Environment and its components like wildlife and Natural Resources constitute the vital life support system for all life on this planet. The protection of these through the cumulative efforts of the world community started across globe due to the persistent efforts of the United Nations through its Environmental Programme (UNEP).
By this first week of December, paddy is coming home from fields in most of the states of India. In spite of claims of Government’s preparations on ground levels are still incomplete. Agencies have been reported to interfere in the process. They are pretending that they are unwilling to purchase rice due to more than 17% moisture in grains
Two organisms- male and female are essential for sexual reproduction. Now let us study some basic methods of reproduction in single organisms.
Sankranti or Solstice means: moving from one place to the other or meeting with another. When sun enters from one rashi o the other rashi, it is called as Sankranti.
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.
Ecological Niche Dictionary defines the term Niche as a comfortable or suitable position in the life of a living being or a role taken by a type of organism within its community. In other words, an ecological niche is the role and position a species has in its environment, for example, how it meets its food and shelter needs, survives, and reproduces. A species’ niche includes all of its interactions with its environment’s biotic and abiotic factors.
Brain and Spinal cord together constitute the Nervous System. The nervous system receives information in the form of impulses from all parts of the body and integrates this information.
Adolescence remains a critical phase of life. Extra efforts are to be put in managing teens especially in a disturbed period like spread of a pandemic when we have to remain indoors during a lockdown.
Everyone wishes to increase his body immunity in the current fearful period of corona. Earlier, very few talked about immunity and no- one probably ever talked to make efforts for increasing it.
Ant colonies are Eusocial which means living in a cooperative group in which usually one female and several males are reproductively active and the non-breeding individuals care for the young and protect the group. These are very much like those found in other social animals though the various groups of these developed sociality independently through convergent evolution.
As per an assessment, about 600 million people inhabited urban areas of the world in the year 1950. But now urban areas have been recorded to be inhabited by about half of the total population.
Fried and roasted food rush into our memory today because lock down has locked us inside. As a result the forgotten dishes are now being served on the table. Stuffed brinjal, stuffed lady’s finger, stuffed Shimla mirch, parval etc. taste double when fried. The maincourse items that were long banned in the kitchen are occupying their places on the dining table.
