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Man-Animal Conflict-A Rising Concern
Man-animal conflicts are on the rise. The diminishing and depleting forest areas, habitat degradation, fragmentation of the forests and vanishing corridors are forcing wild animals to move out in to t...
By the Sea: Maldives
The Maldives with a population of 270,000 has been isolated from the outside world for much of its history. The affable people here have adapted to island life with the main source of nutrition being...
Chhattisgarh Dance and Music
Home to myriad tribes that trace their ancestry to mythological times, songs, dances and plays of the State of Chhattisgarh are unique and indeed a treat for the senses. The beat of the drums and lilt...
The Carbon Cycle
Carbon dioxide is the most available form of carbon for living organisms and the process by which it is cycled around the ecosystem, quickly or over million years is called the carbon cycle (Fig. 1)....
The Nitrogen cycle
Nitrogen is an element vital to all life processes on Earth . It comprises of 78 per cent of the atmosphere, and is embedded in every living tissue. It is a component of amino acids, proteins and nucl...
Climate change and renewable energy
IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation, 2011. As emission rates substantially exceed natural removal rates, concentrations of CO2 will continue to increase, whi...
Continental Drift the Geological Jigsaw
The jigsaw fit, one of the strongest evidences of Continental Drift Theory was propagated by A Wegener in 1912. Although remarked upon way back in 1620, with several scientists believing that the pres...
Indian plate movement earthquake and Tsunami risk Zones
The Indian plate, separated from the Antarctic, started moving to the north northeast about 180 million years ago. The present day movement of the Indian plate from the Carlsberg spreading ridge resul...
Earth Balance: Isostasy
Earth’s crust is relatively lighter as compared to the denser mantle over which it lies and therefore behaves as if it is floating. Areas of the earth’s crust rise or subside to accommodate added load...
Beneath the Ocean Floor
In recent years it has been possible to explore geological activity on the deep ocean floor. Using a submersible research vessel such as the United States’ Alvin, scientists have been able to make per...