Environment Essay Examples and Topics. Page 20

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Bhopal Disaster Response and Impacts

The presence of water and MIC resulted to the occurrence of an exothermic reaction that resulted to the increase of temperature and pressure in the storage tank.
  • Subjects: Disasters
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 643

The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation

The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, ENEC, brought together six UAE member states, the International Atomic Energy Agency and other countries such as the United States of America. The assertions made above indicate that UAE relies [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 559

Green Power Policies in the United States of America

With the uncertainties in the oil market and the rapid deterioration of other sources of energy, it is time that the American government and other concerned organizations considered revolutionizing this source of energy in order [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1731

Recycling Firm Business Plan

The business will be called "Greensipi" - a plastic recycling firm that will be responsible for number of products and services.
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1371

Wetland Management and Business

It is known that wetlands serves very important roles in the societies, ranging from ecological matters to educational, there would be an assessment of the contribution of the wetland and that of the land it [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 556

Sustainability Project: CERES Educational Park

The amount of resources available to the current residents remains significantly the same even after inclusion of the medium density housing, this will over the time develop into a supply-demand phenomenah and eventually influence the [...]
  • Subjects: Global Warming
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1637

Buncefield Incident Causes and Effects

As a result, the defects in the switch and the failure to inform the users of how critical the padlock was caused an escalation of the incident. This was as a result of the fuel [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1406

Reducing Energy Usage

The development of the national grid led to a switch to electric power as the main source of energy.hydroelectric power and Wind power are yet to be utilized.
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  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 520

Renewable Energy Sources

Thus, the establishment that the use of fossil fuels adversely affects the environment is important in explaining the shift to the use of renewable energy sources.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1695

21st Century Environmental Perils

Al Gore mentioned that the bold steps that are supposed to be taken in order to deal with the climate crisis are similar steps that are supposed to be taken to deal with the problem [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1630

Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Reefs

This essay addresses some of the disturbances which have been experienced in the coral reefs of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary together with measures which have been implemented to salvage the ecosystem.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 597

Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Affects US Debate

Although it has been argued that the nuclear disaster of Fukushima Daiichi would have a direct impact on the nuclear policy of the United States of America, this disaster should not have any effect on [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 591

The Seriousness of Global Warming

The problem touches upon the rise of temperature of the Earth's atmosphere as well as the influence of gaseous emissions and combustion gases, which are the reasons for the ecologists and scientists' concern.
  • Subjects: Global Warming
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 527

Environment and Species in International Relations

According to Torgerson: "The environmentalism that came onto the public scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s was part of an outburst of activism in civil society that was followed by the emergence of [...]
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  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1591

Smith and Fong Company Sustainable Products

This American company has been in existence since the 1980's and in 1997 Smith and Fong Company got fully incorporated as a sustainable bamboo flooring product manufacturer. Smith and Fong Company is a market leader [...]
  • Subjects: Air Pollution
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 568

Emissions Trading System

In the pursuit of the prevention of further depletion of the ozone, the emission-trading scheme aims at reducing by significant margins, the emission levels by regulating the amount of pollutants emitted by individual firms.
  • Subjects: Air Pollution
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1934

Economics and Human Induced Climate Change

In this case, climate change is an economic problem because it has increased the costs of energy and we all know that energy is used for production activities.
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 647

Nuclear Energy Benefits and Demerits

The aim of the research is to provide substantial proof that nuclear energy is not efficient and sustainable. It is also argued that the whole process and the impacts of nuclear energy production make the [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2378

Carbon-DI-Oxide in the Construction Industy

As a result of the fact that these gases are present in the atmosphere in excessive amount, the heat that is sent back from the surface of the earth is put off by the atmosphere [...]
  • Subjects: Ecological Identity
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3075

Impacts of acidic deposition

The principal emissions that contribute to acidic precipitation are sulfur dioxide and the various oxides of nitrogen that are as result of the burning of the fossil fuels.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2416

Biology of Climate Change

There is sufficient evidence that recent climate change is a result of human activities."Warming of the climate system is unequivocal; as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 538

Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emission

The use of incentives to increase carbon credits is also a powerful tool in controlling the amount of carbon dioxide being emitted to the atmosphere.
  • Subjects: Ecological Identity
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1099

Environmental Defense Fund

As part of its broad objectives, the membership of EDF is open and consequently, any interested party can join the group.
  • Subjects: Climate Change
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 887

The Greenhouse Effect: Process, Components and Risks

The long wave radiation absorbed by the space rises the temperature of the earth and the atmosphere and the heated greenhouse gases radiate long wave radiations allover and majority of it is redirected to the [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 823

Identity: Discourse of Environment

A sense of identity is entrenched in the present environment of human being, as there exists a connection between man and the world.
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  • Subjects: Ecological Identity
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 559

Changing Flora and Fauna in the Canadian Arctic

Some of the effects that may come up owing to the reduction in the tundra vegetation and the expansion of the forest cover is the reduction in the level of the ratio of the reflected [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 28
  • Words: 7547

Environmental and Social Impact Assessment

The article provides information on how to determine social and economic impacts and the importance of the same in environmental assessment in Canada.
  • Subjects: Ecological Identity
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 691

Sale of Forests in United Kingdom

However, the public is rather skeptical about the capacity of the private owners to manage the forests because of the following reasons.
  • Subjects: Ecological Identity
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1065

Environmental Effects of Conflict

Due to the similarity in the landscape of Iraq and some parts of the gulf, some effects of the Iraq war are similar to the effects of the gulf war.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3263

Energy Resource Plan: Towards Sustainable Conservation of Energy

Efficient use of some sources of energy such as fossil energy reduces instances of pollution, translating to the fact that people will enjoy healthy lifestyles. The government must encourage citizens to use renewable sources of [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 839

Human and Nature: Forgetting the Nature’s Gifts

This land is human property that is "by whatever means necessary", and people should find the abilities to control their power and make it less harmful to the land, nature, and all those who live [...]
  • Subjects: Ecological Identity
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 889

Australian, Perth Water Supply Crisis

The article Australia's Water Crisis brings to light the grim effects of the dwindling water resources within the city of Sydney.
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  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 800

Global Warming – The Biggest Threat in the 21st Century

According to Solomon "global warming has become a question for citizens and not only for scientists"."Global warming has implications on our quality of life-it affects our nutrition, and brings about adverse changes in natural phenomena [...]
  • Subjects: Global Warming
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 843

Environmental and Cultural Impact of Bottled Water

Specifically, the approach to solving the problem will span a careful investigation into the effects of bottled water and waste bottles in the environment, through the collection and analysis of primary data, interviewing company executives [...]
  • Subjects: Ecological Identity
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 584

Ecosystems: Biodiversity and Habitat Loss

The review of the topic shows that the relationship between urban developmental patterns and the dynamics of ecosystem are concepts that are still not clearly understood in the scholarly world as well as in general.
  • Subjects: Climate Change
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 927

Spin, Science and Climate Change

Proponents of climate change argue scientifically that the cause of global warming is the accumulation of green house gases and water vapor in the atmosphere over a period.
  • Subjects: Climate Change
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 550

A Gas Leak Incident in Bhopal in 1984

The article titled The Incident, Response and Settlement by the Bhopal Information Center briefly explains the circumstances surrounding the accident and then goes ahead to explain the necessary steps that were taken by the company [...]
  • Subjects: Disasters
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 834

Environmental Protection and Waste Management

The analysis also focuses on the intellectual behaviour of people regarding the environmental effects of waste. There is lack of strong basis for scientific findings and current guidance is causing the environmental challenges to become [...]
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  • Subjects: Recycling
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1724

Water Resources in Economic

Proposals on the economics' of water resources FAO states, the escalating responsiveness that water shortage has brought forth the acceptance of the opinion that "water is an economic good" as one of the four Dublin [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 538

Global Warming and Coral Reefs

The frightening evidence of the devastating tendencies in coral reef reduction can be illustrated by the case of the coral cover of the Rio Bueno, a coral reef site on the North East of Jamaica [...]
  • Subjects: Global Warming
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2026

Making Solar Energy More Affordable

The use of solar energy can be critical for environmental and economic sustainability of many communities that can be located in different regions of the world.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 543

Greenhouse Gases Prediction

The practice has significantly contributed to the increasing amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The ever-increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will eventually increase [...]
  • Subjects: Climate Change
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 564

Social Concepts and Climate Change

All these are illustrations that climate change is real and skeptics of the process have no sound grounds to support their argument.
  • Subjects: Climate Change
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 875

History of Environmental Regulation in US

The environment movement of the 1960's led to major environmental changes to address issues of water, oil and air pollution. Another incident that contributed to the awareness is the pollution of the Great Lakes.
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 540

Climate Change and Human Health

In the field of climate change and human health, skills of project management are necessary during planning, evaluation of options, development of effective policies, and arrangement of program actions and resources to produce fruitful outcomes.
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  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 813

Gas Drilling Project: Economics and Environment

The proponents would argue against that by indicating the fact that deposition of these chemicals would not cause direct threats to the ecosystem.the US efficiency policy was established to guide the utilization of the country's [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 583

Climate Change: The Complex Issue of Global Warming

By definition, the greenhouse effect is the process through which the atmosphere absorbs infrared radiation emitted from the Earth's surface once it is heated directly by the sun during the day.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 928

The Environmental Impact of Nuclear Energy

The country has the opportunity to enhance its capacity to generate electricity from nuclear following the approval of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build and operate between three to four units of the Vogtle [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1162

Human Population and Global Resources

Specifically, the essay shall explore the impact of increased population on natural resources, energy availability, food production, and the environment. A rapid increase in population has overstretched our natural resources and at the same time, [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 533

Clean Sources of Energy: Advantages and Disadvantages

The qualities of environments in the world are noted and the article makes a particular focus on the energy use industry, its modes and the effects that it has on the surrounding nature and people.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 870

NGOs and Environmental politics

Political and environmental experts foresee the role of NGOs in environmental politics increasing in the future[17]. Even though they have been criticized from different quotas for a number of vices, the role played by NGOs [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 1961

Waste Management Strategies in Australia

This is because the population of the country is increasing leading to the creation of more waste. The increase in the quantity of waste generated in the country has a direct link to the increase [...]
  • Subjects: Recycling
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1374

Colgan Air and the Planes Landing Issue

There is great dependence on the abilities of the plane and weather, and a person has to make quick decisions in directing the machine.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 568

Is Global Warming Good or Bad?

In my opinion, global warming causes adverse effects that outweighs the positives and therefore, efforts should be invested to manage it through mitigation in order to lessen greenhouse gases emissions, adapting to its effects and [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1433

The Role of Political Environmentalism in the Modern World

Returning to the term eco-fascisms, I think that this one of the most grounded explanations of the deplorable situation in the world. In this respect, the ideas of free-market environmentalism seem to be increasingly attractive [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Processes
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 797

Drilling in the Alaskan Wilderness

The mandate of this report is to study the project in relation to ethical issues encountered in its management. This is against the code of ethics in project management.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1649

Global Warming Should Not Cause Panic

From the above evidence provided by different scholars it evident that global warming is something that should not cause a lot of worries and panic to the people.
  • Subjects: Global Warming
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1214

Is the push to go green enough or too late?

As such, this research paper will base its argument in discussing the numerous environmental concerns and the strategy of going green as a preventive measure to addressing the environmental issues as we seek to enquire [...]
  • Subjects: Recycling
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2160

Global Warming: Causes, Effects and the Future

Science of the greenhouse effect has been known for quite a long time where the similarity between the radioactive properties of the earth's atmosphere and of the glass in a green-house has been pointed out [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1893

Wind Energy, Its Advantages and Disadvantages

Reliable sources of energy need to be renewable; they include wind energy, solar energy and hydro-energy; wind energy is a dependable source of energy although it remains the least used among the available renewable sources [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1350

Sustainable Global Energy Options

Most of the developing countries are near the equator and they can therefore be in a position to harness as much as the solar energy as possible.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2093

Trend Analysis: Water Scarcity Issue

This is a worrying aspect for the scarcity of water will lead to greater conflict for water. As agriculture is the sector that uses maximum water resources, with increase in population will face a dual [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 941

Environmental Degradation and Poverty

It is however important to understand the causes of the environmental degradation and the ways to reduce them, which will promote the improvement of the environmental quality.
  • Subjects: Ecological Identity
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1174

Environmental Pollution in Canada

Atlantic Canada is also home to the Island of New Foundland and the northern region of Labrador which are majorly dotted by floating icebergs because of their proximity at the Northern areas of the province.
  • Subjects: Ecological Identity
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2871

Radiation in the Workplace

The number of protons is responsible for the attribution of atomic number while the atomic mass is the total of the neutrons and protons.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2564

Public Awareness of Climate Changes and Carbon Footprints

For example, it can promote public interaction and "conduct public discourses on global climate change" and raise peoples' interests to such issues as the influence of a greenhouse effect and carbon in the air on [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 527

Safety of Recycled Water for Drinking

The question of whether recycled water is safe for drinking is of high relevance to a discussion on water-borne diseases because raw waste water contains high amounts of faecal matter, so it takes a rigorous [...]
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  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1331

Moral Obligations in Environment

Synergy between the four components of the environment is crucial to the stability of the environment. In this regard, the lack of moral obligation in human beings when interacting with land amounts to a violation [...]
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  • Subjects: Ecosystem
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1099

Bhopal, India: The Impact of the Catastrophe

The disaster took place on December, 1984, when a toxic cloud of chemicals in one of the Union Carbide Corporation's plants was introduced into the atmosphere.
  • Subjects: Disasters
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 575

Ethanol as an Alternative Energy Source

The fuel has the backing of some of the influential figures in the automobile industry. Ethanol has the capacity to absorb water in the engine such that one eliminates the need for addition of such [...]
  • Subjects: Ecological Identity
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1364

Marginal Concepts: Advanced Modes of Resource Utilization

The environment has to be protected not only for the purpose of the current generation, but also for the benefit of future generations. It is important to note that oil is one of the most [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1622

The Blackfeet Reservation Possesses Valuable Resources

Economists in the region explain that the fracking process is very economical to the tribe compared to other methods but it is alleged that this will only be in the short run as the dangers [...]
  • Subjects: Ecological Identity
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 627

The Ways of Greenhouse Gases Reducing

Among the developed nations, the United States and China lead in emission of the greenhouse gases and hence frequently suffer from the effect of the same.
  • Subjects: Global Warming
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 844

The Nuclear Weapons Tests on the Marshall Islands

The inhabitants of Marshall Islands were deprived of their land by the nuclear tests conducted by the US. The nuclear testing program led to the contamination of some of the land owned by the Marshallese [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1102

Expanding Oil Refinery: Environmental and Health Effects

Thus, this analytical treatise attempts to explicitly discuss the environmental and health consequences of locating the proposed oil refinery near the human settlement of Utah. Therefore, refinery of oil and production of gases is expected [...]
  • Subjects: Ecological Identity
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1928