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
Jared Diamond
Climate Change is Skewing Sex Ratio in Animals
There has been a growing concern among wildlife scientists and ecologists as far as the effect of global warming on the sex ratio of certain animals is concerned. Rising global temperature has been reported to skew sex ratio in certain species. As the temperature of an ecosystem plays a vital role in the way someRead More
Sea Level Rise Can Diminish the Value of Real Estate Investments
Climate change repercussions have been mostly talked about within the frame of cultural implications and a common man, hardly, conceives a possibility of a fiscal debacle which may be triggered due to ongoing and spiralling climate crisis. Thanks to the unfettered increase in the global emission of greenhouse gases, the sea level, all across theRead 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