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In the present plastic age plastics have appeared as highly versatile and immensely beneficial materials to human society. As the most recently used plastic polymers are highly resistant to...
12 December 2017 2,107 8 View
Metal nanoparticles are showing promise in tackling different problems in different domains of environment. How they can be used in aquatic ecosystems? What are different likely interactions? What...
09 September 2017 10,136 2 View
Agricultural productivity is undoubtedly being affected by global warming and climate change. The rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, associated temperature rise and rainfall have...
08 August 2017 6,008 45 View
The roles of rhizospheric bacteria in case of terrestrial plants are well studied. They establish 'give together' condition and show any of mutualism, commensalism, amensalism or pathogenic...
08 August 2017 9,797 4 View
Planet Earth inclusive of humanity is facing the unprecedented twin crisis of global warming and climate change which are impacting all systems and sectors transgressing all boundaries. There are...
07 July 2017 1,788 4 View
We often adopt reductive and quick fix approaches towards solving environmental problems. In the process we invite many new problems to solve one. We should consider the entire (eco)system...
07 July 2017 659 1 View
Evolution runs in perpetuity for billions of years, with innumerable remarkableinnovations inspired and catalyzed by both cooperation and conflict. Bacteria in nature are categorized into...
07 July 2017 3,982 1 View
The infinite information contained in all life forms on Earth is recoreded in the largest encyclopedia of life (biodiversity). This encyclopedia of life is indeed the most valuable of all of our...
07 July 2017 6,674 6 View
What is meant by ecosystem health? Give an idea of ecosystem health profile. State the indicators of ecosystem health? How health deterioration is diagnosed? How can health of an ecosystem be...
06 June 2017 4,300 3 View
Assessment of soil quality and health is invaluable in evaluating the sustainability of the agricultural system. Using a suite of indicators of soil quality and health can be the very effective...
06 June 2017 6,244 34 View
Probiotics are working of life (living organisms, esp. bacteria) for life, by life and in life's suitable niche. They favour friends and ward off enemies, boosts immunity, maintain balance of the...
06 June 2017 2,116 4 View
Mother Nature has developed all life forms, processes, methods, tools, techniques, algorithms that are time-tested and developed as a result of experiments, trials and optimization in her grand...
05 May 2017 8,697 9 View
The multifaceted environmental challenges of resource degradation and drawdown facing humanity in the twenty first century demand a holistic, "win-win" problem solving approach by adopting...
05 May 2017 7,718 1 View
Humans are regarded as the most intelligent species living on the Earth. But are they the dangerous pests or the deadliest predators plaguing on the Earth?!! What are the ways, means and measures...
05 May 2017 6,176 1 View
The de facto slogan of modern industrial man is "Heat, beat and treat" or "take, make and throw". But Mother Nature do everything in the other way, following the sustainability principles. We can...
05 May 2017 273 1 View
There are two different opinions regarding the current global warming and accompanied climate change. IPCC has seen direct human hand behind this unprecedented crisis of fossil fuel based/carbon...
05 May 2017 5,975 64 View
Our mother Earth and and mother Nature inclusive of humanity are facing a plethora of pathological symptoms in their different domains- atmosphere, hydrosphere, pedosphere, and biosphere. Humans...
05 May 2017 9,032 3 View
Take a stand and justify with logic and literature
05 May 2017 8,794 15 View
To tackle the increasing problems of draw down, depredation and degradation (pollution) of environmental resources we are trying to promote green products, green processes, green technologies,...
05 May 2017 1,193 6 View
Open your head, heart and mind and share your thoughts on whether the carbon-based civilization is the root cause of major environmental woos and pathological symptoms of the ailing planetary...
04 April 2017 4,387 6 View
Define science and philosophy. Distinguish between them. How are they related. How philosophy enriches science? Are they complementary to each other? How science develops new philosophy?
04 April 2017 9,720 2 View
Environmental education has been introduced as compulsory subject at all levels of education from primary to graduate (college) level but often it remains as a neglected one. We hardly find any...
04 April 2017 5,389 7 View
What's definition of evolution which is equally application for life and ecosystem? Why is evolution urgent? What are the roles of time, environment, innovation in the evolution and perpetuity of...
04 April 2017 1,958 2 View
There is always a dynamic balance in nature, be it homeostasis in local ecosystem to the grand scale of global homeostasis. Human is interfering with the working of nature and tending to...
04 April 2017 1,632 2 View
Ecosystems are outstanding examples of sustainable systems. We can borrow sustainability principles (I personally regard those principles as "sustainability mantra") from Mother Nature. They are...
04 April 2017 3,407 4 View
To save our environment, to save ourselves we often talk about organic philosophy which can offer ecological - , economic- and social sustainability and sound health of our planet Earth. It can be...
04 April 2017 1,543 2 View
If we put restraint in resource exploitation/use and consumerism from personal to industrial level and local to global scale we will be able to shrink our ecological footprint and can be able to...
04 April 2017 9,255 3 View
No string of my thought or personal clue is provided. Feel free to share your views and thoughts.
04 April 2017 6,708 3 View
Instead of living within the annual interest that biophysical wealth of Nature gives us, we are using up our natural capital. We are taking more resources than Nature/Earth can provide and ...
04 April 2017 4,073 21 View
Sustainability and sustainable development are the catch phrases and centre-stage of all discussion in the arena of economic, environmental, social, educational activities and what not!...
04 April 2017 7,589 69 View
Mother Nature has the awesome R&D laboratory of her own. She has invented time-tested and trusted algorithms, optimized structures, designs, processes, tools, techniques, means and measures...
04 April 2017 7,562 3 View
Increased urbanization is claiming green spaces in one hand and its air, water, soil is polluted more day by day. Wastes generated are mounting at an exponential rate. Practically some cities have...
04 April 2017 4,367 7 View
Exergy represents the biogeochemical energy of an ecosystem and is significantly related to degree of organization of an ecosystem. Emergy, on the other hand is the total quantum of solar energy...
03 March 2017 9,402 1 View
Biodiversity is the variety and variability of life forms on earth. It is the internet of life or the world wide web of life that is expanded all across our mother planet Earth to form the global...
03 March 2017 2,826 3 View
Redox state and prevailing ambiance influence heavy metal inactivation and detoxification as well as transformation of nutrients (C, N & P) in soil and aquatic environment
01 January 2017 6,929 6 View
Earthworms are regarded as the farmer's friend, earth's outstanding soil processor, recycler, composter and "Cinderella of organic farming". Their gut is the home of hundreds and thousands of...
01 January 1970 6,356 4 View
