Category: Environment
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Water pollution: What can be Done and Undone.
Water pollution: What can be Done and Undone. What is water pollution? Water pollution has been defined to be the contamination of water bodies (such as lakes, oceans, rivers, etc.) This occurs when pollutants and other harmful substances enter water bodies or are directly or indirectly discharged into them without adequate treatment of harmful compounds.…
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Insulated Cavity Walls- Towards a Better Life Style
The concept of transfer of heat is known to all of us, that energy travels from higher temperature area to lower temperature area to make the latter warmer. This phenomenon works in our homes in summer as well as winters. In summers, the temperature outside the house is much more than the temperature inside the…
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Bacteria Can Not Only Cause Colds, They Can Recharge Your Phone!
It happens so often that we are out of the house for long and the battery of our phones or I-Pod runs out… it’s extremely inconvenient, not to mention irritating! We switch off our Wi-Fi, dim the screen lights, switch off our phone for a while and put it on airplane mode… because it’s not…
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Woods mean Wood.Do they?
Judging by the increasing rate of deforestation, one can clearly make out that the desire of sustainable development is only a concept that remains in theory, which is rarely implemented practically. Certainly, some exceptions do exists, but on the greater scale, we are only going after the development, without making it sustainable. What do…
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Gravity Lights
Shocked to see your electricity bills going up and always up?? Want a fall and a drop in the burning hot bill to save your income?? On an average how much of your income is spent on the fuel consumption?? May be 10% to 20% every time. And still there is no fall in its…
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Beauty has a Deadly Price
We all aspire to look beautiful. Everyday thousands of men and women are spending millions of dollars on beauty products and cosmetics just to look attractive and beautiful. Due to this, the beauty, personal care and cosmetic businesses have been thriving in the past few years . With celebrities vouching for these products on television…
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Man-Animal Conflicts : Loss of Habitat Security
They were overjoyed. They sang his praises. They almost worshipped him like a demi-God. The man was Jim Corbett, who had gunned down the notorious man-eaters of Garhwal and Kumaon. But again, he was a hunter-turned-conservationist. Also, the incidences of man-animal conflicts were low. You could almost praise someone who killed the leopard who went…
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A1 or A2: Which Milk Would you Prefer?
The A1 and A2 are the two variants of beta-casein proteins found in cow’s milk. Now one of them happens to have some serious side effects that can result in health conditions like schizophrenia, type-I diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, autism etc. By the very sound of it, you may be inclined towards choosing the A1 variety…
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Is Cycling a Viable Option When You Want to Go Green ?
Pretty much most of the people’s first confidence in riding a vehicle comes from riding a bicycle. It goes for a few years. What happens then? We either loose interest or act according to the trends of our own ages and shift to the time saving motor vehicles. Which is the…
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Genetic Engineering: An Informal Introduction
Genetic engineering or genetic modification is the process through which the genetic composition of a living of an organism can be altered, that is to put it very simply. There are many theories on how this modern miracle is successfully redefining our future in more negative ways than positive but the scientific researches that have…