledge and implementing it are two different things. From my observation, I can tell that most of us have the knowledge…
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What the Earth Wants
John F. Kennedy in his inaugural address after the presidential war, had said, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” As true and profound this statement is, what is worrying is how everyone seems to ignore that this holds equally, if not truer for the…
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Paper Pollution
We don’t really give it a second thought before tearing another piece of paper after we crumbled up the first one to throw it in the dustbin. We go on printing one small paragraph till we get a perfect print. We don’t even bother when we use one full sheet of paper to write a…
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Dams: Causing Devastation Everywhere
The dam was so huge you had to stretch your neck in an obtuse angle to catch the entire height of it. The water was yet to gush from those barrage gates but the director of the program could totally imagine white raging waters gushing down those cement slopes, making a lot of sound. This…
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Acid rain: The Ugly Truth
Rain .The word alone radiates freshness. But, what if this rain turns into an intoxicating, lethal fluid that would pour its atrocious devastating impact on us? Yes, we are talking about the acid rain ! What exactly is acid rain? It is actually a precipitation that’s interspersed with nitric and sulphuric acids in great amounts…