Man is surrounded by various life forms, forces and conditions- both physical and biological. Sunlight, land, air and water form physical conditions whereas all the plants, animals, and microorganisms form biological conditions.
Pakad or Ficus virens is one significant tree of the Panchvati group. Panchvati is the group of five sacred or important trees worshipped and adorned in the Hindu culture since ancient time.
Dr. M. P. Mishra is a noted environmentalist of India. He is known for his researches in environment conservation, wildlife activism, and for his writings.
The acid rain affects living and non- living components of environment. In July 1982, Stockholm- the venue of U N –conference on acid rain, suffered heavy acid showers for about a week. In India too, acid rains have been reported since last twenty years in areas where thermal power plants are located and also around Delhi, the capital of India.
Hindus and Hindu tribals believe that certain Gods live on some trees. They worship these trees and protect by all means. These trees are called as sacred groves.
Kurry plant is a tropical or sub-tropical plant. It taxonomically belongs to family Rutaceae
The concept of joint forest management was initiated on a large scale through guidelines issued by the government of India in 1990. According to those guidelines the village communities are to be involved in the development and protection of degraded forests based on taking their genuine share of benefits from those forests.
The comfortable life style has reduced mobility of men, women, and children. The lock down during COVID-19 period has restricted human movement up to greater extent. Under these conditions arthritis may become a reason behind problems of joints.
The Wind is Air in Motion. It is caused by differential heating of land, water, hills and mountain slopes by sun rays. About 25 % (i.e., 0.34 KW/m2) of incident solar radiation is dissipated as wind energy. There is kinetic energy in wind.
Auxins move to darker side of the part of a plant and cause cells of that side to grow larger. These may induce cell division as well. In both of these cases the part of the plant bends.
Our natural resources are known to have some specific qualities of their own. These qualities are known as natural qualities. It is due to specific natural qualities that different natural resources have been useful to us and to the whole biosphere. But now, the condition has changed considerably. Most of our natural resources like air, water and soil have gone bad due to pollution of different types. What is pollution?
An incident of invasion by a living species into entirely new habitat thereby threatening the existence of native species is called as bioinvasion or Biological Invasion.
