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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June 26, 2022 Recommended

Grow Banyan and Tamarind for a better environment

Both the banyan and tamarind trees have large canopy and plenty of leaves. These produce lots of oxygen and absorb lots of carbon dioxide. Thus, besides numerous other benefits they keep up the balance of environment.

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August 26, 2022 Recommended

Community Eating and Mid-Day Meal Programme

Eating together is a traditional practice not only in India but in most of the countries of the world. It is practiced in all types of societies and in all cultures.

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May 12, 2023 Recommended

Technological Development

The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry, is called as technology.

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March 12, 2021 Recommended

Dahlia – One of The Amazing Flowers of winter

The first Dahlia flower in winter of the year was seen by me only today in my school garden. It looked so solitary, innocent and so beautiful that I could not resist the temptation of taking its photograph.

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February 14, 2021 Recommended

Care for the Little Angels around You

The balance of nature is maintained by its different components -living and non-living, if they remain unaltered by human beings.

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August 3, 2021 Recommended

Dangerous Impact of Breaking of Mountains

Landslides are very common in rainy season. Rains caused serious conditions during previous some weeks this year in many villages of Maharashtra. Many of these villages that were located in the laps of mountains vanished within no time.

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June 13, 2022 Recommended

Responsibilities of industries for Environment

New Technologies are developed for improving and increasing industrial production. Similarly, new projects are formulated for providing energy to those…

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October 28, 2024 Recommended

Direct causes of the loss of biodiversity

Species become endangered due to both natural and anthropogenic causes. Since man has no control over natural causes, we should consider anthropogenic causes only. Anthropological causes may be classified into two fundamental categories: Direct Causes and Indirect or underlying causes.

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November 28, 2020 Recommended

Burning of Those Dry Fallen Leaves of Trees

It is reported that about 30 million tones of dry leaves are dumped into landfills every year in America. In India most of these leaves are either burnt on the floor where they fall or collected by poor people and stored for burning during winter season to generate heat.

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October 22, 2021 Recommended

Determination of sex in living organisms

Determining male or female form of living organism through sexual reproduction is called as sex determination. Sex determination on a large scale is of two types- environmental, genetic and chromosome based.

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January 26, 2023 Recommended

Memory of Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha

Yes, 24th January is the memory day of Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha. He was died in a plane accident. Though it was an accident people have different opinions about it. He is called as the Father of India’s Atomic Programme. It is accepted that India would have been a country of Atomic Power if Dr. Bhabha had lived the accident. His death was considered as suspicious

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