ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES |Types of pollution|Eutrophication |Waste management |Green house effects |ozone|Deforestation|chipko movement|joint forest management
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES 1.Growing human population –> Exerting tremendous pressure on natural resources, pollution of air, water and soil. 2. POLLUTION is any undesirable change in physical, chemical or biological characteristics of air, land, water or soil. 3. Agents that bring about such an undesirable change are called as POLLUTANTS. 4. Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 to control environmental […]
BIODIVERSITY
BIODIVERSITY Sum total of diversity that exists at all levels of biological organisation. o Levels of biodiversity –> Genetic, Species and Ecosystem levels 2. GENETIC DIVERSITY: o A single species might show high diversity at the genetic level over its distributional range. o India has more than 50,000 genetically different strains of rice, and 1,000 […]