Earth-Science/Environment

With the development process, there are dangerous risks to future well-being posed by acid rain, ozone depletion and green-house effects. The time ...

Every individual, organisation, or society uses energy in some form or the other. Increase in world population, and consequent material consumption...

More than ten thousand ‘surface’ weather observing stations are currently being operated and maintained by countries all over the world. These make...

The book Spatial Concerns in Development: A Sri Lankan Perspective, based on analyses of experiences gained with various aspects of the development...

Rocks and other parent materials weather to form soils which inherit their characteristics from their respective parent geological materials. There...

Soil genesis that studies the evolution of soils and the changes taking place in soil bodies has received increasing interest and attention in the ...

Remote sensing is the process of acquiring and interpreting spectral measurement at distant location to collect information about earth’s surface f...

Economic minerals are minerals of commercial value. Limestone, gypsum, phosphoric ore and marble are amongst important economic minerals as are var...

Economic minerals are minerals of commercial value. Limestone, gypsum, phosphoric ore and marble are amongst important economic minerals as are var...

Economic minerals are minerals of commercial value. Limestone, gypsum, phosphoric ore and marble are amongst important economic minerals as are var...

Minerals may be located very near Earth’s surface or may lie at great depths below the surface. In both cases, mining methods involve the removal o...

There is a growing concern about the change in composition of the atmosphere, depletion of the ozone shield, pollution of marines and rapid populat...

Every culture, irrespective of its simplicity or complexity, has its own beliefs and practices. It is, therefore, important to study in depth the v...

The present book is the first of its kind covering a wide spectrum of water and wastewater analysis and treatment. It consolidates at one place the...

Environmental pollution control microbiology is an exciting and challenging area of science and engineering. It is concerned with protecting people...

Environmental pollution control microbiology is an exciting and challenging area of science and engineering. It is concerned with protecting people...

Environmental pollution control microbiology is an exciting and challenging area of science and engineering. It is concerned with protecting people...

Environmental pollution control microbiology is an exciting and challenging area of science and engineering. It is concerned with protecting people...

Environmental biotechnology offers unique, efficient, eco-friendly and economically viable options for treatment of wastes in situ and conversion o...

Environmental biotechnology offers unique, efficient, eco-friendly and economically viable options for treatment of wastes in situ and conversion o...

Environmental biotechnology offers unique, efficient, eco-friendly and economically viable options for treatment of wastes in situ and conversion o...

Environmental biotechnology offers unique, efficient, eco-friendly and economically viable options for treatment of wastes in situ and conversion o...

The efforts made at the international level by the United Nations Agencies on Environmental destination problems and saving the earth from the natu...

Post-Rio Earth Summit (1992), the debate on environment has moved beyond just science and scientific concerns. Today our understanding of environme...

Some major developments witnessed during the 20th century have greatly impacted human beings as well as the planet Earth—the only known planet to s...

Some major developments witnessed during the 20th century have greatly impacted human beings as well as the planet Earth—the only known planet to s...

Some major developments witnessed during the 20th century have greatly impacted human beings as well as the planet Earth—the only known planet to s...

Some major developments witnessed during the 20th century have greatly impacted human beings as well as the planet Earth—the only known planet to s...

Some major developments witnessed during the 20th century have greatly impacted human beings as well as the planet Earth—the only known planet to s...

Some major developments witnessed during the 20th century have greatly impacted human beings as well as the planet Earth—the only known planet to s...

Geography of South Asia studies the geography of South Asian countries comprising Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and Maldiv...

The University Grants Commission (UGC) conducts National Eligibility Test (NET) on various subjects every year, in June and December. There are thr...

This textbook deals with various fuel minerals and resources such as coal, lignite, petroleum, natural gas, coal bed methane, atomic minerals and w...

This textbook deals with various fuel minerals and resources such as coal, lignite, petroleum, natural gas, coal bed methane, atomic minerals and w...

This textbook deals with various fuel minerals and resources such as coal, lignite, petroleum, natural gas, coal bed methane, atomic minerals and w...

Communication has come a long way from the times when the beating of a drum or smoke from fire was used to convey messages or herald events. Today’...

Environmental pollution has assumed alarming proportions in recent years. Its adverse impact on the everyday lives of people is increasing in magni...

The University Grants Commission (UGC) conducts National Eligibility Test (NET) on various subjects every year, in June and December. There are thr...

Environment is the concern of one and all. As a matter of fact, we are living on an edge in this age of environmental problems such as pollution, g...

Environment is the concern of one and all. As a matter of fact, we are living on an edge in this age of environmental problems such as pollution, g...

Environment is the concern of one and all. As a matter of fact, we are living on an edge in this age of environmental problems such as pollution, g...

The book Environmental Pollution, is the outcome of intensive efforts made by the author for more than seven years in collection of materials, thei...

Environmental education can be defined as an integral process which deals with man’s interrelationship with his natural and man-made surroundings, ...

Environmentalists across the world have opined that the unprecedented ferocity of nature — be it the catastrophic floods and rains in Orissa and Mo...

Global Warming is one of the most serious threats that the planet Earth and its inhabitants may ever face. The Earth’s climate has changed througho...

Environmental degradation mainly caused by human interference is the most alarming anxiety and a primary concern of the present society. The wetlan...

Environmental degradation mainly caused by human interference is the most alarming anxiety and a primary concern of the present society. The wetlan...

Encyclopaedia of Environment has a wide coverage and comprehensively studies the global environmental change and environmental degradation mainly c...