Environmental Studies

The adverse effects of climate change due to global warming and the broad policy direction to take the remedial effects to mitigate them.

Part – 2 Adverse effects of climate change driven by global warming on life that exists on planet earth in particular human life. Every year, the planet is heating up more. Experts say that 2023 was the hottest year ever in the planets recorded history. The problem appears to get worse as years pass by. […]

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The adverse effects of climate change due to global warming and the broad policy direction to take the remedial effects to mitigate them.

The article will consist of broad areas Climate change, driven by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, has profound adverse effects on living beings, including humans, animals, and plants. Let’s delve into some of the major adverse impacts: 1. Higher Average Temperatures:    – Global warming leads to higher average temperatures. Since

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Hydroelectric power is no panacea for the green energy crisis and for arresting climate change. (Part-2)

Wisdom beacons us to avoid the repeat of Kedarnath like the death dance of Lord Shiva- Tandon sir Once you become aware of the fragile ecosystem of the Himalayan region and the kind of hazards involved, the serious question starts hounding you how far should we go on the present spree of establishing hydroelectric power

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Hydroelectric power is no panacea for the green energy crisis and for arresting climate change.

Wisdom beacons us to avoid the repeat of Kedarnath like the death dance of Lord Shiva- Tandon sir It is well known that energy production methods are Nuclear, Hydroelectric, Coal-fired, Geothermal, Solar, Wind, and tidal power plants. The steam engine was sort of a startup for not just the Industrial Revolution. Further, when it got

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The floods restore the microbial and nutritional life of depleted soils.

It is not the flood but the bad planning and poor disaster management that brings misery to people and loss of livestock- Tandon Sir Some definitions and keywords. TRADE WINDS-The trade winds or easterlies are the permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in the Earth’s equatorial region. LIVESTOCK- Livestock is the domesticated animals raised in

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A volcanic eruption is nature’s way of celebrating Deepawali.

Part:-1 A volcano is usually thought of as shooting up rocks and burning lava. Although their sight may be spectacular and a tourist main attraction, they could be disastrous often. The origin and activity of volcanoes on the globe are a matter of intense interest and enormous scientific research.  Magma is an extremely hot liquid

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Natural and man-made disaster: What do we understand by a disaster (Part 2)

From the time in memorial, natural disasters have been there. However, as the pace of our life gets faster and modern, not only natural but industries many of which involve the storage of toxic gases and chemicals have further contributed to it.Some days it rains so heavily that we cannot step out of home and

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Natural and man-made disasters: An introduction

Nature has a myriad of weapons to combat human arrogance. On the planet earth,  enormous energy storages exist in forms such as ocean tidal energy, wind energy, geothermal energy, seismic energy. It is important to appreciate that these energy storages are not static but dynamic i.e these energies keep transforming from one form to another

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Why should the youth of India worry about Climate change?

“We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis. And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself.” by environmental activist ‘Greta Thunberg’ The climate means a statistical distribution of weather patterns and when such changes last for an extended period of time.

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