Why in News? The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has given clearance to a mega project in the southern part of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The NITI…

Why in News? Heat waves have become a major concern for India this year. The scorching summer heat has started prematurely, as per the recent IMD reports. If the record…

Why in News? The coal-fired Chandrapur Super Thermal Power Station (CSTPS) in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district is a seven-unit facility with a capacity of around 2920 MW. It lies in the…

Why in News? GBBC India is the Indian implementation of the global Great Backyard Bird Count, which runs for 4 days every February. India was among 190 countries that participated…

Why in News? The sum and variation of our biological wealth, known as biodiversity, is essential to the future of this planet. India currently hosts 17% of the planet’s human…

NUTRIENT CYCLING Themovement of nutrient elements through the various components of an ecosystem is called nutrient cycling. Another name of nutrient cycling is biogeochemical cycles (bio: living organism, geo: rocks, air, water).…

ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION An important characteristic of all communities is that composition and structure constantly change in response to the changing environmental conditions. This change is orderly and sequential, parallel with…

Energy Flow The pathway along which the energy flows through the organisms can be studied in the following ways: a) Food chain Grazing Detritus Parasitic a) Food chain a) Food…

INTRODUCTION TO ECOLOGY ORIGIN OF EARTH We live on a beautiful planet called earth, along with a wide variety of plants, animals and other organisms. Our earth, however, is part…