The Environment News

There is no doubt in the fact that Diwali is the biggest festival in India and with a population of about 1.3 billion, it is one of the biggest festivals of the world too. Truly the homecoming of Lord Rama is marked by the homecoming of happiness, prosperity, love, faith and obviously the ever despised gas chamber like conditions.  Post Diwali 2016, we witnessed what wikipedia calls " The Great Delhi Smog ". The Indian Capital was breaking records with its severe pollution levels, choking the citizens, infants and the animals. In 2016 November, the national capital took shape of a gas chamber with particulate matter PM10 and PM2.5 soaring to over eight times the safe limit. Cool breezy November mornings turned to hazy, gloomy and smoggy ones. PM10 levels were recorded at severe level of 831.6 and PM2.5 at 624.2. The World Health Organisation recommends that the PM2.5 is kept below 10 as an annual average. Exposure to average annual concentrations above 35 is associated wit

Oh the dinosaurs aren't there anymore! Come on, everyone knows that. Maybe that is enough to show that a whole species can get erased off the face of our wild planet. The biodiversity is endangered and we humans are largely responsible for it. It is time to realise that all the species have an equal right to this planet in this largely democratic world. And we must not take this right from them because when the nature punishes, it can demolish anything in sight. I hope you guys remember the tiny brown sparrows springing all around the town, chirping sweetly, making our mornings prettier. Weren't they visible everywhere, in the parks, the balconies, gardens and what not. Where are they now ? The Passer Domesticus, commonly known as the house sparrow was included in the  IUCN Red List of Threatened Species  in 2002 following the sudden disappearance of these chirpy little creatures. We humans have shared our habitat with the house sparrows for thousands of years. Foun