With a boom in the Industrial Revolution, two centuries ago, mankind, since then, has swiftly shifted to a mass-production society which thrives on the ideology of “Take, Make and Waste”. While we now have a more comfortable lifestyle and certainly a high standard of living than what it was two centuries ago, this growth andRead More
environment
Extreme Air Pollution Threatens the Lives of Millions of Indians Each Year
Come autumn and winter, many parts of India struggle with the noxious air quality and stifling smog which lingers in the sky. Being home to seventeen per cent of the population of the world, the ongoing air quality crisis in India threatens the lives of over a million Indians every year. While city dwellers, likeRead More
Noise Pollution is Killing Marine Life!
Hums and hoots, purrs and grunts, clicks and drums –a mellifluous orchestra plays underneath the surface of the sea. Marine animals like fish, whales, dolphins use sound i.e. high-frequency echolocation to forage, navigate through the water and to communicate with each other. They produce sound to locate their prey or predators in their vicinity. EvenRead More
Microplastic Pollution is Ubiquitous!
Microplastics– this word has been gaining a lot of attention from the ecologists in recent time. With rising population, material consumption has exponentially grown in the last hundred years leading to the huge production of plastic. A consequence of anthropogenic plastic pollution, microplastics are small particles of plastic having a length of five millimetres orRead More
More and More Nations are Declaring Climate Emergency
There has been a lot of acknowledgement pouring in, across the globe, regarding the impending climate crisis which our civilisation may face if we don’t take radical measures to mitigate the effects of global warming. Increasingly, politicians — all over the world — have moved beyond just casual conversations over the ongoing crisis and areRead More
Melting Arctic Sends a message: Climate change is a reality
Though there has been a huge hue and cry all round that climate is changing and is changing at an unexpected pace. Yet, there are few who don’t believe in this and are still arguing that it is just propaganda. Some of the published pieces of literature have already proved that there is nothing likeRead More
Threats to Biodiversity: Climate Change
The burning of the fossil fuels is considered as the major contributor towards climate change. Some of the most devastating impacts of climate change include warming oceans, melting glaciers, suffocating oceans, etc. It is predicted that by the year 2050, the climate change alone threatens the extinction of approximately one quarter or more of allRead More
Renewable Energy – Most important things to learn
We all know what are our conventional, ‘main’ sources of energy… They are Non-renewable resources: fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas that take millions of years to form and, once used, take equal time to replenish. Not only do they take longer to reproduce than it takes to consume them, non-renewable resources causeRead More
Conservation: An initiative to protect and self renew
With the ever-increasing overexploitation of natural resources by human actions, the United Nations is concerned with the availability of the resources in the future. According to the latest reports, it is being suspected that if conservation doesn’t happen now, it won’t be too far when the earth will become devoid of the non- renewable resources. TheRead More