The Ecotrends

August 28, 2024

What is Ozone layer? How is it depleted and what are the control measures?

Ozone absorbs ultraviolet radiations so that much of it is never allowed to reach to the earth surface. The protective umbrella of ozone layer in the stratosphere protects the earth from harmful ultraviolet radiations. Ozone plays an important role in the biology and climatology on the earth’s environment. It filters out all the radiations that remain below 3000Å. Radiations below this wavelength are biologically harmful. Hence any depletion of ozone layer is sure to exert catastrophic impacts on life in the biosphere.

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August 22, 2024

Environmental Problems and their global perspective

Our environment today is facing a number of problems. All those problems are causing dangers to take shape against the existence of the whole biosphere of this planet. But who is behind all those problems? The answer is – M A N.

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November 22, 2022

The route of environment problems and Sustainable World

The processes of development through years have spurred on unplanned urbanization, extensive industrialization followed by different types of pollutions, construction of a series of mega dams, and large-scale application of Agro-chemicals. In the process, different parts of the world have started facing ecological crises.

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October 17, 2022

Global perspective of environmental problems

Our environment today is facing a number of problems. All those problems are causing dangers to take shape against the existence of the whole biosphere of this planet. But who is behind all those problems? The answer is – M A N.

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September 18, 2022

Combating Global Warming and Climate Change

The Industrial Policy Initiative undertaken by the Central Government in July 1991, made the Indian Industry to compete on International Levels. As a result, an Industrial Licensing Policy was adopted in 1991. It was followed by a number of steps like Liberalization of Foreign Investment in Banking Sector, Technological Collaboration with other countries, Creation of Special Economic Zones and, Simplification of Industrial Licensing and Promotion of Exports etc.

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September 10, 2022

Local and Global Effects of Pollution

On the local and regional levels, air pollution creates various types of problems against living and non- living environment. In the living environment it causes different types of physical, physiological and mental diseases.

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March 19, 2021

What is Global Warming and how is it linked to Green House Effect?

Human activities of pollution are modifying the natural process of green house effect. The advent of the Industrial Revolution in the 1700s boosted up the activities of burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas which released lots of heat absorbing gases into the atmosphere.

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February 17, 2021

Glaciers of Himalaya are linked to our Existence

Fighting against the Climate Change which has become the biggest problem of environment is a big challenge of today.

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December 13, 2020

How does Global Warming affect Our Lives

The regular pattern of weather conditions of a particular place is called as climate of that place. This regular pattern of weather conditions is considerably disturbed by fluctuations in temperature. The disturbance in the pattern of weather conditions at the particular place may thus be called as Climate Change.

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April 8, 2021 Recommended

Aadya Links Relations

Aadya a three years girl lives with her Nani, Nanoo, and Mom in a flat of a big apartment. Her mother is a Senior Secondary teacher and her father is a scientist in IIT, Mumbai.

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April 10, 2021 Recommended

Talking About the World Homoeopathy Day

The Homoeopathic System of Medical Care is based on equality. Dr. Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann created the pseudoscientific System of Alternative Medicine called Homoeopathy in 1796. He was born on 10th April 1755 in Meissen, Germany and died on 2nd July 1843 in Paris, France.

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May 21, 2022 Recommended

Plants and their Different Parts

Living organisms capable of synthesizing food on their own are called as plants. They contain chlorophyll, the green magnesium compound which helps in trapping the energy from sun. This energy runs the process of photosynthesis through which glucose is basically synthesized in leaves and green stems on combining together the atmospheric carbon dioxide and water.

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