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Food wastage

Every year, one third of all food produced globally goes to waste. This not only affects our wallets but also has a significant impact on our environment. When food waste ends up in landfills, it releases methane gas, which contributes to climate change. We can reduce food waste by buying only what we need, planning our meals, and composting our food scraps. Let's work together to reduce food waste and make a positive impact on our environment. Food waste is a significant problem that affects individuals, businesses, and the environment. According to the United Nations, approximately one-third of all food produced globally goes to waste each year. This equates to 1.3 billion tonnes of food, which is enough to feed three billion people. Food waste has many negative consequences. Firstly, it is a waste of resources. Producing food requires land, water, energy, and other resources. When food is wasted, these resources are also wasted. This is not only bad for the environment but also ...
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Forest ~ Lungs of Earth

Imagine you woke up in the morning on a comfortable mattress made from wood.You had your breakfast.You took a bus and got a paper ticket.You got to office, sat in your cubical.Blown your nose into a tissue. Forests are a crucial part of our day to day lives in so many ways. Forests are the most important part of our planet earth. They are the greatest natural asset to any area and are of vital importance . For example, forests fulfill all our needs of wood, fuel, fodder, bamboos etc. Forests are important for life on the earth. Three hundred million people global live in forests and 1.6 billion rely upon them for their livelihoods.  Forests additionally provide habitat for a big array of plant life and animals, many of which are nevertheless undiscovered. They protect our watersheds.They supply the oxygen we need to live to. They provide the wooden products we use in our daily lives. Forests are so much more than a collection of bushes.  Forests are domestic to 80% of the aren...
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Nature is inevitable

The world is changing. This drastic change and the turns of events  have made us realise the value of life. The nature is renourshing & replenishing itself. It's abilities are tremendous. Nature is forgiving.It knows how to heal itself.  The lack of human activities is the reason behind it.   In this way, nature is teaching us that it is Inevitable. The lockdown due to covid 19 pandemic. It is giving us time to rethink & introspect within ourselves what we were doing  to our Planet. This is an exotic moment without rush, without engines; we are all together (not physically though) in a sudden strangeness. Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm whales & fishes. And the business men would not look at their hurt hands. There is peace outside. Birds are chirping. The sky is blushing. The trees are dancing. The nature is singing. The rain is pouring down more frequently to cleanse the Earth.  The sky is more blue now.  This is the crucial...
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Key role a Leaf plays in our lives

What a difference a leaf makes! Well, not one leaf. We have 3.04 trillion trees on our planet—that’s 400 trees per person. If we count all the leaves on all those trees and take a look at what they do collectively to the air around us, is stunning. We know they absorb air. Their leaves gobble carbon dioxide, and then, with help from the sun, the carbon stays in the tree. Oxygen gets released. Come winter, the leaves fall off, trees go bare. Without leaves, trees go quiet. Any extra CO2 is more likely to hang in the atmosphere—until June. That’s the month when trillions upon trillions of leaves are opening, growing, & starting to breathe and  their collective breath literally cleaning the sky. It’s like the world’s northern forests become a giant vacuum cleaner, scouring the air, sucking down the CO2 till around November. When leaves fall, the situation reverses … and it feels a little scary It tracks the flow of carbon dioxide across the planet over 12 months, starting in Ja...
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Coal industry is the biggest polluter

Much of the world's energy comes from material formed hundreds of millions of years ago, & there are environmental consequences for it. There were warnings given by the scientists back in 1960's about the harmful effects of these  Perhaps the most damaging effect of petrochemicals is global warming. Thus a primary contributer of climate change. Imagine driving yourself to a petrol pump to fill up your car’s tank & seeing this  notice affixed to the pump: “Warning: Burning fossil fuels kills.” Tobacco packages all over the world display warnings like that. It makes sense, since tobacco kills as many as 8 million people a year around the globe.  Burning fossil fuel doesn’t get the same kind of attention, even though the toxic air pollution it creates kills 7 million people a year. Burning oil, natural gas, & coal  releases gases &   tiny particles that harm human health, leading to respiratory diseases such as asthma, cardiovascular diseases,...
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