Linking of Rivers : A Mixed Blessing India is a country where ‘a lot depends upon the moods of monsoons. This is truer in for the agricultural sector. A large part of the arable land in India is rain fed. If monsoon fails the budget goes haywire. There are a lot of plans which try to decrease this dependency on monsoon. One such project is river water linking or National Water...

People Participation and Environmental Protection  One of the most confounding questions facing the third world countries in the face is, whether there is a conflict between environmental protection and development. With industrial revolution, people lost sight of the environmental issues, and concentrated on developmental issues only. No thought was given to the fact that more and more goods and services would likely harm the environment. The true implications of damage to...

Dangers to Biodiversity  As the world moves further into the 21st century, there is no question that its biodiversity is under threat from several sources. Perhaps the greatest of them all is the sheer ignorance of what it comprises. Put simply, biodiversity refers to the number of species of wild plants and animals a country possesses. The UN has a Convention on Biological Diversity in place since 1993, which has been...

Plastics and Advertisements  Plastic is a product that is very common in our everyday usage. Usage of plastics is everywhere ranging for Tupperware to the cars and we drive. Though it seems that plastics make our lives  easier and has become essential element in our daily life, certainly there are people out there who are perhaps unaware of how important plastics are to our society, or people who just don’t approve...

Ecological considerations and Development must go together Developmental processes of the world today are often blamed for the destruction of ecology, as it causes pollution through the smoke being belched out be chimneys in the various factories etc., and through effluents being constantly dumped into the rivers and underground. The result is, no doubt, disastrous. The big cities have become dens of pollution, despite all the facilities of modern civilized societies...

Endangered Species Endangered species are living beings whose population is so reduced that they are on the verge of extinction. Thousands of species are included in this category. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources publishes a list of endangered species, which comprise mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and plants. Earlier before arrival of humans, extinction of living things was associated to geological and climatic, the effects of...

Chemical Waste Disposal Chemical spills are major problems that pestilence the environment Disposal of harmful chemicals is often difficult and costly. Since chemical waste has destroyed the environment in more than one way, steps are being taken to prevent further damage. Some local company offered to donate expired chemicals to local schools. The chemicals have expired in the date in which they can be used but it would be fine to...

Recycling and The Cost Factor  The natural resources will not last forever, eventually everything comes to an end and the end is very near with the depletion of natural resources. People dispose lots of stuff, and simply do not care. Recycling is a way to reuse stuff. This technique seemed quite successful at the beginning, until its true identity appeared. Recycling has been very useful specially that man is continually consuming,...