Ozone Layer – It’s depletion and aftereffects

Ozone depletion describes two distinct, but related observations: a slow, steady decline of about 4% per decade in the total volume of ozone in Earth’s Stratosphere (ozone layer) since the late 1970s, and a much larger, but seasonal, decrease in stratospheric ozone over Earth’s polar regions during the same period. The latter phenomenon is commonly [...]

Aspects Of Global Warming

The average facade temperature of the globe has augmented more than 1 degree Fahrenheit since 1900 and the speed of warming has been almost three folds the century long average since 1970. This increase in earth’s average temperature is called Global warming. More or less all specialists studying the climate record of the earth have [...]

Avalanche : The Nature’s Fury

What merred the excitement of watching the snowfall ? Certainly, the Avalanche. The fear of avalanche looms large in mountain regions. Occuring due to heavy snowfall, a snow avalanche basically comprises a large mass of rock debris and snow that moves rapidly down a mountain slope and sweeps everything in it’s path. Increasing movement of [...]