Tag: earth
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Get over Plastic!
Look around you. If there is one thing in abundance other than the envelope of air, it is plastic. Almost 73% of the items we use have plastic in them. Given that they are durable, flexible and long-lasting, one can see why they are used in everything – giving us a reason to love these…
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Simple Tips to Save Electricity
Are you depressed because you’re making Anil Ambani rich? Does your electricity bill worry you more than your appraisal? Are you considering living in a village so that you can escape this hassle? If so, then this might be of some interest to you. A thinner bill is every man’s dream. I like the idea…
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Save Your Money By Saving Resources!
Saving the environment might not be our primary concern – but saving the cash in our pockets might be. In this age, where one stingers over paying even the smallest amounts, can eco-friendly technology actually be of any help to save our bank accounts? Here are 6 ways that might help you reconsider. Save Water!…
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The Benefits Of Cycling for Health and Environment
Mumbai is a motorist’s city. I’ve been living here 20 years, but it took me only my first 3 to realize this fact. Petrol is cool, Diesel is smart, and CNG is the bare minimum. No-fuel is for the no-brainers, and the fashionably-challenged. Much better a crisp shirt than neon tights, right? Wrong. “Wrong, you…
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The Great Smoke: The Wake-Up Call of 1952
It was, by all means, just another early December day in 1952 London. There was a heavy smog cast over the city that lasted four days, till 9th December, but the citizens were used to that kind of weather. Nobody thought very much of it at all, until the following weeks where government reports calculated…
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The ocean cries, fishes population goes down
We all know that rapid industrialisation and technological advancement in the last few decades have caused severe environmental consequences, but one issue that many people have yet to realise the importance of is the alarming decline in the population of fishes. It’s not just the fishes that we commonly find on menus but all types…
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Why you should Rethink your Early Morning Jog
Has the desire to seize every moment of the day ever taken hold of you? To live life to the fullest, cultivate a healthy lifestyle? Wake up early, start the day with a vigorous activity, perhaps an early morning jog? I would not recommend it. Those early morning outings may just kill you sooner. Yes,…
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What Exactly is Coral Bleaching?
Coral bleaching is a process in which reef corals, soft corals, giant clams, some sponges, etc. lose their colour and become white due to expulsion of algae zooxanthellae from their tissues. This results in the corals turning completely white. Zooxanthellae are unicellular algae that live in the tissues of corals. They have a symbiotic relationship…
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Robots that are Green: New World Robotics
Metal hands and metal legs and everything else covered in mental – that’s the first thing that we think of when someone says Robot. Obviously, to us it is an abiotic force that doesn’t have any feelings or emotions whatsoever and sometimes we also go as far as considering them as our personalized maids. If…
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Urban Heat Islands. What are they?
Globalization facilitates many social and economic process, one of the major being migration. Rural population migrates to urban areas in search for employment. About half the world’s population lives in these urban areas. With the ever increasing cluster of the masses, it is no surprise of how it is affecting the environment, making it more…