Showing posts with label Save the earth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Save the earth. Show all posts

Friday, March 12, 2010

হংকং এর আকাশে উড়তে পারছে না পরিয়ায়ী পাখিরা

Reports in http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5346608,00.html?maca=ben-standard_feed-ben-615-xml

 

হংকং এর আকাশ ফুঁড়ে উঠছে সুউচ্চ সব ভবন৷ এতই উচু হচ্ছে ভবনগুলো যে এর উপর দিয়ে পাখিরা উড়ে যেতে পারছে না৷ সমুদ্রের বুকে মাটি ভরাট করে উদ্ধার করা হচ্ছে নতুন নতুন এলাকা৷ সেখানে গড়ে উঠছে শহর৷ সমস্যা বেঁধেছে এই উন্নয়ন নিয়েই৷

 

কয়েকদিন আগে পাখি বিষয়ক এক খবরে বলা হলো দাগি লেজ জৌরালি বা বার ‘টেইলড গডউইট' নামের একটি জলচর পাখি আকাশে বিরতিহীনভাবে সাত হাজার ২০০ মাইল পাড়ি দিয়েছে৷ শীতকালে অতিথি পাখির হাজার হাজার মাইল পথ পাড়ি দেওয়া কোনো নতুন ঘটনা নয়৷ কিন্তু টানা আট দিনের বেশি স্থায়ী ভ্রমণ এবং এ ভ্রমণে সাত হাজার ২০০ মাইল পাড়ি এই প্রথম পর্যবেক্ষণ করেছেন বিজ্ঞানীরা৷ এ পাখিটি সুদূর আলাস্কা থেকে প্রশান্ত মহাসাগর পার হয়ে নিউজিল্যান্ডে পৌঁছায়৷ এ সময় পাখিটি কোনো বিশ্রাম নেয়নি, খাবারও গ্রহণ করেনি৷ বিজ্ঞানীরা পাখিটির গতিবিধি রেকর্ড করে বলেছেন, প্রাণিজগতে এমন ঘটনা অভূতপূর্ব৷ এটি একটি উদাহরণ মাত্র৷

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Landfills : Garbage filled in the lans can pollute the air worse than carbon dioxide

Landfills have a tendency to emit a host of toxic gases into the air, and by toxic gases we actually mean cytotoxic or carcinogenic gases, like benzene and vinyl chloride. They also leak into the surrounding soils and water sources.

Furthermore, landfills produce methane -- rather, microbes produce it as they devour anything they can and emit methane as a waste product. Being lighter than air, methane works its way out of the air and into the soils or the atmosphere. Methane has a very high global warming potential (GWP), about 12 times as high as carbon dioxide.

Garbage can stay long ...............

I got in the net while surfing about saving our green planet that The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates -

  • glass bottles require a million years to fully break down in a landfill
  • plastic foam cups require over 500 years
  • aluminum cans between 200 and 500 years
  • plastic bags as many as 20 years, and
  • cigarette butts as many as five years.


Thursday, March 12, 2009

Monday, January 26, 2009

What are some of the major factors contributing to the water crisis?

Unchecked and Unplanned dam building and excessive irrigation are among the main reasons. On average, agriculture uses up to 70% of all water diverted from river basins.

Dams have already fragmented 60% of major rivers worldwide and displaced up to 80 million people.

Hundreds of dams are under construction worldwide and even more are being planned.

Where is the water crisis the most serious?

Most developing countries face serious water problems.

In Africa, almost half of the population suffers from one of the six major water-related diseases, such as diarrhoea, which kills millions of children worldwide millions every year.

But many developed nations such as Spain and Australia are also having water problems due to pollution, over-use or mismanagement.

How bad is the global water crisis?

  • 1.1 billion people lack access to water and 2.6 billion lack adequate sanitation; most of these populations are in developing countries
  • Over 50% of the world’s wetlands have been lost in the last century alone
  • Most of the world’s largest rivers are losing their connection to the sea and nearly a quarter of those left risk being disconnected in the next 15 years
  • Only one-third of the world’s 177 large rivers (1,000km and longer) remain free-flowing, unimpeded by dams or other barriers
  • There has bee more than a 50% decline in freshwater species populations over the last 30 years, making species loss in freshwater ecosystems faster than any other biome

Green economy will help fight climate change

Green economy will help fight climate change
“The McKinsey study shows once and for all that taking action on climate change is both urgent and affordable”, said WWF Director James Leape.

Brussels - New figures released today show that moving to a “green” global economy could not only protect the planet from the worst effects of climate change but is surprisingly affordable.

Pathways to a Low Carbon Economy- a new study by McKinsey and Co – shows that global warming can be kept below the critical 2°C rise and that it is well within our means to do so.

For more details Please

Green economy will help fight climate change..

A Tsunami : A Monster Wave

A tsunami is a monster wave, started by a magnitude-9 earthquake. It overwhelmed long stretches of coastline along the Ocean shore.

Tsunamis are like. . .We're sitting in our seaside house and we notice that the surf sounds different. We look out and see that the water has receded, as if the tide had pulled out in a hurry. The sea stays low for several minutes.

The sea rises, as quickly and quietly as it left—then it keeps on rising, higher than we've ever seen it go. The sea grows louder and outruns you, catches your ankles, knocks you down, and smashes you against trees and rocks and buildings as you drown in its muddy, turbulent flow.

The Web has a lot of sites with tsunami information. I've got a tsunami list with the best of them. But I think the Pacific Tsunami Museum in Hilo, Hawaii, is special because it has a human face and a human basis.

Besides, scientists have their own blinders. Many think of tsunamis as caused strictly by earthquakes, or underwater volcanic eruptions or seafloor landslides. They even call them "seismic sea waves." But in fact the most significant kind of tsunamis, for the geologist, are created not by quakes or any earthly process but by cosmic impacts.

Earthquake Region in South Asia



The Himalayan nations of Nepal and Bhutan contain densely populated cities as well as the world's highest mountains.

Low-lying Bangladesh is at greater risk of flooding, lying as it does in the great Ganges-Brahmaputra delta, but its northern and eastern districts are also highly quake-prone.

Green Roofs : More Green on Your Roof

In most of architecture design, almost buildings are designed to shed rain, and as such are built with hard, impenetrable roofing surfaces.

As a result, rainwater bounces off and collects as runoff, picking up impurities—including infectious bacteria from animal waste as well as harmful pesticides and fertilizers—on the way to municipal storm sewers, which in turn eventually empty into local bodies of water.

But we can make this runoff more effective for our environment.

Minimizing this runoff means that more impurities will remain in local soils where they can be broken down more easily into their constituent elements than if they are concentrated downstream.

To achieve this goal, landscape architects have developed so-called “green roofs,” which use living plant matter and soil on top of a building to absorb, collect and reuse rainwater while preventing runoff. Many buildings employing green roofs are able to find abundant uses for the water they collect, from watering exterior plants at ground level to flushing toilets inside.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Top 10 Worst Polluted Places

The Top 10 Worst Polluted Places


The Top 10 worst polluted places were chosen by the Blacksmith Institute’s Technical Advisory Board from a list of 35 polluted places that had been narrowed from 300 polluted places identified by the Institute or nominated by people worldwide. The Technical Advisory Board includes experts from Johns Hopkins, Hunter College, Harvard University, IIT India, the University of Idaho, Mount Sinai Hospital, and leaders of major international environmental remediation companies.


The Top 10 worst polluted places in the world are:

  1. Chernobyl, Ukraine
  2. Dzerzhinsk, Russia
  3. Haina, Dominican Republic
  4. Kabwe, Zambia
  5. La Oroya, Peru
  6. Linfen, China
  7. Maiuu Suu, Kyrgyzstan
  8. Norilsk, Russia
  9. Ranipet, India
  10. Rudnaya Pristan/Dalnegorsk, Russia


Renewablae Energy : We need it badly

Renewable energy resources are kind of those energy which are not destructing itself for producing energy for us, such as wind, solar and hydropower. This kind of energy offer clean alternatives to fossil fuels. They produce little or no pollution or greenhouse gases, and they will never run out.


Solar Energy

The best energy resources we have in this planet is The sun. Sunlight, or solar energy, can be used for heating, lighting and cooling homes and other buildings, generating electricity, water heating, and a variety of industrial processes.

Moreover, Most forms of renewable energy come either directly or indirectly from the sun. For example, heat from the sun causes the wind to blow, contributes to the growth of trees and other plants that are used for biomass energy, and plays an essential role in the cycle of evaporation and precipitation that makes hydropower possible.

So We can call The Solar Energy Resource as "Premio resource of Recyclable Energy".


Wind Energy

After Solar power, we can assume Wind is secondary resources as recyclable energy generating factor. Wind is the movement of air that occurs when warm air rises and cooler air rushes in to replace it. The energy of the wind has been used for centuries to sail ships and drive windmills that grind grain.

At present, researchers are expressing their own view for wind energy which is captured by wind turbines and used to generate electricity.


Hydropower

This is also secondary resources of recyclable energy. Where Water flowing downstream powerfully there it is a powerful force.

As we know, Water is a renewable resource, constantly recharged by the global cycle of evaporation and precipitation. The heat of the sun causes water in lakes and oceans to evaporate and form clouds. The water then falls back to Earth as rain or snow, and drains into rivers and streams that flow back to the ocean. Flowing water can be used to power water wheels that drive mechanical processes. And captured by turbines and generators, like those housed at many dams around the world, the energy of flowing water can be used to generate electricity.


Biomass Energy

Now a days, Biomass has been an important source of energy.

With wood , people are promoting the most common source of biomass energy, but other sources of biomass energy include food crops, grasses and other plants, agricultural and forestry waste and residue, organic components from municipal and industrial wastes, even methane gas harvested from community landfills.

Biomass can be used to produce electricity and as fuel for transportation, or to manufacture products that would otherwise require the use of non-renewable fossil fuels.


Hydrogen

Primarily, we can say this is next-generation technology as recyclable energy resource. Hydrogen has tremendous potential as a fuel and energy source, but the technology needed to realize that potential is still in the early stages.

Hydrogen is the most common element on Earth—for example, water is two-thirds hydrogen—but in nature it is always found in combination with other elements. Once separated from other elements, hydrogen can be used to power vehicles, replace natural gas for heating and cooking, and to generate electricity.


Geothermal Energy

The heat inside the Earth produces steam and hot water that can be used to power generators and produce electricity, or for other applications such as home heating and power generation for industry.

Geothermal energy can be drawn from deep underground reservoirs by drilling, or from other geothermal reservoirs closer to the surface.


Ocean Energy

The ocean, the big ocean. As we know we are surroundings by these oceans and it has provides several forms of renewable energy, and each one is driven by different forces.

Energy from ocean waves and tides can be harnessed to generate electricity, and ocean thermal energy—from the heat stored in sea water—can also be converted to electricity. Using current technologies, most ocean energy is not cost-effective compared to other renewable energy sources, but the ocean remains and important potential energy source for the future.

All above, with some home and with some desire to make our planet alive.

Monday, December 22, 2008

Environment Tips

10 Little Things you can do for the Environment

1. Use a glass when brushing your teeth. Every year, billions of liters of fresh water is wasted by simply not using a glass when brushing your teeth.
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2. Don’t use straws. They say the straw is the most stupid invention. They are unnecessary and only add to our waste problem.
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3. Say NO to plastics when shopping. Bring your own reusable bags when doing your grocery, or when buying single items like books or cd’s, a plastic bag, or even a paper bag is unnecessary.
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4. Turn off the lights. When there is ample daylight or when no one is in the room. You not only save on electricity, you also lower temperature as light gives off heat.
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5. Walk. Take the stairs. Or car pool or take public transportation. You not only lower your carbon gas emissions, you are also doing your heart good when you walk regularly.
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6. Unplug cell phone chargers after use. As well as all unused electronic appliances. Some appliances use more electricity even when not in use. Microwave oven with timers uses more electricity on stand by mode the entire day than when you cook dinner with it.
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7. Use both sides of the paper. And make sure to recycle it after. You not only lessen your wastes but you also help stop the unnecessary cutting of more trees.
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8. Turn off shower when soaping. And make sure to avoid long and frequent showers. Showering three times a day not only uses precious fresh water, but also creates more waste water that goes into our rivers and lakes. It dries your skin too.
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9. Never burn anything. Burned resources are lost forever. Burning also releases harmful substances into the atmosphere. Reduce and reuse always. Compost and recycle what you can.
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10. Tell your friends about this. Spread the word, and together we can make a difference.