Category Archives: water

Seafood

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

Seafood is any sea animal or seaweed that is served as food or is suitable for eating, particularly seawater animals, such as fish and shellfish (including mollusks and crustaceans). By extension, in North America although not generally in the United … Continue reading →

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Red tide

Posted on June 23, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

“Red tide” is a common name for a phenomenon known as an algal bloom, an event in which estuarine, marine, or fresh water algae accumulate rapidly in the water column, or “bloom”. These algae, more specifically phytoplankton, are microscopic, single-celled … Continue reading →

Posted in BIODIVERSITY, Environment, oceans, water | 3 Comments

Industrialisation bringing acid rain to India

Posted on June 15, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

There is growing evidence to believe that the incidence of acid rain is increasing in India. Many experts link the phenomenon with increasing industrialisation in the country.India Meteorological Department (imd) has found increasing acidity in rain samples from Pune and … Continue reading →

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Smog and Acid Rain

Posted on June 10, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

Particularly for large metropolitan cities, smog and poor air quality is a pressing environmental problem. Smog primarily consists of carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds chemically interacting with heat from sunlight forming ground level ozone. Smog is that familiar … Continue reading →

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