The Environmental Calamities that shook the humanity during fifties and sixties were powerful enough to generate serious and widespread sense of responsibility among world nations towards the global environment. Some of these calamities include : The killer smog in New York and London which claimed 5000 lives in 1952; The mercury poisoning due to the consumption of mercury-contaminated seafood in Japan;
The scarcity of oxygen and the need of producing more and more oxygen! We may think for sometime about it. But, anyone knows that life is not possible without it.
Most animals of the same kind have same body parts. But their body parts differ in size, shape, colour and functions.
Many ferns grow along north or west facing walls every year. Their spores might have been there in crevices during the dry season. Unless there is a supply of water from leaking pipe they complete their life cycle within the rainy season and pack up with the passing rains. They pass away and leave for us a lesson to remain happy and survive in hard conditions.
The term animal has its origin from the Latin word animalis which means one who has breath. This word is usually applied for the non-human members of the Kingdom Animalia in animal taxonomy. However, the closer relatives of humans like mammals (having mammary glands) have been included in this term.
Medicinal weed Argemone Mexicana or Satyanasi is a prickly weed. It has been introduced and naturalized in India. It grows as waste land weed in almost every part of the country. It is reported as crop weed also in many parts of the country.
Green plants and trees that synthesize their own food are called as Autotrophs.Others who depend on them are called as Heterotrophs.
The technique of carbon fixation has been developed by Dr. Ram Swaroop Meena of Banaras Hindu University, U.P. – India who has potentized his technique entitled “Low cost Biochar with Integrated Nutrient Management”.
It is the unthinkable huge magnitude of all the ill effects of pollution and its ever-increasing nature, which has forced the whole of humanity to do a great deal of serous thinking about its attitude towards the relationships with the natural environment.
Though there are two basic types of leaves of monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants, we observe immense diversities in their arrangements, sizes, and shapes.
Some leaves are very short, as short as they cannot be seen through naked eyes where as there are big broad leaves that can form many umbrellas for small children.
Plants and trees shed their leaves from time to time. This happens due to a number of reasons. From some plants and tree leaves continue falling throughout the year. At the same time new leaves continue developing to compensate their number.
Most of us have seen owls in our surroundings. Owls are hard to be seen in natural settings because they usually remain active during nights only.
