Ferns belong to Pteridophytes and grow on high altitudes in moist cold places. These don’t need any fertile soil. Since Ranchi or the most part of Jharkhand is located on high land its climate is rather different and somewhat similar to those area of mountains. The author reports here the two fern species that preferably grow in this region that too on old walls.
In the early stages of COVID-19, when the world was in terror, and no way of treatment was seen, the public of India depended on the traditional systems of healthcare.
Singhara is known as the Water Caltrop in English. In Botany it is known as Trapa nutans. Its other two species are Trapa bicornis, and Trapa rossica. The later is an endangered species.
A forest is a highly complex and constantly changing environment. It is made up of a variety of living things like wildlife, trees, shrubs, wildflowers, ferns, mosses, lichens, fungi and microscopic soil organisms; and non-living things such as water, nutrients, rocks, sunlight and air. Trees are the biggest part of this complex community.
Land management is the process of managing the use and development of land resources in rural and urban areas.
The organic matter formed through degradation of decomposable biomass and which is rich in nutrients for the growth and development of plants is called as compost.
Growth and movements in plants occur due to internal and external factors. Plant hormones are internal factors while light, touch, gravity and other stimuli are external factors that affect plant growth and movements.
Dayan system is a traditional bad practice and superstition in Jharkhand. If we compare this system with other states we see that it is graver in Jharkhand. In this state more than 1231 women are declared as Dayan per year. After being declared as Dayan these women are differently tortured and pained sometimes up to death.
The Envelope of air held around the earth by its magnetic force, gravity or geomagnetism, is called the atmosphere.
Living beings interact with each other, with members of other species, and with components of the abiotic environment in an…
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.
