Tag: nature
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All for Convenience’s Sake
Every Mumbaikar has a friend who is never far away. He has a way of greeting you the moment you step out onto the streets. At times his presence is very strong. At other times he’s a passive companion. He is a friend we affectionately call garbage. We are all well aware of terms like…
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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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Why Climatic Change Is a Concern?
Changing Climatic Conditions: Not all Change is good. Changing Climatic Conditions arising primarily due to Global Warming has proven to be more than just a threat to our environment and us. We human beings are very much dependant on mother earth and all it has to offer. The air, water, trees, etc., in many ways…
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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…
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GENETIC ENGINEERING: Green Signal or Not?
Genetic Engineering may be defined as the mixing of different types of genetic material so as to generate a new type of DNA sequence. It can be defined technically as “Genetic engineering alters the genetic make-up of an organism using techniques that remove heritable material or that introduces DNA prepared outside the organism either directly into the…
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Five Things that Make you Connected to Nature
What is the need to connect to nature? Why spend time staring at the sky when you have more important work to do like tweeting about what you ate today? Why would one bother to sit under the shade of the tree when there is an important file to be submitted? The pace of the…
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Why are people all over the world moving to Vegan Diet?
A survey was conducted and the results showed that out of 10 people in the USA, 7 preferred Non-Veg diet and 3 preferred Veg diet. Now before hopping into the driver’s seat and start to know the reason that why this ratio is changing soon and why people are moving towards the horizon of Vegan…