Category: Environment
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Landslides and man as the agent of change!
Landslides are among the major hydro geological hazards that affect large parts of India, especially the Himalayas, the North-eastern hill ranges, the western Ghats, the Nilgiris, the Eastern Ghats and the Vindhyas. In the Himalayas alone, one could find landslides of very fame, name and description-big and small, long and short, quick and creeping, ancient…
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Waste Management – Solutions and Its Importance
It seems the more we create the more we throw away. Early humans did not produce as much garbage as modern humans. During the pre-modern era, most of the waste produced was either ashes or human biodegradable waste which could be released back into the land without causing much harm to the environment. In the…
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Inject the green ways into the Fresh Life – Save Earth
It is a known fact that the future generations will decide the fate of this planet. It is requisite to give children the basic idea of the planet’s condition. When a child is taught about the seriousness of the issues right from his/her childhood, they would pave a green way for their generations. Children should…
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Protect the Oxygen Emitters – The Trees
Humans have been evolving right from the pre- historic times. Not only the humans but also the way they think and do, everything has evolved. Development has been the major keyword since then. Development in every phase has been very significant for what we have become now. New buildings were built and infrastructure was developed.…
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Necessary Human Habits that are harming Eco-friendly living
Humans are always in a constant battle to save planet earth, let alone improving and contributing towards its existence. Problems seem to arise from every nook and corner of the globe, natural disasters like earthquake, landslides, etc etc. Fixing the problem with a definite solution goes a long way in helping, but the fact that…
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Light Pollution: What and How?
Are those days a distant memory when we walked under the beautiful sky at night or just simply gazed at the soothing stars? The words “globalization” and “global warming” are moving on parallel paths and are one among the “much talked about” topics. And to compounded to the already well known types of pollution, we…
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Save the Elixir of Life: Save Water
The hot topic of today is water conservation. As we all know that 75% of the world is filled with water one may think that there would be no water scarcity. But, technically only 2% of the water available is fresh water. Unfortunately, only 0.036% is available for our consumption while the rest are lodged…
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Global Warning- A threat to our future
The industrial revolution brought the greatest change of the century. People shifted more towards their own comfort rather than thinking about the future consequences. Many new things were invented which proved to be a blessing, but hardly did they know that it was a blessing in disguise. The level of pollution increased and people did…
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Tourism and Environment- Approach towards Ecotourism
“It is too hot here. Let us go to a hill station.” should be awarded as the most commonly spoken line in North India in the month of June. The Para rises as much as 48 degree Celsius and we cannot do much but to keep ourselves at home. At this time of the year,…
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Reasons to espouse GREEN LIVING
We would have probably observed in News papers and on the television about going green and would have wondered that Why is so important to adopt green living?. People ask us to espouse green methods, we see green everywhere these days- in fashion, politics, food and even in technology. Whenever we browse our needy, an…