Tag: human activities
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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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Who causes Forest Fire – Nature or Human Beings?
One of the most harmful natural disasters to the environment is the Forest Fire. A forest fire or a wild fire, as the name suggests, is combustion of a large area covered with trees or other vegetation. Wildfires mostly occur in the regions of hot and dry climate, like Australia. The wet or cold climate…