Dealing With Various Themes And Issues
Environment
Dealing With Lightning During Thunderstorm
Sep 2nd
Thousands of people around the world are fallen victims to lightning. In Brazil alone, there are 1,300 people who succumb to lightning strikes.
Global Warming May Oblige Us To Upgrade Our Infrastructures
Aug 12th
As the world is battling global warming, it is inevitable that being at the receiving end, we need to adapt as what mother nature has dictated us to do. There is a need to cope up the rising seas and the environmental higher temperatures we are now experiencing.
Is Mycorrhiza Beneficial To Successful Reforestation?
Aug 11th
There is a symbiotic relationship between fungus mycorrhiza with plants and trees. Inoculating the soil in the root zone of tree seedlings with mycorrhiza, it makes the tree seedlings grow faster, increase the seedlings height and make its stem diameter bigger.
Saving The Endangered Mangroves From Extinction
Jul 25th
Based on Philippine experience, mangrove areas are fast diminishing according to the Department of Science and Technology (DoST) and the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Resources, Research and Development (PCARRD).
It was noted that in 1918, that areas covered with mangroves were about 450,000 hectares but it has dwindled to an alarming rate of 140,000 hectares in 1991. Mangrove, locally known as bakawan offers countless benefits to man and the environment.
Depleting Fish Supply Has Become An Environmental Concern
Jul 13th
Fishing, once a matter of casting a net into the sea or hooking with rod and line is under increasing pressure as the world struggles to feed its hungry mouths.
Depleted marine stocks, environmental concern about fish farming in much of the world and ever greater demands on limited water supplies have put the squeeze on resources.
Seabed Creatures That Thrive On Petrochemicals
Jul 8th
There’s an interesting discovery by oceanographers a bizarre ecosystems luxuriant with clams, mussels and big tube worms in the deep seabed where it was once thought an underwater lifeless desert, a dark abyss deprived of sunlight.
The deep seabed creatures, dependent on microbes that thrived in hot mineral rich coming from volcanic cracks, emitting chemicals which serves as food for whole chains of life despite the absence of sunlight.
Water Plants As Bio-filters To Polluting Heavy Metals And Radioactive Materials
Jun 29th
There is an innovative way of eradicating heavy metals pollutants in the environment as developed by Israeli scientists.
A team of botanists headed by Prof. Elisha Tel-Or at the Hebrew University in Israel, have successfully utilized water plants like the frail looking but clearly healthy Azolla ferns and water lilies to absorb heavy metals without a detrimental effect to the plants themselves.
How To Handle Mercury Containing Lamp Wastes?
Jun 21st
Waste and toxic watchdog Eco Waste Coalition has renewed its all out campaign against the improper disposal of spent lamps containing mercury.
It has reiterated the urgency of putting in place a practical system for hazardous collection that will curb pollution from broken, crushed, or burned fluorescent lamps containing mercury, a toxic chemical that causes significant harm to human and ecological health.
Cattle Wastes – Can Be An Excellent Source Of Alternative Energy
Jun 18th
The common trend that has been going on is that companies build their large computing centers, referred as server farms in large urban areas or its outskirts.
As this trending has continued over the years, so with their demand of finding cheap electricity and land amenities to sprawl their business and meeting their growing needs have also become a difficulty.
How Bacteria Can Alter Our Weather System?
Jun 13th
Researchers have compiled evidence that a group of bacteria long known to live on agricultural crops may have been part of a remotely studied weather ecosystem that causes snow and rain.
Though the principle is well acclaimed but of how viral it is, remains to be expounded. Scientists who have conducted this research found these bacteria in wide range and abundance to wild and domesticated plants in many places.