Category: Environment
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SOIL AND AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION
Soil Pollution is the contamination of soil caused by the addition of chemical substances resulting in the reduction of soil productivity and adversely affecting yield of the crops grown on it. The toxic substances percolate through the soil layers underneath to contaminate the ground water. The agricultural waste primarily due to farmland drainage contains washings…
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SOLAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
The sun is a bountiful source of energy providing us both heat and light. The earth receives nearly 4000 trillion units (kWh) of energy from the sun on a daily basis. As you all know, solar energy not only sustains life on the Earth, but is also the source of almost all forms of energy…
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Techniques to be implemented in New Homes
We talk a lot about green ways and green living. We read a lot of green living blog, newspapers and hear a lot about the effects on our planet. We read, listen and give ideas alone, but, have we ever tried to reduce the rate of impact on our planet. If you think that, you…
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Soil Erosion- Causes and Prevention.
Soil erosion is defined as the process of removal of soil from one surface, due to factors like rain, wind or others, and its disposition in some other areas. Soil erosion is harmful and useful at the same time. On a good note, it is responsible to bring the minerals from the hilly areas to…
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Action Plan: Project Citizen
Environmental education, Awareness and training plays a significant role in encouraging and enhancing people’s participation in activities aimed at conservation, protection and management of the environment, essential for achieving sustainable development. The Ministry, therefore, accords priority for the promotion of non-formal environmental education and creation of awareness among all sections of the society through diverse…
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Acid Rain – A Regional Environment Challenge
Normal clean rainfall through unpolluted environment is very slightly acidic, with its pH value just less than 7. This slight acidity is caused by the equilibrium reaction between water and Co2 present in the air, forming a weak carbonic acid solution. However, when the environment is polluted with primary pollutants like So2 and NOx gases,…
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OZONE DEPLETION – The most dreaded global environment
Ozone depletion is the most dreaded aspect of air pollution, having wide spread implications, extending over the entire atmosphere. This problem is caused by the reduction of naturally available ozone layer in the atmosphere. Before we explain ozone depletion, we will like to summarize the contents of the gaseous atmosphere that exists above the surface…
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Biggest Environmental Issues
It is the year 2014, mankind has come a long way from being a primitive, crude beast, to a sophisticated and developed species. Our technology continues to progress exponentially as our kind’s intelligence grows and spreads all over the globe. And yet, perhaps it would have been better if we had stayed primitive; better for…
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The Rakshabandhan Mantra:Protect the Earth and it will protect you!
The mantra edition is here again greeting you all a very happy summer season, which marks the arrival of a never-ending list of Indian festivals. The leading one is Rakshabandhan. Oh! True, you all must be scratching your heads, thinking as to what in heaven, is Rakhi going to do with environment. For all the…
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Resource Management: Sustainable Development Mantra
Resources are finite but human needs and desires are uncontrollable and limitless. This statement made by an economist made the mantra edition popped out in my head with the most common mantra of the generation: Sustainable development plan. It is where economic growth and environmental growth go hand in hand. We have not inherited this…