Trees have been essential aspects of nature that have provided us with resources to sustain life. Since our ancestors discovered that trees have been providing us food, shade, wood, and flowers, they started worshipping them as a sign of gratitude, and a request to those trees continue providing them those resources. And it is because…

When we take any scrap material that looks like it could go in the dustbin, and creates a whole new product or object out of it, it is called recycling. Recycling is an incredibly vital practice that we all must learn to follow. It is one of the 3 R’s, where the other two are…

Flood is one of the recurring natural disasters, which is an outcome of heavy rainfall and the accumulation of excessive water in every living area. Floods may occur due to overflow of water from the reservoirs or due to torrential downpour of rain in places where the drainage systems are not adequately maintained. Water may…

The agriculture in India is largely dependent upon the monsoon rain shower during the months of June to the middle of September and a few parts of the country gets rains during the retreating monsoon from October to December. Tamil Nadu, South of Andhra Pradesh, South-East of Karnataka and Kerala get the maximum showers during…

As the name suggests, acid rain can be said to be the precipitation of acid in the form of rain in the most straightforward manner. When atmospheric pollutants like oxides of Nitrogen and sulphur react with rainwater and are available with the rain, this leads to Acid Rain. The acidic deposition takes place in two…

Biodiversity is actually present in all around us, in the potted mosquitoes and plants in our homes, to the millions of various species of plants and animals that exist in the deepest jungles and forests in the world. In simple words, biodiversity actually refers to the plentitude of fauna and flora around us in the…

Biodiversity is an amalgamation of two words – biological and diversity.  Therefore, the definition of the term ‘biodiversity’ encompasses a large variety of living organisms coexisting in an ecosystem.  Biodiversity ranges from the tiniest microbes to the largest mammal.  It also includes several species of bacteria, plants, animals, and humans.  The recent study discovered 8.7…

Biodiversity is all around us, in the potted plants and mosquitoes in our homes, to the millions of species of animals and plants that exist in the deepest forests and jungles in the world. In simple words, biodiversity refers to the plentitude of flora and fauna around us in the world, on planet earth. It…

The definition of climate states that the word “climate’ is used to refer to long term periodic variations in the weather patterns that are observed over centuries. Ever since the Earth was created, it is going through many changes simultaneously, and this leads to climate change. Climate change happens cyclically, it had started from a…

Disaster can be of both man-made as well of natural causes. Earthquakes, floods and volcanic eruptions are usually considered as natural disasters while bomb explosion, gas leakage and wars are considered as man-made disasters. These categorizations of disaster as man-made and natural are in itself a dispute because certain natural calamities are directly linked to…