Share By Richa Patil: Rapid industrialization around the world during the twentieth century has led to excessive emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the atmosphere, leading to change in climate, which poses the severest threat to world’s ecosystems and human civilization. A protocol to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) known as Kyoto [...]
Share By Adeena Jamal: A good sunday morning is nothing but slothful. You flip through the mornig daily with a hot cup of tea in your bed. But youngsters in Pune have taken a better way to utilise this sluggish morning by planting trees by the Continuous Contour Trenching (CCT) Method on the hills near [...]
Share By Aashu Anshuman: In 1961, India was on the verge of a mass famine. In that moment of crisis MS Swaminathan, the advisor to the Minister of Agriculture very suitably sought help from a certain Norman Borlaug (a.k.a the Father of Green Revolution). The government collaborated with the Ford Foundation and imported modified wheat [...]
Share By Deep Gambhir: Reportedly 165 dead and close to 600 people are still missing, and the toll is increasing each day. The morning of 5th August brought a bunch of grey clouds carrying news of several black years ahead. The cloudburst in the region changed the whole geography of the valley and gave the [...]
Share By Joydeep Sanyal: With the whole world suffering from the sky rocketing oil prices, scientists and researchers have been propagating the need for an effective fossil fuel supplement in the near future. With sustainable development becoming the mantra for most of the developed and developing nations, care must be taken to ensure that the [...]
Share By Richa Patil: Green use, green disposal, green design, and green manufacturing. Green computing or green IT, refers to environmentally sustainable that is sustainability is the capacity to last forever computing or IT. It is “the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated subsystems—such as monitors, printers, storage [...]
Share By Ruchika Joshi: Yes, we as a civilization might be shortly facing a severe energy crisis and yes, one of our major fallbacks then would be the alternative forms of energy being developed currently. We have all heard of them being spoken of incessantly — be it solar energy, wind energy, water energy and [...]
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Share By Radhika Naithani: Even though Punjab is not my native city, my bond with it goes back to the time when I was 12 years of age. My earliest memories of Punjab comprise of gorging hungrily on my favorite makki di roti and sarson da saag and the friendly & hospitable Punjabi households. Because [...]
Share By Akshita Agrawal: Years back shopping meant a visit to the market to purchase a few clothes that served the purpose for a whole year. As times changed, even the meaning of shopping did. From what was restricted to a couple of clothes for a whole year, shopping now means a fortnightly affair. Now [...]
Share By Richa Patil: “Nature is the source of all decoration. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.” The earth is considered as one of the most beautiful planets in the universe. It is the only planet in our galaxy that has enough water to support life. Unfortunately our planet [...]
