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.
There are various uses of Solar Energy. Farmers in Traditional Farming Communities used to solarise fields by living them empty after a deep ploughing during summers. It killed insects and pests. Human skin synthesizes vitamin-D when exposed to sunlight for short durations. Mothers used to make their babies sleep in the sun after oiling their bodies during winters in order to keep them healthy and strong.
Works done inside houses include works related to livelihood, child rearing, some small scale industries, human services, office works and indoor plays etc
There are many different types of technologies or technological models- such as Low-tech, Hi-tech, alternative, intermediate, appropriate, blended, hard, and soft technologies.
Since October 1st to November 9th, a total of 92 incidents of forest-fires have been recorded that have burnt about 133.55 ha of forest in Uttarakhand.
Many squirrels had made nests in upper portions of offices by depositing huge balls of wool like materials between the rows of files and old registers. Many times and many men spotted some or the other squirrel coming to the rows of files and registers placed there since many-many years. But since squirrels usually don’t destroy papers, as I think, nobody ever tried to disturb them.
Biofertilizers: Definition, Types, Benefits, and Uses in Sustainable Agriculture The fertilizers of biological origin that don’t contain any chemicals detrimental…
Pulses are full of goodness. Pulses and breads in the breakfast, pulses and rice in the lunch, pulses and vegetables along with bread in the dinner, pulses come in all our foods.
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.
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.
The processes of development through years have spurred on unplanned urbanization, extensive industrialization followed by different types of pollutions, construction of a series of mega dams, and large-scale application of Agro-chemicals. In the process, different parts of the world have started facing ecological crises.
There are three phases of development of technology- invention, innovation and diffusion. The invention is a process which incorporates wide range of ideas, material things, and human behaviour in new systematic ways.
