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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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August 22, 2024 Recommended

Environmental Problems and their global perspective

Our environment today is facing a number of problems. All those problems are causing dangers to take shape against the existence of the whole biosphere of this planet. But who is behind all those problems? The answer is – M A N.

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August 11, 2024 Recommended

The Limit of Tolerance of Environment

We have been hearing about environmental pollution, loss of biodiversity, energy crisis, and the sustainable environment since long. So many things have already been infused in school syllabi as well. But how many of us really apply in our real life the things about which we have read in our classes?

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November 1, 2024 Recommended

Conservation of Wildlife

Conservation of species in their natural habitats- in areas where they occur under normal conditions is called in-situ conservation.

This type of conservation strategy protects the entire area. Such an area is protected and maintained to conserve all the known or unknown species inhabiting it.

In this type of conservation, species are not isolated or provided with health care, food, or mating facilities. Only factors detrimental to species’ existence and development are eliminated in this conservation strategy. Human interference, such as hunting, cutting down trees, collecting firewood, etc., is completely banned in such areas.

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January 6, 2022 Recommended

Flow of Nutrients in Ecosystem

The flow of nutrients in ecosystem takes place in cyclic pathways through food chains, food webs and bio-geo-chemical cycles. Food…

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March 23, 2023 Recommended

Landfilling and Incineration

Land-filling is the process of disposing solid waste in low lands or into trenches through proper sanitary methods. It involves- collection, transport, compaction, etc. processes along with proper management for gas-outlet etc. For land filling, the important thing to be taken into account is the distance of waste collection site to the waste dumping site, because it involves cost of transportation.

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December 15, 2020 Recommended

Jharkhand to Link Farmers with Mushroom Propagation

The Government of Jharkhand is preparing to add one more link in the chain of creating income source for farmers of the state.

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October 23, 2021 Recommended

Questions and answers on Heredity/Bio- X

1. Trait-A exists in 10% of a population of an asexually reproducing species and trait-B in 60%of the same population….

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July 21, 2021 Recommended

Our Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems

Brain and Spinal cord together constitute the Nervous System. The nervous system receives information in the form of impulses from all parts of the body and integrates this information.

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December 3, 2021 Recommended

First December, the World Aids Day: The Danger Still Waits

The World Aids Day is celebrated the world over on the first December every year to make the public aware about the infection of HIV (Human Immuno Virus).The celebration of this day on the world scale was first started by the World Health Organisation in 1987.

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October 16, 2024 Recommended

Biodiversity and its Importance

Biodiversity and other sources supply raw materials to many important industries. They have aesthetic value and appeal for ecotourism, which supports the growth of the national economy. They are also potential sources of pharmaceuticals, other chemicals, agricultural materials, etc.

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October 10, 2020 Recommended

Take care of Body Joints

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.

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