Water Pollution  Air and water are two most essential ingredients necessary for the existence of life. Air is unlimited. But there is limitation of fresh water, required for the human beings’ consumption. So, there is need to conserve water, by its judicious use and by protecting it from the pollutants. Our water resources are depleting very fast. We need to take action. It has been predicted that the future wars would...

Indian Forests  In its natural state, a forest remains in a relatively fixed, self-regulated condition over a long period of time. Climate, soil, and the topography of the region determine the characteristic trees of a forest. Insects and diseases are a continuing menace to forests. Various insects devastate extensive areas by defoliation, while others serve as carriers for the causative agents of plant diseases that destroy trees. There is enough evidence...

Earth Can Satisfy our needs but not Greet The earth has enough for man’s need but not for man’s greed was what one of India’s greatest visionaries, Mahatma Gandhi had to say. With 5th June being decreed as World Environment Day, one wonders whether the date will just come around and go with people holding functions to commemorate the occasion, mouthing platitudes, and then forgetting all the ground realities till the...

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...