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EARTH SCIENCE Understanding the Classification of the Biomes of the World

<p>No two ecosystems in locations around Earth can be said to have the exact assortment of species forming habitats in them. However, terrestrial ecosystems and biological communities of organisms can be classified into categories on the basis of climatic features and the predominant plant forms appearing in these locations. </p>

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DEVELOPMENT Economics in Environmental Sustainability

<p>The Brundtland Commission in its report titled Our Common Future in 1987 defined the concept of sustainable development as development addressed towards the needs of the future as well as towards the needs of the present policy architecture.</p>

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भूगोल और आप शहरों में मलिन बस्तियों का विकास तथा लक्षण

<p>ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों से लोग शहरों में रोजगार की तलाश में आते हैं। ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों में रोजगार के अभाव में ये लोग शहरों में ही बसने का प्रयास करते हैं तथा भीड़-भाड़ में वृद्धि कर मलिन बस्ती की उत्पत्ति में सहायक सिद्ध होते हैं।</p>

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ECOLOGY Biodiversity as Conservation | ThreatsbConservation Efforts

<p>Thomas Lovejoy in 1980 coined the term ‘Biological Diversity’ which was later modified by E. O. Wilson in 1986 who coined the term ‘Biodiversity’ in his report for the first American Forum on Biological Diversity.</p>

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भूगोल और आप मनुष्य व पर्यावरण अवनयन - विकास से विनाश की ओर

<p>मनुष्य व पर्यावरण एक दूसरे को प्रभावित करते हैं। मनुष्य व पर्यावरण को प्रभावित करने वाले कई कारक हैं, किन्तु उनमें तीन उल्लेखनीय हैं। प्रथम, जैवभौतिक सीमाओं द्वारा (Biophysical limitations), द्वितीय &#8211; आचारपरक नियंत्रणों द्वारा (Behavioural controls) तथा संसाधन की सुलभता द्वारा।</p>

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DEVELOPMENT Spatial Data a Boon for Decision-making Development

<p>Like the geospatial agency in Karnataka, West Bengal and Uttarakhand government agencies have also generated SDI in their respective states, with help from the Natural Resources Data Management System (NRDMS), under the department of science and technology of the Central government.</p>

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TECHNOLOGY Natural Resources Data Management System (NRDMS) Helping Create a GIS Ecosystem

<p>The Natural Resources Data Management System (NRDMS) is an initiative of Department of Science and Technology of Government of India, conceived to help Policy makers and planners to formulate developmental strategy.</p>

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TECHNOLOGY NRDMS Aims Push for the Start-Up Ecosystem in India

<p>GIS or Geographic Information Systems and other forms of spatial data management and application are increasingly becoming a core component of the information technology (IT) infrastructure of India.</p>

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DESERTIFICATION Very Severe Cyclonic Storm OCKHI

<p>A trough of low at mean sea level lay over southwest Bay of Bengal &amp; adjoining Sri Lanka coast on 27th November, it was seen as a low pressure area over southwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining areas of southern Sri Lanka.</p>

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ENVIRONMENT Climate Change in the Southern Ocean

<p>Climate Change in the Southern Ocean thus is principally relevant when the huge volume of water it possesses stores greater heat and carbon dioxide than any other stretch of latitudinal area in the world. Like in the Arctic Ocean, sea ice also forms in the Southern Ocean in areas reaching up to three times the size of Australia.</p>

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