Wake up! Save the World: January 2016

Friday, 29 January 2016

Reality Video Shoot-Do Moneys in love with Banana??

Sunday, 24 January 2016

Heal theWorld

"Justice from Love, and Love from Justice"
Heal the entire World with Love

Thursday, 21 January 2016

Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Importance of Trees!!

Trees play a very important role in our surroundings. Trees provide us with fresh air to breathe, shade in summers, food, and other benefits without which we cannot even think of living. As pollution and cutting of trees increases day by day, the ecological balance should be maintained. We should plant more and more trees in order to provide a healthy life to our children and the generations to come.

Monday, 18 January 2016

Climate change is a hoax?

 “The climate challenge illustrates how we have to change. The developing countries need more support and opportunities to develop and use clean energy. Because if the current situation continues, then the world will not be able to handle this burden."

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Acid rain is a product of the burning of fossil fuels and poses a threat to the ecosystems of streams and lakes.
One of the direct effects of acid rain is on lakes and its aquatic ecosystems.
There are several routes through which acidic chemicals can enter the lakes. Some chemical substances exist as dry particles in the air while others enter the lakes as wet particles such as rain, snow, sleet, hail, dew or fog. In addition, lakes can almost be thought of as the "sinks" of the earth, where rain that falls on land is drained through the sewage systems eventually make their way into the lakes. Acid rain that falls onto the earth washes off the nutrients out of the soil and carries toxic metals that have been released from the soil into the lakes. Another harmful way in which acids can enter the lakes is spring acid shock. When snow melts in spring rapidly due to a sudden temperature change, the acids and chemicals in the snow are released into the soils. The melted snow then runs off to streams and rivers, and gradually make their way into the lakes. The introduction of these acids and chemicals into the lakes causes a sudden drastic change in the pH of the lakes - hence the term "spring acid shock". The aquatic ecosystem has no time to adjust to the sudden change. In addition, springtime is an especially vulnerable time for many aquatic species since this is the time for reproduction for amphibians, fish and insects. Many of these species lay their eggs in the water to hatch. The sudden pH change is dangerous because the acids can cause serious deformities in their young or even annihilate the whole species since the young of many of such species spend a significant part of their life cycle in the water.
Sulphuric acid (H₂SO₄) in water can affect the fish in the lakes directly interferes with the fish's ability to take in oxygen, salt and nutrients needed to stay alive.

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Friday, 15 January 2016

E-waste

Electronic waste or e-waste is any broken or unwanted electrical or electronic appliance. • E-waste includes computers, entertainment electronics, mobile phones and other items that have been discarded by their original users.

E-waste is the most rapidly growing waste problem in the world.

--> • It is a crisis of not quantity alone but also a crisis born from toxics ingredients, posing a threat to the occupational health as well as the environment.

--> • Rapid technology change, changes in media (tapes, software, MP3), falling prices, low initial cost, high obsolescence rate have resulted in a fast growing problem around the globe.

• An estimated 50 million tons of E-waste are produced each year.

• The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that only 15-20% of ewaste is recycled, the rest of these electronics go directly into landfills and incinerators

• the amount of e-waste being produced - including mobile phones and computers - could rise by as much as 500 percent over the next decade in some countries, such as India.

• The United States is the world leader in producing electronic waste, tossing away about 3 million tons each year.

• China already produces about 2.3 million tons (2010 estimate) domestically, second only to the United States. And, despite having banned e-waste imports, China remains a major e-waste dumping ground for developed The USA discards 30 million computers each year and 100 million phones are disposed of in Europe each year.

VOLUME REDUCTION:-
• Volume reduction includes those techniques that remove the hazardous portion of a waste from a non-hazardous portion.
• These techniques are usually to reduce the volume, and thus the cost of disposing of a waste material.
• For example, an electronic component manufacturer can use compaction equipment to reduce volume of waste cathode ray-tube.
RECOVERY AND REUSE:-
• This technique could eliminate waste disposal costs, reduce raw material costs and provide income from a salable waste.
• Waste can be recovered on-site, or at an off-site recovery facility, or through inter industry exchange.
• For example, a printed-circuit board manufacturer can use electrolytic recovery to reclaim metals from copper and tin-lead plating bath.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CITIZEN:-
• Recycling raw materials from end-of-life electronics is the most effective solution to the growing e-waste problem.
• E-wastes should never be disposed with garbage and other household wastes. This should be segregated at the site and sold or donated to various organizations.
• Reuse, in addition to being an environmentally preferable alternative, also benefits society. By donating used electronics, schools, non-profit organizations, and lower income families can afford to use equipment that they otherwise could not afford.
• Gather any unwanted chargers, accessories or batteries to recycle –find national recycling center of the company

REFERENCES:- • Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc, Bangalore http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in) • United Nations Environment Programme - http://www.unep.org • http:// wikipedia.org • http://www.greenpeace.org/ • http://www.dosomething.org/
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Wednesday, 13 January 2016

:( 45 whales die in TN, experts hint at underwater disturbances :( Wake up!Save the World

Fishermen try to drag a whale that washed ashore in Manapad in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin district. (AFP)

Despite rescue efforts, over 30 short-finned pilot whales died after over 120 have washed ashore on Tamil Nadu coast near Tuticorin.

At least 45 whales died after they washed ashore overnight on a beach in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin district, officials said on Tuesday, with experts attributing the deaths to a possible underwater disturbance like an earthquake or volcano.

“It appears the whales are in shock. It mainly happened due to unusual activity deep inside the sea,” said a scientist with the Chennai-based Central Marine Fisheries Institute. A team of experts have also rushed to the village for an on-the-spot assessment of the cause.

Pilot whales – known to be among some of the most social aquatic mammals -- are so named because they are led or ‘piloted’ by a leader in their search for food or breeding grounds.

A forest department official who had visited the beach said there were injury marks on the dead whales which indicated “high intensity” underwater activity.

“This may have happened hundreds of kilometres away and the whales may have been washed to the coast because of the tide,” said the official who did not give his name.

Rescue workers and fishermen worked through the day to pull the whales -- each weighing between 1 tonne to 1.5 tonne and measuring between 8 feet and 10 feet -- back into the sea.