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Global warming has resulted in causing drastic changes in the climatic conditions and weather patterns all over the world. This phenomenon has caused a number of cyclic changes in the world, one causing the other starting with the overall increase in the average temperature.More...
Soil erosion is but a natural process. It happens everywhere. The issue with soil erosion is that when it blows or washes away the top soil, the land becomes totally or less unfit for crop growing. The tops soil has most of the nutrients that are needed for growth of any vegetation.More...
Where Does Acid Rain Come From ?
“Acid Rain” is a broad term referring to a mixture of wet and dry deposited material from the atmosphere containing higher than normal amounts of nitric and sulphuric acids. The acidic deposition can be caused by natural phenomena like volcanoes and decaying vegetation or man-made sources like fossil fuel combustion.More...
Ozone is the layer of colourless gas formed by the ultravilot radiation on oxygen found in the upper atmosphere of the earth in the stratosphere that prevents the ultravilot radiations coming from the son to reach earth and thus prevents the life on earth. It was first foun out in 1970 that ozone layer was getting depleted due to industrial wastes, smoke from factories and vehicles, deforestation and various other man made pollutants.More...
Desertification, as defined in Chapter 12 of "Agenda 21" and in the International Convention on Desertification, is the degradation of the land in arid, semi-arid and sub-humid dry areas caused by climatic changes and human activities.More...
Local mean sea level (LMSL) is the average height of the sea measured over a period of time. Increase in the water levels of the sea above the Local mean sea level due to global warming and the melting of glaciers and icebergs and excessive rains etc is called sea level Rise.More...