New Year Wishes

I pray the almighty that the year 2009 will be a wonderful year for everyone. Wishing you all a Happy, Peaceful and Prosperous New Year.

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Special Characteristics of Nocturnal Animals

Nocturnal animals generally have the following characteristics to make themselves adaptable to the nocturnal habit. They have Sensitive Ears, Night Eyes and acute sense of smell.

Sensitive Ears: The nocturnal animals have sensitive ears to protect themselves from their predators and to hunt for their preys.

Sense of Smell: Some nocturnal animals find their prey by their acute sense of smell. They smell and track the location of their prey and feed on it.

Night Eyes: These Eyes in nocturnal animals like owls, nighthawks, lorises etc are very large. The large eyes helps the animals to see at night by gathering the light effectively. Tapetum, a mirror like layer in the eyes also helps them to see in dark.

Nocturnal Animals

Many animals turns active during the night times. These nocturnal animals take rest or sleep by the day time and becomes active at nights to search for its food and its needs. Some animals are nocturnal in habit to escape from their predators and some attracts mates in dark and some can find their food only at nights. Many animals in the hot regions and in the deserts are nocturnal since it will be very hot during the day time.

I will post about the features in animals which makes them nocturnal in habit in my next post. Keep Checking!



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India in 2012 and 2020 according to Pakistan Newspaper

There is no harm in dreaming but you should try to put a lid on it if they are too wild. According to their Daily Express newspaper, this is what the map of India will look like in 2012.





Nice. Atleast south India is putting up a fight. I wonder if this map includes Goa? Imagine what an Pakistan -(disputed) India cricket match would be like in 2020. Who Knows tomorrow they may dream of making America as Islamic Republic of Pakistan ....... Americans be prepared!!!!

http://express.com.pk/epaper/PoPupwindow.aspx?newsID=1100533603&Issue=NP_LHE&Date=20081203

http://express.com.pk/epaper/PoPupwindow.aspx?newsID=1100533604&Issue=NP_LHE&Date=20081203


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Animation on Global Climate Change

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Recycle your Cell Phones!

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The Human Impact

For centuries, humans have had an impact on animal and plant habitats. For example, some animals had to adapt to new environments created by human settlement and industry. Also, by selective breeding, scientists have altered the genetic make-up of some plants and animals to create superior crops and meat for human consumption. Fruits, such as grapes and oranges have been bred so that they no longer have seeds and are therefore easy to digest.

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List of Evnironmental issues

This is a list of environmental issues that are due to human activity. These articles relate to the anthropogenic effects on the natural environment.

* Climate change — Global warming • Fossil fuels • Sea level rise • Greenhouse gas

* Conservation — Habitat destruction • Habitat fragmentation • Species extinction • Pollinator decline • Coral bleaching • Whaling • Holocene extinction event • Invasive species

* Dams - Environmental impacts of dams

* Energy - Energy conservation • Renewable energy • Efficient energy use • Renewable energy commercialization

* Genetic engineering — Genetic pollution

* Intensive farming — Overgrazing • Irrigation • Monoculture • Environmental effects of meat production

* Land degradation — Land pollution • Desertification

Soil — Soil conservation • Soil erosion • Soil contamination • Soil salination

* Nanotechnology — Nanotoxicology • Nanopollution

* Nuclear issues — Nuclear fallout • Nuclear meltdown • Nuclear power

* Overpopulation — Burial

* Ozone depletion

* Pollution — Air pollution • Light pollution • Noise pollution • Thermal pollution

Water pollution — Acid rain • Eutrophication • Ocean dumping • Oil spills • Water crisis

* Resource depletion — Exploitation of natural resources

Consumerism — Consumer capitalism • Planned obsolescence
Fishing — Blast fishing • Bottom trawling • Cyanide fishing • Ghost nets • Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing • Overfishing • Shark finning
Logging — Clearcutting • Deforestation • Illegal logging
Mining — Acid mine drainage • Mountaintop removal mining

* Toxins — Chlorofluorocarbons • DDT • Dioxin • Heavy metals • Herbicides • Pesticides • Toxics use reduction • Toxic waste

* Urban sprawl

* Waste — E-waste • Waste disposal incidents


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Cleaning with the natural cleaning products

To go for green cleaning is to use natural cleaning products. This means that green cleaning avoids the use of chemical-based cleaning solutions that could carry harmful toxics. Those can cause negative health effects from allergies to irritations to more serious health problems such as cancer and organ damages. Sadly, this kind of products are the ones used by majority of house owners and keepers today.

However, because of the growing environmental and health awareness of the people, green cleaning is now getting a considerable attention from the public. Its various health and environmental advantages are adding more reasons for the people to switch from chemical-based to natural cleaning products. This can be seen on the rising demand on green cleaning products and the increasing number of companies offering them.

If you are one of those who are not yet into green cleaning, then it's time for you to consider it. Don't you think it's time to give something back to the earth? Even just in a way of not adding anymore pollutants into the environment? Assess your cleaning products. Though you might be already using truly effective cleaners, make sure that they really do protect your family and that they are being harmless to the environment.

As an addition to your use of natural cleaning products, here are some green cleaning tips that could maximize the positive cleaning effects that you can get.

- Concentrate on entryways. Dirt can get into your home through people's feet. And who knows where that feet had gone and what it had stepped on? Anything it had passed through can be a source of grimes and germs, that is why it is important to frequently clean your home's doorways and entrances. You may also use some doormats to at least minimize the germs and dirt there can be in the sole of people's shoes of feet.

- Wiping instead of spraying. When applying the cleaner, use a cloth and wipe it on the item or surface instead of spraying it. This will minimize the particles in the indoor air and also will reduce the chemicals in case you need to use a commercial cleaning product.

- Use preferable cleaning chemical, only if needed. It cannot be denied that there are some stains and dirt that are too stubborn to be removed using green cleaning products. If the necessity of using a chemical product arises, make sure that you use an environmentally preferred one.

- Vacuum, extract, rinse and dry carpets properly. When cleaning carpets, make sure that you properly and thoroughly execute the vacuuming, washing, rinsing and drying processes. Moist carpets can lead to mold growth and can also cause the development of rust if in contact with metal furniture.

- Practice preventive measures. Prevention will always be better than cure no matter how effective your cleaning product or tool may be. This will save you time, money and energy, not to mention that this will keep you away from the possibility of having to use chemical-based cleaning solutions.

- Always clean "touch items". These are items that you would come in contact with through hands. Examples are door handles, phones and door knobs. Dirt and germs can be transferred from one person to another with these items as the connectors so make sure that they are always clean.

These are just few of the many ways of going for green cleaning apart from the use of natural cleaning products. If these and other cleaning tips are properly observe, it is for sure that your green cleaning products will yield its optimum results.

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Advertising on blogs made easy by PayingPost

Hello bloggers, if you are a regular blogger and if you keep updating your blog, you can earn a decent amount of bucks for doing it. You can start advertising on blogs and writing paid reviews. Its not a tedious task to earn money by writing paid posts. Its surprisingly very simple. There are a number of pay per post programs ( PPP), which offers you money for writing reviews and posts. And many will be in a dilemma as to choose which PPP program which provides the best-in-class services.

Recently, I came across a PPP site, www.payingpost.com which offers the best services to its advertisers and publishers as well. The opportunity creation fee is 50% less compared to other PPP programs. PayingPost takes only 2 business days to approve a blog, whereas the other PPP programs takes 2 weeks and even more than that. So, if you are blog gets qualified and approved from payingpost.com, you can start earning within 3 days. They take much efforts to find more and more advertisers, which in turn helps their publishers to earn more money.

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My first income report ( after 45 days from getting PR 2)

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Mushrooms and other fungi

Neither plants nor animal, mushrooms and other types of fungi form a unique group or organisms of more than 80,000 species. Unlike plants, fungi lack the green food-making compound chlorophyll- so cannot make their own food. Instead, they release enzymes that decompose living, dead or dying organisms and absorb the nutrients and minerals released. Fungi range from dull grey mushrooms to brightly coloured toadstools.



There are many types of fungi. The fungi are divided into 5 groups based on reproduction. They are

sac fungi- Sac fungi, including morels, cup fungi and truffles produce spores, in special sac, or ascus.

Club fungi- They produce spores on club shaped fertile cells.

Blights- They produce oospores and many blights live in water.

Moulds- They produce zygospores and often grows on bread.

Imperfect Fungi- Such as athlete's foot, ring worm and thurst, have no sexual stage to their life cycle.

Check out for the useful fungi in my next post.

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Types of Storms

Hurricanes

These huge storms can measure about 650 km in diameter. Hurricanes develop as clusters of thunderstorms over warm tropical seas. They tighten into a spiral, with a calm central ring of low pressure called the eye. They sweep wastward with heavy rain and winds upto 350kmph. As they pass over cool water or land, their intensity lessens.

Tornadoes

Small but ferocious, tornadoes are whirling masses of wind spiralling beneath a thunder cloud. They roar past in minutes, bringing winds of upto 400 kmh that leave a trail of destruction. Air pressure at the center is low that air rushes in at enormous speed, sucking up people, cars and even whole trains.

ThunderStorms
Created from huge cumulonimbus clouds, thunderstorms bring heavy rain, thunder, and lightning. They are made by strong updraughts along a cold front or over ground warmed by summer sun. Air expanding quickly causes thunder, the rumbling that follows lightning.

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