The Ecotrends

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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May 3, 2021 Recommended

How do Organisms get Their Food?

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.

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October 25, 2020 Recommended

Flights of Birds

Discoveries and inventions have made human lives easy and comfortable. Men have stopped walking long distances. But his does not relate to flying of birds. They continue flying and flying for ages very high and up to amazingly long distances.

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October 16, 2022 Recommended

Study of Environment

Environment may be defined as ‘Complete range of various sets of external conditions comprising- physical, biological, and for human beings- cultural, economic and political conditions; in which human beings and other life forms exist in continuous interactions among themselves.

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July 22, 2022 Recommended

Human environment interaction

man is causing serious impacts on environment. Concrete jungles do not allow rain water to enter into the gound. As such water table is falling down.

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September 18, 2022 Recommended

Combating Global Warming and Climate Change

The Industrial Policy Initiative undertaken by the Central Government in July 1991, made the Indian Industry to compete on International Levels. As a result, an Industrial Licensing Policy was adopted in 1991. It was followed by a number of steps like Liberalization of Foreign Investment in Banking Sector, Technological Collaboration with other countries, Creation of Special Economic Zones and, Simplification of Industrial Licensing and Promotion of Exports etc.

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May 18, 2022 Recommended

Animal body parts and sense organs

Most animals of the same kind have same body parts. But their body parts differ in size, shape, colour and functions.

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December 12, 2020 Recommended

Hands on Experiments- the Best Way to Learn

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December 25, 2022 Recommended

Development of science in 2022

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.

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May 19, 2022 Recommended

Eat Carrot to correct Night Vision

The carrot which is taxonomically known as Daucus Curota sub species sativus is an important plant. It is typically orange or blood red in colour. However, it is found in many colours like white, red, yellow etc. All of these are domesticated forms of the wild carrot.

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December 23, 2020 Recommended

A Strange Bioinsecticide

Ladybird is one uncommon compound word made by the union of two simple common words – Lady and Bird. But, the two simple words when joined together can produce strange effect.

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May 22, 2021 Recommended

Rugda- A Nutrient Packed Vegetable

Rugda or the Lycoperdon or Calvatia or Geastrum is a round ball mushroom mainly indigenous to Jharkhand state of India.

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