Environment

Are Pine trees major source of forest fires? Its people who burn trees.

Are Pine trees major source of forest fires? Its people who burn trees. Recently I had a chance to visit Solan and read a local news paper. A news item in The Tribune Chandigarh date June 3rd 2012 reported a statement of forest official that Pine trees are ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 4 2012 - 6:21am

Will Punjab will be a desert in 38 years?

 A visit to Punjab made any one happy. The prime reason has always been  to see canals, good roads, hardworking people, basic cleanliness. Chandigarh  a  Union Territory  represents all of Punjab, Haryana and even HP. While waiting for a flight at Chandiga ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 4 2012 - 6:56am

Global warming vs local warming

There is debate on whether global warming is taking place or not? On World Environment day CHEC India organised valuable national seminar under leadership of President Professor H. S. Sharma.  ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 5 2012 - 11:45am

Use Of Pesticides And Organic Farming Vs GM Food

When Sulphur, Copper and organo metallic pesticides were replaced by systemic fungicides and pesticides it was a great breakthrough. Cash crops like cotton attract maximum use of pesticides. In a popular TV show in India, advice was given not to use pestic ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 24 2012 - 1:46pm

Organic farming needs special methods and genotypes

  Critics of organic agriculture claim it is too low-yieldingto be a viable alternative to conventional agriculture. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that poor performance is not an intrinsic property oforganic production, but rather the resul ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 26 2012 - 4:41am

Our Global Capacity To Observe Earth – Too Much Or Too Little?

Today you'll find a myriad of different Earth observation systems covering all from local to global areas, collected from sub-sea to ground to air and of course space. Providers of these Earth observation services come from both public and private sec ...

Article - Bente Lilja Bye - Jun 29 2012 - 3:29pm

What is organic in "organic" farming and "organic" food?

What is organic farming and “organic food”?  In the EU in many stores, particularly in Germany, there are shelves with the label “organic food”. To my surprise they cost almost double or one and half times the “normal food”. Perhaps farmers in India or Jap ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 5 2012 - 10:53pm

Soil, Organic Farming And Understanding The Nutrient Cycle

Today in a show on television called “Asar”, Mr. Amir Khan rightly upheld my point that it's better to eat slightly damaged or slightly infected fruits instead of eating totally shiny and infection-free fruits and vegetables and government representa ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 8 2012 - 11:19am

What are nutrients to a plant? What is the role of organic manure?

Plants have a capacity to uptake minerals from the soil and use them for synthesis of their own cellular components. Plants are autotrophs and they can make their own food and human beings are heterotrophs; we have to get food from plants. All life on eart ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 11 2012 - 5:15pm

Bio-fuels and Climate Change Mitigation

Global climate change has stimulated efforts to reduce CO 2 emissions. Photosynthetic organisms use solar energy to generate reducing equivalents and incorporate atmospheric CO 2 into organic molecules. Cellular phenotype is a manifestation of gene express ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 14 2012 - 1:31am