Tag: soil erosion
-
Soil Erosion- Causes and Prevention.
Soil erosion is defined as the process of removal of soil from one surface, due to factors like rain, wind or others, and its disposition in some other areas. Soil erosion is harmful and useful at the same time. On a good note, it is responsible to bring the minerals from the hilly areas to…
-
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…
-
Sustainable practices in agriculture
Agriculture which has the various principles of ecology interspersed within it is called sustainable agriculture. Ecology is nothing but a study pertaining to a relationship of organisms with the surrounding environment. The various goals of sustainable agriculture are: * To augment the quality of the environmental natural resources and thus provide a boost to the…
-
Overpopulation: The impact on our environment
With the accelerated rate of increase of the population in the world, our Mother Earth herself is undergoing a massive crisis by the various threats of ‘Overpopulation’ .The word alone spills the intended message. Every 12 years, there are one billion people added to our globe. The main problem due to this is overcrowding and…