INTRODUCTION SOIL SAMPLING It is defined as the process of taking soil in a certain portion to perform testing. Soil sampling is performed to test or analyze soil quality that includes a wide range of soil areas. There are many reasons for performing soil analysis. Soil sampling is conducted to determine the soil health, availability […]
Sustainable Agriculture Practices and their Advantages
INTRODUCTION Sustainable Agriculture: It is defined as sustainable farming or agricultural practices in sustainable ways. It includes sustainable agriculture practices that meet the food and textile demands of the current society without compromising the capability of the upcoming generation to meet their demands in the future. Sustainable agriculture is based on the services of the […]
10 Easy and Practical Ways to Help Save the Environment
Environment is everything that surrounds us and everything that surrounds us is unfortunately very polluted nowadays, thanks to us humans and our activities. However, not all of us want to contribute the insane amounts of pollution into our surroundings and some of us want to become environmentally conscious and responsible citizens of this world as […]
15 Easy and Practical Ways to Reduce Food Waste
According to UNEP around 33% of the food produced annually is wasted or lost, which makes up around a mind-boggling 1.3 BILLION tons of food! That is more than enough to solve the issue of world hunger but unfortunately that amount of food is lost or wasted. It’s too bizarre a concept that a world […]
Human Population Growth – Causes and Effects
INTRODUCTION Population: It is defined as a number of the entire living beings of the same species and group who live in a certain location anywhere around the Earth and have the capability to interbreed. Population Growth: It is defined as the rise in the number of people/individuals in a population. Every year there is […]
How Can We Make Our Cities Sustainable (An Eco-City)?
INTRODUCTION Sustainability: In today’s era, it is defined as the capability of human civilization and Earth’s biosphere to occur together. It is also described as the capability of fulfilling the demands of the current time without constraining the capability of the upcoming generation to meet their demand in the future. Three Pillars of Sustainability: Sustainability […]
Urbanization – Causes, Effects, and Solutions
INTRODUCTION Urbanization: It is defined as urban sprawl due to the increasing population. It is also described as turning a land space into a metropolitan area. Urbanization refers to the increasing population in urban areas as more people are shifting to urban societies. It could be elaborated as small areas having a large number of […]
Renewable Alternative Energy Resources – Advantages and Disadvantages
INTRODUCTION Renewable Sources: These are naturally occurring resources that get replenished over time. Examples are geothermal heat, tides, precipitation, wind, sunlight, waves, etc. The energy that is produced from renewable natural resources is called renewable energy. It also involves energy that is produced from a renewable resource such as biomass. Non-Renewable Sources: These are natural […]
Conservation of Biodiversity – Importance and Methods
INTRODUCTION Biodiversity Conservation: It is defined as a particular way of protecting and managing biodiversity so as to get resources as a means to sustainable development. Read: Biodiversity Loss – Causes, Effects, and Solutions Objectives of Biodiversity Conservation: Conservation of biodiversity has three key objectives that are listed below. Its first objective is to protect […]
Biodiversity Loss – Causes, Effects, and Solutions
INTRODUCTION Biodiversity Loss: It is defined as a significant reduction in biodiversity that is present all around the world. It also includes complete disappearance/loss of biodiversity leading to extinction. The biodiversity loss can be further elaborated as a reduction in the variety of living beings that colonize various ecosystems on the Earth, their genetic variations, […]