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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February 20, 2022 Recommended

Advantages and Disadvantages of a Nuclear Family

Introduction to Nuclear Family A nuclear family is a small family unit consisting of parents and their children. In modern…

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July 1, 2021 Recommended

Grow Pakad for more oxygen

Pakad or Ficus virens is one significant tree of the Panchvati group. Panchvati is the group of five sacred or important trees worshipped and adorned in the Hindu culture since ancient time.

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January 27, 2021 Recommended

Management and Protection of Crops

Proper arrangement of resources and techniques to check losses to crops through different factors is called as Crop Protection Management.

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December 20, 2021 Recommended

The Problems of Waste in our surrounding

Substances that are thrown out to some place due to their uselessness or excreted out of our body are called as waste substances.

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May 7, 2022 Recommended

Biotic Components of Ecosystem

Living beings in environment like animals and plants constitute more than half of the environment in the biosphere. All of these need to be conserved.

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May 22, 2022 Recommended

Diversity of leaves and Leaf-fall

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.

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December 25, 2024 Recommended

Joint Forest Management (JFM) and National Scenario

The concept of joint forest management was initiated on a large scale through guidelines issued by the government of India in 1990. According to those guidelines the village communities are to be involved in the development and protection of degraded forests based on taking their genuine share of benefits from those forests.

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February 15, 2025 Recommended

Modern Agriculture and Monoculture

More than half of the population of the world comprises farmers. These farmers know that maintaining and conserving natural resources are very important to sustain their lives. However, the demand of more and more food due to the exploding population and higher expectations for comfort and wealth enforces these farmers to exploit more and more of the natural resources through the application of modern technology. The agriculture based on the latest farm machinery, hybrid and high-yielding crop varieties and agrochemicals is called as modern agriculture. Under the changing trends of modern agriculture, the difficult situation of maintaining and conserving natural resources is being faced the world over in the agriculture sector.

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March 14, 2021 Recommended

Woo Back Lovely Sparrows to Our Homes

Sparrow or the House Sparrow taxonomically belongs to the family Passeridae. It is found in most parts of the world.

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November 29, 2021 Recommended

The new variant of corona is more dangerous- reports WHO

The whole world is worried due to the new variant of corona Omicron. The era of lockdowns has again started because Omicron is seen as more deadly variant. WHO has declared that it disseminates faster and is more dangerous. Everyone has been warned to strengthen securities.

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May 10, 2023 Recommended

Land Management and Need of Land Management

Land management is the process of managing the use and development of land resources in rural and urban areas.

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