Environment

Energy crisis

2009-12-10T17:06:00.001-08:00

Energy crisis is a degradation of the energy which is for a certain time and a place like petroleum products. It is the less supply of the energy comparison to the demand of the human beings. Energy crisis is the main problem of our whole world. Petroleum products price is going higher and higher because of the energy crisis. In order to decrease energy crisis we should use the renewable sources of energy. We should all think about this for out up coming future.

Control of Automobile emission

2009-12-09T01:32:00.000-08:00

Control of emission of automobiles helps to control the most of the pollution that is been causing by the automobiles. It Helps to control the air pollution, and many more other pollution that is been done knowing to unknowing by us. so this Control measure should be followed in order to make or environment, earth and our surrounding nit and clean.

Air pollution in Home

2009-11-22T01:27:00.000-08:00

It is the invisible and silent health concern to many people that they live unaware of this type of pollution . There are various type of air pollutants in houses that causes serious health effects on human , and most of them are not covered under house insurance policy.

Radon is very toxic gas which can be trapped into the home and cannot be released over for a long periods of time directly into the living things . Children are the first to suffer from respiratory disease when radon is inside the home. So the home should be checked from time to time.

Bio degradation

2009-11-15T21:56:00.000-08:00

Bio degradations the process of decay or breakdown of materials that occurs when the small small microorganisms use an organic substances as a source of carbon and other energy. For example, sewage flows to the waste water where many of the organic compounds are broken down . These bio degradation processes are essential to recycle wastes so that the elements in them can be used again.Those materials, which are hard to break down, may enter the environment as contaminants.

Bio degradation is a microbial process which occurs when all of the nutrients and physical conditions are suitable for their growth. Temperature is a very important variable; keeping a substance frozen can prevent bio degradation.

Pollution around Cities Increases Risk of Cancer

2009-11-15T21:39:00.000-08:00

Day by Day increment of the different types of pollution is increasing different types of diseases are seen in the human beings. According to latest results from Environmental Protection Agency. People who are living around the large city areas face an increasing risk of developing cancer.

The report National Scale Air Toxic Assessment is based on the air pollution data form the air 2002. It is meant to help the state, government identified areas and different pollutants so that they may understand the risks the may face.The report concluded the 25% of all air toxin cancer risks are from industry, 30% are from the mobile pollution, and 45% are from the background toxic with unknown sources.

Nitrogen oxide

2009-11-11T07:25:00.000-08:00

Nitrogen Oxide is the combination of Nitrogen and Oxygen gas. It is produced during the lightening and thunder.These are of different types. These are also used as fuel. Nitrogen oxide reacts with moisture, ammonia and other similar compounds to form nitric acid or its vapor. when this small particles penetrate they damages the lungs tissue and causes the untimely death. Inhalation of the gas may causes some respiratory diseases.

Put energy into emission control projects

2009-11-07T19:57:00.000-08:00

We should have to put the energy into the emission control project Because the energy crisis is increasing day by day. Many of the companies does not think about the impact of the pollution in the environment after establishing industry in that particular areas they feel pressured to spend their least amount possible to meet environmental rules and regualtion because complain is not the way of getting profit. What some environmental managers fails to realize that emission control equipment can become a profit decreasing impact .

How To Conserve Energy?

2009-10-02T19:54:00.000-07:00

In order to conserve the energy there ans different ways and methods of conserving energy including the ways or using the natural resources and its components.

Using energy resources doesn't necessarily mean that we can conserve any type of energy. So to conserve the energy we should have to advice every household to research the possibility of implementing, natural resources energy to influence int their home. This will help to conserve the fossils fuels that we are currently consuming day by day.

Many small-small things can be done to conserve energy in our home. But many of the people don't know these small-small energy conservation process.

Small things also can make a big difference in conserving energy around the home, and our surrounding this point is especially focused for dishwashers, washing machines and dryers.

Colors Disco In Human Brain

2009-10-02T19:37:00.000-07:00

Color is the visual perception property to human that may be red, white, yellow etc. It derives the spectrum of light. like the same way the color plays the disco in the human brain. when eye sees the color then there plays the different kind of sense in the human brain. like white resembles the bright places and the black resembles the dark.

Environmental engineering

2009-10-02T19:31:00.001-07:00

Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to improve the environment (air, water, and/or land resources), to provide healthful water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate polluted sites.

When Recycling Is Bad for the Environment

2009-09-20T23:54:00.000-07:00

Glass, metal, and paper are pretty straightforward, but when it comes to plastic, things get tricky. The truth is that what you can recycle depends on where you live and what materials your city’s facilities can handle. There are many different types of plastic, and they cannot all be recycled together. So unless you’re diligent about sorting all your plastics, then “recycling” that yogurt container may be doing more harm than simply throwing it away.

Recycling is generally far better than sending waste to landfills and relying on new raw materials to drive the consumer economy.

The Easiest Way to Fight Global Warming?

2009-09-20T23:50:00.000-07:00

Discussions of climate change often make it sound as if carbon dioxide is the only villain. But climatologists have identified another, less notorious form of carbon that may be nearly as dangerous: soot. The fine, black, powdery pollutant may be responsible for the very different warming trends observed between the Northern and Southern hemispheres. If discovering yet another agent of global warming gets you down, take heart. This one may be a relatively easy target for action that will slow the progress of climate change.

Soot, which climatologists call black carbon, emanates from diesel engines, power plants, the clearing of forests or burning of fields, and open cookstoves common in developing countries. While drifting in the atmosphere or after settling on the ground, soot efficiently absorbs sunlight, warms up, and radiates heat.

Emission control technologies for carbon fiber processing

2009-09-19T19:13:00.000-07:00

Carbon fiber and graphite reinforced polymers are materials that have, and will continue to revolutionize the products we use everyday by making them stronger, lighter and more durable. However, the manufacturing process can have serious environmental ramifications and immediate danger to human health if careful consideration is not given to emission control at the production phase of these materials.

A carbon fiber company in the Peoples Republic of China was faced with this challenge while designing a new facility and process line for their specialty fiber products. Company officials knew they would need a pollution control device that not only met the local regulations but also protected their employees and heavily populated neighborhood. The new line would include a furnace and oven with the potential to discharge significant levels of Carbon Monoxide (CO), Amonia (NH3) and lethal amounts of Hydrogen Cyanide (HCN).

Dust monitoring

2009-09-19T19:08:00.000-07:00

Generally, two different approaches are used to measure the amount of dust deposited on a surface; Determination of the soiling of a surface, by a change in its properties; Determination of the quantity of dust deposited, by weight. WHAT IS DUST? Dust is a generic term used to describe fine particles that are suspended in the atmosphere. Dust comes from a wide variety of sources, including soil, vegetation (pollens and fungi), sea salt, fossil fuel combustion, burning of biomass, and industrial activities. It is formed when fine particles are taken up into the atmosphere (entrained) by the action of wind or other physical disturbances or through the release of particulate-rich gaseous emissions (primary particles). In addition, gases such as sulfur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen may react in the atmosphere over time to form fine particles, such as ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate (secondary particles).

Dust is typically classified according to its particle size, as follows:

Deposited matter refers to any dust that falls out of suspension in the atmosphere.
Total suspended particles (TSP) typically refers to particles 50μm (micrometers) (0.05mm diameter) in size or less.
PM10 refers to particles 10μm (0.01mm) in size or less.
PM2.5 refers to particles 2.5μm (0.0025mm) in size or less.

Is Paper Better Than Plastic?

2009-09-19T19:04:00.000-07:00

Paper bags, which many people consider a better alternative to plastic bags, carry their own set of environmental problems. For example, according to the American Forest and Paper Association, in 1999 the U.S. alone used 10 billion paper grocery bags, which adds up to a lot of trees.

EarthTalk Bio

2009-09-19T19:00:00.000-07:00

EarthTalk, an environmental question-and-answer column, is a regular feature of E/The Environmental Magazine. EarthTalk answers reader-submitted questions on a wide range of environmental topics, from global warming to buying organic. Nearly 400 outlets currently carry EarthTalk, which has a total weekly readership approaching 4 million.

EarthTalk is provided free each week to newspapers, news services, environmental organizations and green-friendly companies. Selected EarthTalk columns are reprinted on About.com Environmental Issues by permission of the magazine’s editors.

Cell Phone Recycling: How to Recycle Your Old Cell Phone

2009-09-19T17:48:00.000-07:00

What happens to your old cell phone after you upgrade to a new model? Do stores really recycle old cell phones, or refurbish them and give them to the poor, or do they just end up in landfills? Learn how you can ensure your old cell phone is recycled and put to good use instead of damaging the environment.

Is Clean Coal Really Clean?

2009-09-19T17:46:00.000-07:00

Clean coal supporters claim clean coal and liquid coal can help to free the United States of its dependence on foreign oil without damaging the environment, but critics say "clean coal" is dirtier than oil-based alternatives. Get the dirt on clean coal.

Benefits of Glass recycling

2009-09-19T17:41:00.000-07:00

Glass recycling is both simple and beneficial. Glass recycling is good for environment.A glass bottle that is sent to a landfill can take up to a million years to break down. By contrast, it takes as little as 30 days for a recycled glass bottle to leave your kitchen recycling bin and appear on a store shelf as a new glass container.

Water on the Moon?

2009-09-19T17:32:00.000-07:00

About to years ago Faith Vilas, director of the Multiple Mirror Telescope in Arizona, developed a sideline obsession with the Moon. Perusing archived data from the Galileo mission to Jupiter, she saw something different in the pictures taken of the Moon. When she started to study that picture for certain infrared wavelengths, a telling signal popped out at a few spots near the Moon's south pole. The signal, at least in asteroids, is associated with phyllosilicates, which are minerals that need two things to form: heat and water. Was this a clue pointing to all the water ice that many think hides within the Moon's polar craters?

Beijing bamboozled by no-car-day numbers game

2009-09-05T20:14:00.001-07:00

Beijing car owners, many apparently puzzled by no-driving days designated by the last digit of their license numbers, now face revised rules which threaten even greater confusion.

The no-car days, introduced on Oct 11 to reduce gridlock and pollution, have apparently left so many drivers scratching their heads that one Beijing newspaper runs front-page notices each day to remind drivers which weekday they aren't allowed to drive.

Selfish use of rivers seen threatening political stability

2009-09-05T20:12:00.000-07:00

Countries that selfishly use shared rivers threaten political stability at a time when water is scarce and demand is growing, a conservation group warned on Wednesday.

Disputes over shared rivers such as the Tigris and the Euphrates could be resolved if nations put borders aside and viewed the entire river basin as a unit instead, they added.

In the past some states have built dams or siphoned water from rivers for irrigation without consulting neighbors downstream -- stirring political tension.

Watermelon Juice May Be Next "Green" Fuel

2009-09-01T00:10:00.000-07:00

According to a new U.S. government study, juice from unwanted watermelons could be a promising new source for making the biofuel ethanol.

Up to a fifth of all watermelons grown each year have odd shapes or scarred rinds that turn off consumers, said study co-author Wayne Fish, a chemist with the Agricultural Research Service in Lane, Oklahoma.
Instead of picking the fruit, farmers leave these reject melons on the vine.
"If you figure a field of watermelon may yield somewhere between 60 and 100 tons per acre of watermelon, a fifth of that can be substantial," Fish said.
When he and colleagues were experimenting with extracting antioxidant compounds from watermelon juice, they realized the waste stream of sugary fluids could be a source of ethanol.

Environment

2009-08-30T21:07:00.000-07:00

Environment is the event that have been performing in the surrounding. Environment is not same in all of the places. Environment is the surrounding. Environment differs with how is the surrounding it is. like that may be the noiseful environment, peace ful environment, poluted environment. Now a days environment is changing with the change in generation. Environment drags the human and the animal from place to place. Like the human likes to live in the peace ful evironment. It depends 0n the what kind of man is he or she is . And the animals and birds like to live in the environment which is in jungle. Wel there is also some of the coarse regarding the environment. Environment is one of the major subject in all over the world. which is taught in all of the grades. You can graduate in environment as wel. This is made as a major subject in order to develop the awareness in the people. So that the people can move to the good envronment without harming any other components.

Planned way of use of Non-renewable Resource

2009-08-26T22:28:00.000-07:00

Planned way of use of Non-renewable Resource:
The problem of a future shortage of some of our important resources must be faced. The answer to the problem will be a combination of four approaches.
(a) Replying more heavily on renewable resources: If a non-renewable resource becomes scarce, its price goes up. This can result in alternative renewable resource becoming cheaper than the non- renewable resource, so the renewable resource will be used instead.
(b)Increasing product lifetime: We must try to make products made from non-renewable resources last longer. For example, most cars are made of steel, which contain large amount of iron. The iron rusts. If every car could be made to last longer, then less iron would be needed by the motor industry.
(c)Recycling: Much of what we throw away could be reused. Glass, for example, can be crushed, remelted and reused. Glass made in this way requires much less energy than glass made from starch. Many people already take their empty glass bottles to bottle banks. If more and more people were encouraged to do this, the amount of resources need to make new glass could be greatly reduced.
(d)Opening up new resources: Improved technology is continually allowing resources which were previously unavailable to be extracted from the Earth.