Facts

Solar radiation is the biggest energy source on the surface of the earth. Sunder ban is the place where man eating tigers are commonly found. Wolf is the animal which is very fast disappearing from India. The most important book Limits of Growth was published in 1972. Hornbill is the bird which is the symbol of the Bombay Natural History Society. Arabia was considered the home of the mythical bird Phoenix. Coal fire sets up powerful convention currents which lift pollutants out of the house through the chimney. This is why Coal fire reduces indoor air pollution. The worlds first public zoo was established in Paris and France. Delhi is the metropolitan Indian city in which polluted air hangs above like a cloud.

Nansen bottle is the device used for collecting deep water samples. Nuclear Reactor causes the Chernobyl Disaster. Peepal is famous by the name of Bodhi tree or Tree of Enlightment. IUCN is the worlds body which brings out the World Conservation Energy. The International Crane Foundation is located in Wisconsin. The office of Scientific Committee on problems of Environment is located in Paris. Iron is the most widely used metal. The worlds largest radio telescope is located in New Mexico. Sheep is the first animal in the world to be cloned. Nylon is the first wholly synthetic fiber. Chennai was the place where the first modern astronomical observatory built in India. Carrot is the vegetable that is grown throughout the world. One of the major foods, Potato was originated in Chile. Seeds of the Cocoa tree are the main source natural flavor of chocolate.

The vegetable which is fruiting of the fungus is mushroom. Soya bean is the crop which has the maximum content of protein. Eliza was the first computer that appeared to be intelligent. Date Palm was the first tree to be cultivated as a crop. Aryabhatta was the one who claimed for the first time that earth is sphere and it rotates on its axis. Atmosphere of the first person who determined the size of the earth. The first person who operated a computer using computer language. China is the one-third of the worlds known coal reserves. China is the one who has installed the largest number of Biogas plants. Delhi is the first Indian city to adopt CNG for public transport. 99% of the crust of the earth is composed of 10 elements. When a volcano erupts, Phosphorus and Nitrogen cycle is erupted. Lightning and Volcano both causes forest fires.

Hippocrates was the first to recognize the problem of water pollution. Lake Baikal is the deepest fresh water lake in the world. Southeast Asia has the largest cave ever been discovered. The hottest spring in the world is of Kulu, Himanchal, India. The oldest rock ever been found on earth is in Minnesota River valley, USA. Kanadu was the first who gave the concept of atom. Brahmaputra firstly treated zero as a number and shows its mathematical operations. Sabeer Bhatia created the first free e-mail service hotmail. The first who led Indian expedition to Antarctica is S.Z Qazim. The most powerful microscope is installed in Japan. The biggest deposit of gold lies in Witwatersrand, South Africa. The most powerful accelerator, the atmosmasher was installed in Illinois, USA. By Annular rings, foresters examine to estimate the age of the tree. The International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals.
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A liter of water weighs 1.01 kgs. In a 100 year period, a water molecule spends 98 years in the ocean, 20 months as ice, about 2 weeks and rivers and less than a week in the atmosphere. While reading a page of print the eyes do not move continually across the page. They move in a series of jumps, called fixations, from 1 clump of words to the next. The word encyclopedia is derived from the, two Greek words meaning a circle of learning. The oldest known encyclopedia was written in Greek about 2000 years ago. Its not longer in existence. The oldest encyclopedia in existence was written in 1st century AD by Roman Scholar Gaius Plinius Secundus {Plinly the Elder}; called the Natural History.