Growing a single crop species over a large area or farm is called intensive farming or monoculture. Earlier practices of mixed cropping caused problems in crop management, like harvesting, etc. Uniformity in plant height adds beauty to our fields and makes the application of agrochemicals easy. It also saves time and energy in segregating grains in threshing.
Some environmentalists define land pollution as – build up of toxic chemical compounds, salts, pathogens or radioactive materials in soil that can affect plant and animal life adversely, is called as soil pollution.
Mode of nutrition through which an organism depends on other organisms for food due to its inability to synthesise food is called as heterotrophic nutrition.
We may know that there are two types of disasters: Natural and Manmade or Human Induced Disasters. Disasters that occur…
Studies and researches that are done in different fields from time to time show increasing complexities in organisms than their ancestors. These studies and evidences show many important evidences of organic evolution.
The condition produced due to ‘substances put into air by the activity of mankind into concentration sufficient to cause harmful effects to his health, vegetables, property or to interfere with the enjoyment of his property’ is called as air pollution or the atmospheric pollution
The year 2022 has remained a year of big scientific achievements. In it, the discovery of probability of wormhole and Dart campaign of NASA in space science have been remarkable. On the other hand, the revolutionary event of heart transplant of a pig that was genetically engineered, also happened in the field of surgery.
Many food items in India have some special values. These food items not only provide us many nutrients, they provide us many phytochemicals that protect our bodies from many external factors as well.
Fossil fuels- coal, petroleum and natural gas, are sources of energy and lots of useful substances. They have been and still they are the back bones of the economic developments and the basis of the modern civilization.
As environment is common heritage and property of all nations of the world, the science of environment should also combine relevant matter so as to promote the value and necessities of local, national and international co-operation in the prevention and solution of environmental problems across the globe.
Following principles and guidelines have been accepted for the control of different types of pollution- A. Prevention of entry into…
An act was passed on December 18 in the year 2006 in order to safeguard the forest rights of traditional forest dwellers in India. This act is called as the Scheduled Tribe and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006.
