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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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Microplastic have been discovered in fruits and vegetables

  Microplastics have been discovered in apples, carrots, pears, broccoli and lettuce, studies have revealed. Root vegetables like radishes, turnips and parsnips may also contain plastic! Scientists had thought that plant roots were unable to absorb microplastics. Microplastics in plants mean they may be having an impact on human health. The tiny pollutants are thought to have been sucked into plants roots with water, and then travelled up the stem into the leaves and, where possible, fruits. A separate study published this week found that plants containing microplastics grew smaller with shorter roots, reducing their yield and nutritional value.  Apples & carrots were shown to be most contaminated with microplastic. A study published earlier this week found that nanoplastics could also be absorbed by plants roots.  'If it is getting into vegetables, it is getting into everything that eats vegetables as well, which means it is in our meat and dairy too.' The results ar...
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Biodegradable v/s Compostable

  Sometimes, we all get confused with these two phrases - Biodegradable & Compostable. Biodegradable materials have the potential to breakdown with the help of the movement of microorganisms including bacteria and fungi, and so on. Bio” which means “life,” “degrade” which means to break down, and “able”   of course meaning that it can happen. Biodegradation is the technique of nature taking its direction and breaking down materials into small parts.  Plastic can breakdown into carbon dioxide, water, and some different matters. Pretty simple, right?The fact is that many of things are biodegradable, if given enough time. Plastics specially are known to take decades or maybe centuries to breakdown naturally, however they will breakdown. So, technically speaking, they're biodegradable. Even diapers, infamous for lasting a long term in landfills, will breakdown ultimately.While a packaging enterprise says that their product is biodegradable, all they sincerely suggest...
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Earth Overshoot Day

  The 22nd August 2020 marks Earth Overshoot Day and it is the first time that it has moved backwards .The last year it was on July 29th that's over three weeks before. Earth Overshoot Day marks the factor at which we’ve used a year’s  worth of resources. The day is calculated by using the the worldwide carbon footprint network which compares how carbon, crops, food, water, forests and many others we’re exploiting  with the planet’s capacity to regenerate and soak up the carbon emitted from the intake.  The consequences of COVID-19 have induced it to arise 3 weeks later than the previous year, but we still  require 1.6 earths worth of resources this year! The record estimated that the pandemic had driven a 14.5-percent decrease in humanity's carbon footprint as compared to 2019. Thankfully, the global Footprint community has a #MoveTheDate movement to chip away at our very own carbon footprint both collectively. If we move the date just five days every 12 months...
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World Environment Day 2020🌱

Plant ~ "Adopt me. They say my parents were killed by something called the development”. Earth is the home different species of flora and fauna. It is vital to understand that by protecting our planet, we are not just protecting other species but also the entire human race.  The Word Environment Day is popularly called "People's Day" to show their care and support for the Earth and their environment. Knowing the ways to protect  the environment is really important. The theme for World Environment Day 2020 is, 'Celebrate Biodiversity'. It makes a speciality of its function in imparting the vital infrastructure that helps existence in the world and also in human development. "With 1 million species facing extinction, there has never been a more important time to spread awareness on biodiversity." Biodiversity is recognized as ecological diversity and contains of various animals, flowers, and other creatures in a specific habitat.  We have to preserve ...
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Earth day🌱

https://youtu.be/-h6MzJ1zZRE "The poetry of the Earth is never dead." Lets get hypnotized in  the beauty of nature. Its so fascinating & mesmerizing. There is a saying, everybody wants to change the world but nobody is ready to change themselves for the world. Perhaps it is time for us to reflect on ourselves (since we are all locked at our homes #covid19 )and ask, what have I done for mother nature? Do you really need to use that much plastic bag? Will you walk to the nearby shop instead of driving? It is all the little things that matters, and if everyone contributes, the planet will be a beautiful place to live it – less resources needs, less destruction and better environment. Paradise on Earth is not a place to find but a decision to make & flowers are the reminder of paradise exist on Earth...  Earth Day 2000 covered 5,000 environmental organisations and 184 countries. Hayes prepared a marketing campaign that targeted on global warming and easy electricity. ...
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Earth is healing

Due to the lockdown announced by the government to contain the spread of COVID-19, nature has begun to flourish.  The benefits of this lockdown is in the air quality in most Indian cities. The cities which were known for their bad air quality have reported 'good' air quality index (AQI). Following the 'janata curfew', air pollution levels dropped 60% in Kolkata, 6% in Mumbai, and 26% in Delhi. We all know the crucial role of ozone layer. Besides the drop in pollution levels, the ozone layer also play an important role in maintaining a balance of climatic conditions. Earth has begun to heal with decreased human activities.  The earth has been healing itself while we stay locked down in our houses. There are reports of Ganges water being sparkling clean, the Himalayas being visible from towns in Punjab, ozone layer sealing, air quality index improving significantly, birds singing in our cities, flamingos flocking Mumbai, animals coming out of hiding and roaming on t...
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Role of CO2 in atmosphere

The atmosphere now contains more carbon than at any time in at least two million years.  Humans pump nearly 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year and about 50 percent of these emissions are absorbed by plants in the terrestrial and ocean.  The carbon stays in the atmosphere for about 200 years . Anthropogenic carbon emissions exceed the quantity that can be taken up or balanced out by using natural sinks.As a end result, carbon dioxide has regularly accumulated within the ecosystem, and as of 2018, its concentration is nearly 48 % above pre-industrial ranges.Numerous strategies were proposed for putting off extra carbon dioxide from the surroundings in carbon dioxide sinks. Presently approximately 1/2 of the carbon dioxide launched from the burning of fossil fuels is not absorbed by way of flora and the oceans and remains inside the environment. After an amount of CO2 is emitted into the atmosphere, 40% will continue to be in the ecosystem for a h...
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Lightning causes climate change

“For every two strikes you get today, you’ll get three strikes at the end of the century,” Lightning has a few less well-known effects. For example, lightning is a major natural cause of wildfires .  It can lead to the formation of ozone. This greenhouse gas traps heat in the atmosphere. So, this has some negative effects in the troposphere is contrary to the beneficial role it plays when formed in the stratosphere, where it shields the Earth from harmful UV radiation from the sun  Global warming could have an electrifying effect. Rising temperatures may increase lightning strikes by 50 %over the next 100 years. Hence, more lightning would cause more warming — that would cause still more lightning, which would boost warming even more.     Climate change will lead to: • Increased moisture in the warmer atmosphere.  • Increased intensity  of the storm. Also the small aerosol particles in the air, such as those in smoke from wildfires or cars , ca...
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Plastic monster

PLASTIC ~ THE REAL MONSTER Plastic floats. This is where our story begins. Plastic monsters came to life around the world, rising up from dirty landfills, climbing over piles of trash & even swimming up and out of seas, lakes, rivers & oceans to make a very long and sometimes arduous journeys back home to their source. This plastic monsters may not be real, but this represent a very serious crisis: the plastic monster is a reality which actually portraits the world’s plastic waste.    Microplastics are very small portions of plastic that pollute the environment. Microplastics are not a selected type of plastic, but as a substitute any sort of plastic fragment that is much less than 5 mm in length. They enter natural ecosystems from an expansion of sources, such as cosmetics, apparel, and industrial procedures.   Classifications of microplastics currently exist. Primary microplastics are any plastic fragments or debris which might be already 5 mm in size or...
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Fireflies face extinction

One of summer's most enduring sights may be extinguished forever in some parts of the world. Fireflies, aka lightning bugs, are facing a triple extinction threat from habitat loss, artificial light and pesticide use. The second-most serious threat to fireflies is considered to be light pollution as many fireflies rely on bioluminescence to find & attract their mates. Artificial light at night has grown exponentially during the last century. In addition to disrupting natural biorhythms -- including our own -- light pollution really messes up firefly mating rituals. Many fireflies rely on bioluminescence to find and attract their mates, and previous work has shown that too much artificial light can interfere with these courtship exchanges.   In the early months of the pandemic, marginalized groups had been disproportionately affected and the realities of a widening inequality gap were apparent. What turned into as soon as concept to be an equalizer had turn out to be the...
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