Environment

Once upon a time when Taj Mahal was built the west was passing through the age of renaissance This has brought in industrial revolution while agrarian societies did not advance much and remained as so called developing countries. Agricultural products their storage, processing and distribution largely suffers from losses of technical procedures. This results in compulsive selling by farmers and hoarding by the hoarders: the main business in developing world some 100 years ago and still continues. "Money makes the Mayor go" Trade is basically purchasing the crop produce in bulk at crop…

If one utilizes from the mother earth more than required for his daily life from air , water, food, fiber, shelter, recreation, and destroys mother earth for its greed to have more and more for himself at the cost of poor and downtrodden, underprivileged, unarmed and helpless poor people one is indulging in corruption. Mother Nature produces enough for needs of human beings but not for the greed. Science has reached an end in devising faster and faster methods of "breeder reactors" , faster and faster processing of natural products, quicker and quicker harvests, and more and more consumptive…

Sahara Dust In European Skies The skies over southern England were hazy on Friday April 08 2011.  In the evening the usual colors of sunset were absent.  A muddy grey-brown haze could be seen along the horizon.  That haze was caused by dust from the Sahara. Dust from Sahara over Biscay, the English Channel and Ireland Dust cloud from Sahara off the coast of Portugal Dust from the Sahara can be lifted to high altitudes in the SAL - Saharan Air Layer.  The dust is then carried by winds to distant lands and seas.  The current dust cloud is moving up the Atlantic,…

If you read this site, it won't surprise you to see me write that some people feel like the environment is more important than their fellow man.  I am not saying they all want to kill their fellow man, though some advocate forced birth control, while others just want us to "live small" - but by that they don't mean lower your carbon footprint they mean literally make your footprint smaller by genetically forcing people to be shorter.    Maybe there's something to that.  Have you been to Holland?  Even the women are my size over there.  They have to be the tallest…

One can see its autumn season now and leaves are falling in tropical climate.  The  fallen leaves contain almost 40 percent carbon which has been absorbed from the atmosphere. Thus plants help remove the carbon from the atmosphere. However growing plants deplete soil of its nutrients. If the fallen leaves are buried in the soil 2 to 3 feet deep for next 3 to 6 months one can get best quality compost which will provide nutrients back to the soil on one hand and help in carbon sequestration . Simple techniques could help environment  in environment protection.

DUBAI, UAE, April 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- As GCC countries approach their stiflingly hot summer months, the matter of cooling people, places and businesses will be at the forefront of everybody's mind. New technologies to keep cool come and go, but one in particular has become increasingly popular within mixed-use developments within this region. District cooling requires a network of water, pipes, cooling plants and innovative technology to pump air conditioning into buildings, developments and even metro networks. The question usually asked is why choose district cooling over your usual…

Labeling things with their carbon footprint is an idea that I didn't realise was new; in fact I thought it had been done already at Tesco's. Anyway, my ignorance aside, Vandenbergh et al have recommended them, writing in Nature Climate Change that "A major barrier to improved energy efficiency in households seems to be a lack of understanding of the impacts of various actions and products," "Providing information would lower this barrier, allowing consumers to make more informed choices without substantial effort.""The value of the label comes not from providing perfect information, but…

Scientists are buisy writing for magazines with impact factor and H factor value who cares for river Yamuna? This was news item that drains will stop flowing in Yamuna in Delhi area in next 4 years time. A promise of politicians. They are planning another barrage on Yamuna. If local problems assume global proportions there has to be special meetings at global level or UN level that help mitigate pollution of rivers as rivers are global as is the environment. Its need to have some kind of regulation system or advisory scientific bodies with powers to suggest and evaluate projects and their…

Arctic Ice March 2011 Update #2 The melt season of 2010 ended with a low extent and with little ice older than two years. There are strong indications that the winter of 2010 - 2011 did not compact and thicken the sea ice as much as would normally be expected. Arctic sea ice extent averaged over December 2010 was 12.00 million square kilometers (4.63 million square miles). This is the lowest December ice extent recorded in satellite observations from 1979 to 2010, 270,000 square kilometers (104,000 square miles) below the previous record low of 12.27 million square kilometers (4.74 million…

When I was student at University of Rajasthan and lived in Gokhle hostel room number 6 in 1965 there was strong debate on nuclear reactors, nuclear energy, nuclear power, nuclear non proliferation treaty , horizontal and vertical spread of nuclear power and I still remember one Mr Kaushik who was doing Ph.D. (and lived in room number 8 ) took long time to explain pros and cons of nuclear power. Nuclear non proliferation horizontal and vertical . One looks only at good points of nuclear power and imagines all is going to be well for all times to come. One can not visualize the dangers of…