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Eco Shockers
Annually, about 35 million
ha. of forest are are affected by fire.
We are all passively
smoking 40 cigarettes a day!!!
It takes a million
years for a plastic bag to degrade!!!
The ratio of trees
to people is highly lopsided and the day is not too far
when For every 1 human
being; 5 trees are required
Each of us becoming
deafer day by day!!!
Some years hence we
may have no drinking water left for us on this planet!!!
The Driest place on
Earth is Africa in Chile where one finds 0.03 inches of
rain per year. It would take a century to fill a coffee
mug here
The Earth is slowing
down gradually. Every few years an extra second is added
to make up for the lost time. Millions of years ago a day
on the Earth will have been 20 hours long. Millions of
years hence a day will be 27 hours long.
After independence
India lost forest area in the following manner:
4696 million hectares
forest land to non-forestry purposes.
0.07 Million hectares
to illegal encroachment.
4.37 million hectares
to cultivation.
0.518 Million hectares
to river valley projects.
0.141
Million hectares to industries and townships.
0.061 Million hectares
to transmission lines and roads.
