Human waste, leaked from sewers, untreated sewage and poorly designed landfills, is one of the biggest causes of groundwater contamination today. How can groundwater pollution from human waste be prevented and what can you do as an individual?
Tag: Ecology
Are solar panels bad because we use fossil fuels to build them? The is a classic case of using the Nirvana Fallacy to tear down many potential environmental solutions. But as we fight a global ecological crisis, we cannot afford to encourage such logic.
Trees cool the air in 2 ways: 1) by intercepting sunlight (shading), they allow less heat to reach the ground; 2) by transpiration cooling, which is the cooling effect caused when water from stomata gets converted into water vapor and evaporates.
Almost every accessible piece of land today is being utilized for some or the other…
(100th post on Eco-Intelligent!) This may sound like a philosophical post, but it’s not. Nevertheless,…
The climate change debate is riddled with misconceptions that makes it confusing. Take a look at 7 main reasons why people deny climate change.
The key factor for generation of diversity on Earth is evolution. Environmental disturbances play a…
