Category: Health
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Mind-boggling Environment secrets
Everything towards which we turn our eyes is our beautiful Environment. It constitutes the vast and shining water bodies which teem with infinite variety of aquatic flora and fauna; the countless species of flora as well as fauna; the tall and majestic mountain ranges; the flowering and fruitful trees and shrubs; the fertile plains, the…
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Blood Ivory
A few of you will probably draw the link between the title and the term ‘blood diamonds’ and realize what this article is going to be about. You guessed right. However, there may be some unfamiliar with the term. By the end of this article, you too will know what it refers to. Ivory is…
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Exercising the Green Way
Mr. Khanna was his usual self, sweating profusely and running at a high speed. He had lapped almost 3 km but, was still standing in a room. These days, fitness is taking the center position in most people’s lives. It is only logical for so many gyms to spring up in every nook and corner.…
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Beauty or Health- Is it Tough to Choose?
Trying really hard to match the ever-increasing pace of advancement of the modern world, we are so busy with our jobs that we hardly have any time to bother about the effects the cosmetics and other daily products have on our lives. Whenever you want to go out in the sun, you apply loads of…
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NANOTOXICOLOGY- assessing the risks of emerging technology
Nanotechnology is considered as one of the key technologies of the 21st century and promises revolutionizing the world. Only engineered particles such as metal oxides, fullerenes, nanotubes under 100nm fall under the category of nanoparticles. This implies that some particles that occur naturally or are by products of other processes such as carbon black, fire…
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Marine Life at Stake!!
Marine pollution is the direct or indirect introduction of substances or energy to the marine environment resulting in disadvantageous effect such as hazards to human health, hindrance of marine activities (including fishing), and impairment of the quality of sea water. The ocean is the ultimate sink for most of the waste we produce. It is…
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Humor for Healthy living!
In that continuous ruckus of materialistic busy life, we forgot some vital things which are necessary to live! We are humans as you know and not a static machine. And out of this life of hurry and flurry we tend to forget what laughing is. We get so easily muddled with the machines and electronic…
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Plastics Harming the Environment? We try to find out
These days plastics have been used for various items such as bottles, bags etc. But what most of the people don’t know is that what are the harmful chemicals present in it. Most of the people who buy water bottles happen to dispose them instead of reusing them. As calculations taken from a report around…
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The Carbon Crisis, Carbon Credits & Its Market
The massively beneficial developments that have occurred in various sectors of our existence since the Industrial Revolution, while vastly improving the quality of life, have all brought with them one very dangerous by product – carbon, in multiple harmful forms. From the air conditioners, refrigerators, and televisions that we are so accustomed to making use…
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Plastic – The Deadly Weapon to Kill Earth
Plastic pollution involves the presence of plastic products in the environment that will affect human being, wildlife and its habitat. Plastic can pollute the environment in many ways. Plastic pollution can affect the lands, oceans, water bodies. Plastic have been banned in some places and efforts are taken for plastic recycling. The Plastic pollution can…