It is 125 years of the death of Birsa Munda. It is 61 years since Lal Bahadur Shastri taking charge as Prime Minister of India. They continue to inspire us. Simple, committed, and dedicated. Integrity.
Food Safety. Food Hygiene and Sanitation includes handwashing, surface cleaning, and safe storage. Food handling includes separating raw and cooked foods, cooking food to safe internal temperatures, reheating after storage, cooling cooked foods quickly. Consumption before expiry date if any. Washing produce thoroughly, avoiding cross-contamination, etc., help. FSSAI – Food Safety and Standards Authority of India – compliant food consumption helps.
Brain Tumour. Benign and malignant. Let us be vigilant. We need to take early action – medical and/or surgical.
Ocean. Primary component of hydrosphere. Mostly blue. 70% of Earth’s surface (361 million square kilometres), with 97% Earth’s water. One Global Ocean is divided into five oceans – Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Antarctic and Arctic. Seas, gulfs, bays, etc., are also part of it. It forms 377,000 km of coastline. Energy, carbon, and water cycles originated here form the bases for climate and weather patterns worldwide. Vertically, it has zones – photic, mesopelagic, and aphotic. Maybe some 2 million species live in the ocean. Point Nemo, the furthest pole of inaccessibility in the ocean, is 2,688 km away from the nearest land. Average depth of the ocean is 3,688 meters. The deepest region of the ocean is at the Mariana Trench, located in the Pacific Ocean near the Northern Mariana Islands. The deepest part, named Challenger Deep, is having the depth of 10,971 meters. 1.4 billion cubic kilometres of water in various forms in/on the Earth. Only 2.5% is fresh water. 70% of the fresh water is in the form of ice in glaciers and snow cover. 30% is groundwater. 0.3% is in lakes and river systems.
The temperatures in the ocean range from -2 deg C to 30. There is a continuous circulation of water in the oceans. Warm surface currents cool as they move away from the tropics, and the water becomes denser and sinks. The cold water moves back towards the equator as a deep sea current, driven by changes in the temperature and density of the water, before eventually welling up again towards the surface. The ocean is warming as a result of climate change, and this rate of warming is increasing.
Collectively, currents move enormous amounts of water and heat around the globe influencing climate. These wind driven currents are largely confined to the top hundreds of meters of the ocean. At greater depth, the thermohaline circulation drives water motion. This deep ocean water circulation is relatively slow.
Oceanic water is salty. 3.5%. And is alkaline with pH 8.05 to 8.08 on average, 7.8 to 8.4 overall. Ocean is home to marine life, sea life or ocean life – collective ecological communities that encompass all aquatic animals, plants, algae, fungi, protists, single-celled microorganisms and associated viruses, 2 million+ species. 250,000 marine species have been documented so far.
Can we appreciate water, ocean, and hydrosphere? All Panchabhuta – bhumi, vayu, jala, agni, and antariksha – actually. Can we internalize? Can we be useful in our life being in sync with them?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. As openly, as naturally as possible. In N? jeevaarthiyoga for 7L.