Cloud Seeding Vincent Schaefer an American chemist and meteorologist discovered the principle of cloud seeding in 1946. It is a type of weather modification technique that improves the ability of clouds to produce rain or snow by introducing tiny ice nuclei into certain types of subfreezing clouds. These nuclei provide Read more…
Carbon Sink Carbon sink is a natural or artificial reservoir that absorbs and stores Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Why in the news? India has committed in its NDC – to create an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent through additional forest and tree Read more…
Tiger Reserves in India Project Tiger Important facts about project tiger: Project Tiger was launched by the Government of India in the year 1973 to save the endangered species of tiger in the country. Starting from nine (9) reserves in 1973, the number is grown up to fifty-four (54). There Read more…
World Environment Day In 1972, the UN General Assembly designated 5 June as World Environment Day (WED). The first celebration, under the slogan “Only One Earth” took place in 1974. In the following years, WED has developed as a platform to raise awareness of the problems facing our environment such Read more…
BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES Introduction: The flow of energy is linear in ecosystems but its opposite nutrients go through a cyclical process. The nutrients are locked in the dead remains of organisms and come back into the soil by decomposers. The recycling of these nutrients is called the biogeochemical or nutrient cycle. Read more…