Category: Environment
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Bury the Body NOT Burn
Since ancient times, many civilizations were made, run and then ended but every civilization set a mark over the next and then next. Till now, archaeologists or palaeontologists have a lot of work to do, a lot of stuff to find and a lot of material to decode, to know the pattern followed before, to…
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Man-Made Lands in the Middle of Water: BIG Time Dangerous
Question: What is common between the East Coast Park beach of Singapore and Bandra in Mumbai? Answer: Both are examples of reclaimed land from the sea. This means, there used to be sea water in place of the land that we see now. The entire shoreline in the East Coast Park is man-made and so…
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Smoking Thrills but it also Kills
Take a break. Every looked around? What do we see the most? On an average everyday we get to see people- young, old, puffing the most deadly and poisonous substance into their lungs. Smoking is now a new trend, a hippy and cool fashion among the teenagers and youth. Be it happiness or depression, the…
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Where there is Smoke: Causes and Effects
Have you ever wondered what that grey blanket could be that envelops our sky nowadays? Well that is smog. Smog is nothing but smoke and fog. Smoke can be the result of natural incidents and man-made events. It is a fire by-product. Unfortunately smog is totally a man generated phenomenon. The smog menace has been…
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Tourism (Pollution): Not so Incredible!
‘Look mom! There’s a bunch of deer!’ squealed the 5 year old kindergartener. Piercing through the regular jungle sounds was his excited squeal. It wasn’t much of a happy thing for the deer though, who got startled and darted in the other direction in Jim Corbett National Park. The diaper of the baby was strewn…
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Slum menance in Urban areas
Migration of people from villages in hope and desire to live a better life and enjoy the comforts offered by cities and metros is not a new story. They want to do little work and earn large sum of money. They want to move to urban areas and leave behind their ancestral land and get…
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INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL RESOURCES
Nature has bestowed us with many gifts. They are commonly called as NATURAL RESOURCES. The natural resource has made this planet liveable and have supported the evolution and sustenance of living organisms. Natural resources can be classified as PHYSICAL RESOURCES or BIOTIC RESOURCES and in another way as RENEWABLE or NON RENEWABLE RESOURCES. As India…
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Loud and Clear: NOISE POLLUTION
‘Will they ever stop that noise?’ yelled the octogenarian Mr. Ganguly to his wife. The neighbors next door were having a house party and playing rock music. The music was so loud that the entire colony could hear it. After circling around on the runway, the airplane finally came to a halt. The passengers got…
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Shining Capital City or World’s Most polluted City?
It would not be surprising at all to know that pollution is a central and perpetual problem in India. But it is definitely disheartening when we hear that a country as India so rich in culture and tradition has slipped by 32 ranks in the Global Environment Performance Index (EPI) in this year, 2014. India…
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How safe are we really @ home??
We spend one – third of our life sleeping but we spend our entire life breathing. We face a variety of risks in our everyday life. Driving cars, flying in airplanes, engagement in recreational activities, exposure to environment pollutants all pose varying degrees of risk. Some of these are simply unavoidable. We choose to accept…