Fuming Forests !!!

Recently, there has been many occurrences of forest fires all around the world.
Scientists attribute this to the climatic change. A statistics states that the number of forest fires that occurred last year was almost equal to that of the recent decade. This stat has left a sense of panic among scientists.

Many say these forest fires has nothing to do with the current climate change. But the counter for this theory is that, due to the gradual change in the climate, the summers have become warmer than usual leaving the forest area to dry resulting in fires.
But usually tropical forest are less prone to fires but when they dry up the result of such disasters can be massive.

So what it is with forest fires? How will it affect humans? Well, scientists state that the carbon and the carbon-related gases that result due to the forest fires can adversely affect the quality of air leaving humans prone to respiratory disorders. Also there is no end to these forest fires and they are expected to get worse with time.

Forest which unfortunately turns out to be the home of number of rare species of flora and fauna is becoming fast depleting. Every year thousands of acres of forests become the victims of these furious fires resulting in the disappearance of shelter and hideouts for number of animals.

An interesting approach made by the Bush administration for these forest fires is to encourage the logging agencies to cut down more trees and to grow more fire resistant trees. I am not sure how that might help because it might initiate the danger of number of tree species becoming extinct.

Humans are what they are, Thanks to these life saving forests! But humans have a peculiar way of repaying gratitude to these kind forests such as logging, so on and so forth.

Is That Your Footprint???

Today i thought of sharing an interesting term i came across long time ago " the CARBON FOOTPRINT". Actually it is not any kind of left overs of carbon but it is our carbon footprint. It is believed that everyday each man in someway or the other contributes to the earths carbon content and this is called as his or her carbon footprint. Not only carbon but also other green house gases.

This is pretty interesting when we know what are the footprints that we leave behind. This includes our everyday usage of vehicles, LPG that we use for cooking, cooking oil, the refrigerator, air conditioner, lights etc. It is said that the food that we consume also in some way contributes to the carbon content of the earth.

Everyone can measure their carbon footprint by assessing their daily usage of the above mentioned. There is this very good site especially for calculating ones carbon footprint which allows you to assess your everyday carbon footprint.

There are number ways being suggested for one to reduce his or her carbon footprint. On such is to take public transport often. For example when one takes a bus to a certain point his individual carbon expense due to his/her vehicle is avoided. Also taking trains instead of flights as much as possible is yet another way to reduce your Carbon Footprint. By turning off a computer when not in use one can also reduce ones CF. These solution may seem silly but when implemented in masses can prove to be effective.

Earth Imbroglio

Earth is in yet another era. This is not the beginning of something dramatic or fascinating rather it seems to the end to her fascination.
Earth as She is being betrayed by Her own major denizen as begun to lose her tolerance towards them and this she exposed in the form of recent catastrophic moments.
This blog is all about earth, the global warming as we call it, its threats, solutions,catastrophes and so on.