Tag: water
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Marine Life at Stake!!
Marine pollution is the direct or indirect introduction of substances or energy to the marine environment resulting in disadvantageous effect such as hazards to human health, hindrance of marine activities (including fishing), and impairment of the quality of sea water. The ocean is the ultimate sink for most of the waste we produce. It is…
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Renewable Energy-The Future is Here
If you are sitting and looking at a green living site I’m sure you’ve heard all the rantings that go like, “fossil fuels are BAD!! Renewable energy FTW !!” You know what, the Ranters have it absolutely right. Since the age of industrialization, we have been using the combustion of fossil fuels as a source…
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Environmental impacts of Meat Consumption
Being a vegetarian will help prevent animal cruelty for obvious reasons but are you aware of the environmental consequences of a meat-eating diet? If not, then you should be aware of the startling fact that meat-eating is considered to be the second-biggest environmental hazard facing the Earth! The production of meat consumes large amounts of…
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The Rise of Environmentalists
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed”, Mahatma Gandhi once said. It’s this environmental awareness that’s inexplicably procured a growing hype and has given birth to several environmentalists over the years. You might be frivolous towards the various environmental issues that reign now, but wouldn’t it be wise to…
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Dehydration- the lack of sufficient water in the body
The heat is on! Summer means trips to the beaches, picnics, and planning vacations with family, friends etc but on the other half, it also implies an increased risk of dehydration. With more time spent outside in the sun, there comes an increased risk of not drinking enough liquids. The high temperatures make it hard…
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Deforestation and The Uttarakhand Disaster
June 16th 2013, a date that means more or less nothing to you (unless it’s your birthday of course, in which case many happy returns to you!). It does for many others though. That date will be blacked out off the calendar of many households. A date remembered only to regret its existence. A day…
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Reusing plastic bottles
Everyone is well aware about the massive destruction of the environment by the hands of humans. This has led to new inventions and origin of innovative plans every day to reduce the damage caused by us. Of course, we cannot just invent something out of the blue. But, the least we can do is to…
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Healthy Brain– Healthy Food…
Everybody believes in one thing, that you have to eat good food to keep your bones and muscles healthy. Since we think through our brains, we forget for the most part that there is a skull and inside it there is a also a lump of convoluted muscle called brain present, by saying bones and…
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ENVIRONMENT POLLUTION
ENVIRONMENT POLLUTION As we all know that environmental degradation caused by over exploitation of natural resources and decline in the quality and/or quantity of environment may result from the alteration of the entire structure of the resources as in land degradation, deforestation, etc. So, our main objectives of this article is to describe the cause…