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  ☆  THE FORESTS ON FIRE! The Amazon rainforest stretches throughout an area of  670   million  hectares . It  has been the world's largest carbon dioxide sink. This wonderful rainforest is also the abode of innumerable species of animals which are the largest collection of living plants and animal species in the world. 💭 FACT CORNER ➜The region is home to about 2.5 million insect species, tens of thousands of plants, and some 2,000 birds and mammals. Even after knowing all this, why do we still harm it? What is wrong with us? More precisely, "What was wrong with us while we were continuously deforesting the jungle for our own selfish purposes, and which then led to be one of the main causes of a fierce wildfires around the world?" Hear this out: The total fires that lasted from January to October consumed a total of  906 hectares  of the land of the Amazon forest. Do you know how much that is? It is too freaking much!  •••••••••••...

" Each year you sleep,  you are one step closer to becoming extinct."   Isn't this true? I personally think that it is the closest one can get to the truth. The Earth, approximately 4.5 billion years old, has since forever provided us with everything. Infact, what I believe is that, the only reason we are alive today is because our Mother Earth has been so compassionate to provide us with oxygen to inhale, water to drink, trees for food, theirs shade for comfort, the sun for heat and light.  I have not known a single moment, from the olden times, when there wasn't a sustainability maintained between the ecosystem and human race. The forests were lush and green and the Earth was alive with the chirping of the birds, the roars of the lions, the sights of our long gone dinosaurs, the gushing of the fresh rivers, the sight of vast glaciers and a happy and content human population. There was a time when endless jungles covered the land as the waves of a wind ruffled sea co...

  Every year the World Ozone Day is celebrated on 16th September with a different theme. This year, the theme was the celebration of 35 years of global ozone layer protection. Like so many other environmental issues, the depletion of ozone layer has also been a major concern since the 1980s. Through my blog this time, I will be revealing the past, the present and the future of the ozone layer without which there shall be no life on Earth. (Don't worry I am no fortune teller, but what I am going to be presenting is merely the scientific data, which I hope will help to encourage people to save our precious Earth and its inhabitants.) So let's begin! Q1. What is the ozone layer? It is a particular region in the layers of atmosphere of the Earth. It absorbs 97 to 99% of the sun's ultraviolet radiation, which otherwise would potentially damage the exposed life forms near the surface of the earth. Q2. What happened? [The Past] In the 1980s, scientists began to realize that ...