Tag: danger
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Desertification
Human activities such as deforestation, overgrazing, poor soil conservation, etc. have led to the transformation of regions with initially fertile land into desert-like areas i.e. become barren and infertile. This process, known as desertification, occurs most commonly in arid and semi-arid regions which already have high temperatures, low rainfall, and sub-humid climate. Although the presence…
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Soil Pollution – Another Raising Concern
The term pollution is defined as the emission of unwanted materials into the atmosphere, which can cause or affect the well being of the eco-system. Pollution is the main reason we are trying to espouse green living. Pollution can be differentiated into many categories and each kind of pollution has its own effect on the…
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What is Ocean Pollution? Its Causes and Effects
The oceans take up most of the area in our planet. But, even this huge mass is affected by human activities and is polluted in a huge way. And when the ocean is affected, the water living creatures also lose their natural habitat and some of the creatures also become extinct. This will directly affect…
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Top Methods to Reduce Landfills
We use a lot of products in our daily life and most of them go as a waste. These wastes either go under the soil or into the landfills. Either of these methods can cause damage to our Planet and to the living organisms. People do not realize the fact that our earth is getting…
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Hydertrophication
Hydertrophication (or eutrophication) is caused when an excess of nutrients (natural or artificial substances) is present in a water body. Although eutrophication does occur as a natural process, anthropogenic activities have alarmingly increased the rate of it and its effects could take a thousand years to neutralise. Eutrophication usually includes the addition of compounds of…
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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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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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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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Honda Growing Green
The alarmingly high rate of global warming and declining earth sustainability has certainly left the so called “sane” humans scratching their heads for developing such a piece of creativity that might save their lives from going into the approaching black hole What we as citizens believe is that are leaders- the societal political, and economic…