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Today morning around 10:00 A.M, I was checking news on Cyclone Tauktae "India's first cyclone of 2021". I was left shocked as the cyclone which was bound to be a cyclone of least category got amplified over the past few days and became another "Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm", which prompted me to write about the growing concerns of such extreme weather events over Indian mainland. This is not the only time a cyclone of such category is brewing up in Indian Seas. Fani in 2019, Aamphan in 2020 were a few notable ones from the past few years  You all might have heard of cyclones thrashing Indian mainland year after year, we all have have seen visuals of flying roofs, falling trees, damaged crops, inundated fields, blocked roads, people loosing property which they created by working day and night throughout their lives. But what have been causing such devastating cyclones year after year..?? Climate scientists say with a rapidly warming Indian Ocean, these severe ...

Let's pledge to do our part in saving our Mother Earth  This Year's Theme "Restore our Earth "   Climate change and coronavirus pandemic have reminded us of the harm we've caused.  Therefore, we must Restore Our Earth not just because we care about the natural world, but because we live on it and our future generation will also live on it and wil thrive on the resources  we leave for them History Every year on April 22    founded by Senator Gaylord Nelson. First organized in 1970 to promote ecology. Raise awareness of the growing problems of air, water, and soil pollution. United Nations calls it by “International Mother Earth Day" .

  Being crowned 4th time in a row, this city of central India's Malwa region, Indore, has set up standards which every city in India will look forward to achieve. Thanks to my professor last trimester  in IIT Jodhpur, Dr. Anand Krishnan Plappally, he made us do some assignments quite regularly of which one was the case study of Indore's solid waste management.  Being a curious guy I took a lot of interest in knowing the various aspects of it. so i will let you know the story of Indore becoming the cleanest city of India Backdrop   After coming into power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi started one of his most ambitious scheme which was going to change thinking of a billion minds(hopefully) and changed the fortune of some cities, one such was Indore. Being ranked on 25th position on the list of cleanest cities, the municipal corporation and the district administration of Indore could have gone happy about things but they did exact opposite. As the rankings didn'...

The Great Indian Thirst https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/ With the onset of summers, the worrysome thing in my locality is whether our locality's well would be able to give us water for the three cruel hot months ahead...?? By the way we (the people in my locality) are not the only ones who go through the same thought process every summers. As per NITI Aayog report of 2018 stated : That nearly 600 million or nearly half of India's population, almost half of India's population faces extreme water crisis. 75% of rural households doesn't have piped, potable water . Those households rely on sources which can have serious implications on human health. 70% of our sources are contaminated. Major rivers are dying due to insane amount of pollution in them. Groundwater table is depleting at a rapid pace and India is World's largest extractor of Ground water accounting for almost 25% . All in all we are suffering from " worst water crisis " and going towards even ...

Tackling Indoor Air Pollution through Phytoremidiation (plants)🎋🌴 We usually hear a lot about pollution precisely air pollution in the months of october - december, and people in Delhi do crib a lot about this matter, why won't they crib as air pollution is a big source of many respiratory diseases to heart diseases, cancer, etc. Some stats related to the fatalities because of poor Indoor Air Quality It sounds scary when you get to know that around 4.3 million people die worldwide due to poor air quality prevailing inside the houses, a round 3.8 million premature deaths occur annually from non-communicable diseases including ischaemic heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer are all attributed to exposure to household air pollution, as per reports from WHO. So now you might have understood the severeness of the problem which don't get highlighted enough because of the more worsened AQI levels outside in some parts of the World.  What are the...

History March 22 was formally proposed in Agenda 21 of the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janerio.  In the same year, during the month of December, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution wherein it declared March 22nd as World Day for Water. This year's theme : Valuing Water The above theme helps recognize the crucial role a healthy ecosystem has to play, so that it can maintain enough water supply with no report of shortage anywhere in the world.