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Urban Problems: Enlargement of Urban Areas

In particular, I will focus on discussing the associated issues of global warming, the acuteness of the related health-problems and the process of urban communities growing increasingly secluded, in the social sense of this word.
  • Subjects: Environmental Processes
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 924

The Incident of the Prince William Sound in Alaska

This paper discusses particular sections of the applicable OSHA regulations that Exxon Corporation neglected, the hazards the workforce of this company encountered because of the failure to comply with OSHA regulations, and the recommended corrective [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1724

Summary of concepts/ideas by Christine Matheson

The author calls for consumers and producers to appreciate the importance of recycling in lowering the rate of environmental pollution. Additionally, the author is of the opinion that limiting the high rate of environmental pollution, [...]
  • Subjects: Climate Change
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 596

Air Pollution Effects on the Health in China

The justification of the study is premised on the fact that China is one of the world's largest coal producers and consumers, hence the need to evaluate the health implications of coal pollution on the [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 568

Energy efficient team project

The sole purpose of this paper is to promote awareness on the effects of the use of inefficient sources of energy and inappropriate consumption of energy on social development, the economy and the surrounding at [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1424

Disaster of Columbia shuttle

This is one of the reasons they rejected the request to take photographs of the shuttle in order to estimate the impact of the foam on the shuttle.
  • Subjects: Disasters
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 548

Clean Energy Technologies

In addition, the essay discusses the US position in the development of clean energy and the impact of this technology on the US economy.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 872

Pricing Gouging: Is it Justifiable?

Particular focus of the research paper will be dedicated to introspection of the perception of the business owners on the purpose for existence of their businesses especially on aspects of profit making endeavors showing how [...]
  • Subjects: Disasters
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2228

Effect of Oil Spills on Seafood

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the effects of oil spills on seafood. In particular, oil deposits on the seafloor changes the composition of the soil and the ecosystem in the deep sea.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 1526

Impact of Full Moon Party on Environment

The disreputable occasion in Thailand that attracts millions of tourists around the globe is known as the Full Moon Party. According to Uysal and Williams, the full moon party has shocking and direct effects on [...]
  • Subjects: Air Pollution
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 913

Global Warming: Fact or Fiction

According to, global warming is the average persistent increase in the atmospheric temperature near the earth's surface leading to changes in global climate patterns over a given period of time.
  • Subjects: Global Warming
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 830

Environmental Protection of the American Forests

Two approaches to the issue of environmental protection of forests will be examined in the following paper, the approach described in the article "The American Forests" by John Muir and in the article "Save the [...]
  • Subjects: Ecological Identity
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1141

Saving the Forest and Climate Changes

The greenhouse gases from such emissions play a key role in the depletion of the most essential ozone layer, thereby increasing the solar heating effect on the adjacent Earth's surface as well as the rate [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 868

Atmospheric Optical Phenomena

The red light waves are usually the longest in the visible spectrum of the electromagnetic energy and they are also the slowest in motion.
  • Subjects: Ecological Identity
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1844

Ecology versus Technology

On the magnitude of influence, technology has affected ecology in positive and negative ways. Since ecological sustainability is largely influenced by behavior change, the impacts are simple and easily adoptable irrespective of cultural systems existing [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Processes
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 852

Problems Caused by China’s Three Gorges Dam

The purpose of this study is to offer an objective exploration of the environmental, socioeconomic, health, archeological and geological problems resulting from the construction of The Three Gorges Dam across The Yangtze River as well [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Processes
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2402

Pesticide Usage and Water Scarcity

Water management is a tool for every person to reduce the water shortage. Increase in water price is likely to reduce the consumption as this reduces water wastage.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 581

Environmental Impact From Meat Based Diets

The Water Education Foundation estimates that in order to produce a single pound of beef in the state of California, we require about 2,464 gallons of water.
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1409

Policies to Reduce Emissions

This would work out if the cost of avoiding emissions would be less than the cost of paying the tax associated with the emissions.
  • Subjects: Environmental Processes
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 856

Contribution of Education in Carbon Emissions

Forests eliminate and amass carbon dioxide from the air, and deforestation causes vast amounts of carbon discharge, in addition to, decreasing the quantity of carbon capture on the globe.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2696

Global Warming: Consequences and Effects

As a result of man's increased activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, global temperatures are increasing rapidly, with severe consequences to climate patterns, the wildlife, flora and fauna, and the health of mankind [...]
  • Subjects: Global Warming
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1373

Earth’s Global Energy Budget

It is appropriate to inspect the ocean and land spheres independently so as to take advantage of the limitations that arises with them and particularly to the capability of the land and ocean to store [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1621

Eco-Defense and Kinds of Ecological Terrorism

Two basic practices of tree spiking exist; spiking the tree at the bottom of the tree trunk, and spiking the tree way above the trunk, as high as one can reach.
  • Subjects: Ecological Identity
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1204

E-Waste Disposal in US

E-waste disposal is destroying the environment in various ways depending on the type of the electronic disposed and the method of disposal.
  • Subjects: Recycling
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1373

Nuclear Power Advantages and Disadvantages

The claim is thought to include cost of installations and time taken to construct the nuclear plants. In this case, they fail to note that the cost of electricity from nuclear energy is cheaper than [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1163

Air Pollution and Its Consequences

Air pollution refers to the infusion of chemicals, particles and biological matter that are hazardous and are the cause of discomfort to humanity and other living organisms into the atmosphere.
  • Subjects: Air Pollution
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 740

History of the Production Processes

This ensured that the goods that have been produced are of the right quality and quantity in order to meet the requirements of the consumers.
  • Subjects: Recycling
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 633

Mitigation Plan for Energy Resources

My mitigation plan for ensuring sustainability of energy resources will primarily involve efforts to resolve the overexploitation of non-renewable energy resources, and enhance the adoption of clean renewable energy.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1911

Energy Use and Conservation

Due to the changes in the sourcing of energy I decided to make use of solar heating especially in showering and cooling my house.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 570

The Problem of Atmospheric Pollution in Modern World

It speeds up the erosion of construction materials and the decomposition of metals which destructs the human respiratory system by introducing poisonous materials into the system. Afterwards, the use of vents and the burning of [...]
  • Subjects: Air Pollution
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2114

Green Cities: Environmental Urbanism

Nevertheless, based on a keen analysis of the works of these authors, there stand some loopholes, as they do not give a detailed procedure of the steps to follow in order to realize the dream [...]
  • Subjects: Ecological Identity
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1193

Environment, Disease and Crime in Egypt

Similarly, the prevalence of diverse diseases in Egypt limits the citizens' ability to attain sound health. Water erosion also occurring in the Northern regions of Egypt causes unprecedented degradations to land.
  • Subjects: Environmental Management
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1365

Mining Disaster in Chile on 5th of August 2010

Face to face delivery of the message is the best for the family members and relatives because of the amount of humanely touch it can have on the recipient of the information.
  • Subjects: Disasters
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1207

Impact of Environmental Issues and Laws in the Aviation Industry

Limited growth Although the industry appreciates, the efforts of environmental movements like Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, and Friends of the Earth, the industry feel that the requirements of the set policies limit its [...]
  • Subjects: Ecological Identity
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 817

Effecting on Indoor Air Quality

There are various sources of pollutants that are associated with Indoor Air Pollution: Combustion sources e.g.oil, gas, kerosene, coal, wood and tobacco products; building materials and furnishings, asbestos-containing insulation, wet or damp carpet; products for [...]
  • Subjects: Air Pollution
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 547

The BP & Deep Horizon Event in the Gulf of Mexico

With the experience BP had on such projects and its success in exploitation of renewable energy sources, the company did not put into place the right measures in order to take care of any disaster [...]
  • Subjects: Ecosystem
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 632

The Dilemma Surrounding Recycling

One of the arguments used by recycling supporters is that the government takes full responsibility of the funding of recycling activities."Government supports lots of services that the free market would not provide, such as the [...]
  • Subjects: Recycling
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2998

Policy Paper on Oil Conservation

Having in mind that the demand for energy will continue growing; to help propel the growth of the economy there is need to come up with steps that will help conserve oil.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1095

Journal Entries on Environmental Studies

Picture 2: Some of the animal species I encountered in the park. I was interested to examine biodiversity of animal and plant species in the terrestrial, coastal and marine ecosystems within Asir national park.
  • Subjects: Ecosystem
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1440

The Problem of Environmental Degradation in Modern World

Environmental degradation is on the increase, and it is likely to affect the human race in the future. Reduce it, is the first strategy for reducing waste disposal, and it is the most important of [...]
  • Subjects: Recycling
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 608

Environmental and Animal Ethics

The writer argues that to some point, the environment should be treated in the same way human beings are treated meaning that companies polluting the environment with emissions should understand that the environment feels the [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 535

Air Pollution by Automobiles

This paper shall address specific automobile pollutants in relation to causes and public health, to draft possible recommendations to the obstacles, in order to manage the problem.
  • Subjects: Air Pollution
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2670

Climate and Tree Rings [FREE Text Sample!]

The base line in determining climatic changes by using tree rings is by correlating the outer rings spacing of a tree and the National Weather Service records.
  • Subjects: Climate Change
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 581

Climate Change Definition and Causes

The human population is expected to play a major role in the reduction of emissions by 2050, thereby redressing climatic change.
  • Subjects: Climate Change
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 608

The Fundamentals of Energy Efficiency

The principles governing energy saving are to promote minimum usage of energy with an aim of saving energy and encouraging the use of renewable forms of energy.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 617

Global Warming: “An Inconvenient Truth”

The main effect of increased carbon dioxide emission in the atmosphere is the high ice melting on different mountains. The recent occurrence of Hurricanes, tornados and typhoons is due to high temperatures in the oceans [...]
  • Subjects: Climate Change
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 680

Climate Change: Nearing a Mini Ice Age

The causes of climate changes are varied; first, the cyclical variations of the orbital processes control the solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth causing varying climatic conditions.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1498

Green Buildings Impact on the Environment

The most outstanding benefit of green buildings is the reduction in wastes and this is something that other developments have not taken care of.
  • Subjects: Recycling
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2040

Green Buildings and Indoor Air Quality

The idea of "green buildings" has in many ways helped enhance indoor air quality."Green buildings" are made possible by designing and constructing buildings which have high quality of indoor air as one of their major [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Processes
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1927

Industrial Revolution: Sea-Level Rise

However, it is impossible to underestimate the impact of people on the processes related to climate change and, therefore, sea-level rise.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1277

Suppression of Alternative Energy

However, the US Department of Energy officials continue to say that this technology is unfeasible; according to them the very idea of cold fusion has no scientific value.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 556

The Natural Resources of the African Community

According to a research done by Mwingi Godfrey on the conservation of water in South Africa, the following is important to ensure a sustainable use; Pressure management, this will control the chances of pipe bursts [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 728

Effects of BP Oil Spill

The environmental effects of the BP oil spill adversely affected the gulf region and the efforts to remedy the situation are likely to impact on the overall US economy Tons of species of creatures were [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1845

Solar growth in USA

Growth of solar will be expected to contribute about 8% of USA's energy by the year 2020; solar energy has seen growth from 785MW in the year 2002 to current capacity of 1.4 GW.
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 582

Winter Ecology: A Look Under the Ice

For aquatic animals and plants, ice acts serves as a cover for aquatic ecosystem reducing the amount of energy, nutrients, and oxygen in the world of low temperatures.
  • Subjects: Ecosystem
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 814

Air and Water Pollution in Los Angeles

One of the major problems facing major cities and towns in the world is pollution; wastes from firms and households are the major causes of pollution.
  • Subjects: Air Pollution
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1150

Efficiency in the Motor Vehicle Industry

This is one of the main aspects of environmental conservation in the motor vehicle industry. This is due to the tremendous increase in the number of vehicles.
  • Subjects: Air Pollution
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1637

The Great San Francisco Earthquake

The length however depends on the size of the wave since the larger the wave the larger the area affected and consequently the longer the period of time taken.
  • Subjects: Disasters
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 1323

New Techniques for Harnessing Solar Energy

Due to the scarcity of fossil fuels and the expenses incurred in the mining of fossil fuels, it is important that we find a new source of energy to fulfill the energy needs of the [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 816

Environmental Science: Biology

The rate of consumption of their consumption is also seen to be relatively high as compared to the consumption of renewable resources.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 812

Water Pollution Causes and Climate Impacts

The biggest percentage of sewage waste consists of water, treating the wastes for recycling would help in maintaining a constant supply of water.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1326

Recycling’s Management and Potential

Throughout the process of ten weeks various types of plastic materials had been collected and stored so that when we resell these items after ten long weeks, we are able to easily tell the difference [...]
  • Subjects: Recycling
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1315

914th Airlift Wing – AFRC Superfund Site

The biggest problem noted with the 914th Airlift Wing AFRC supersite is the obvious abandonment of the environment by the locals and relevant authorities.
  • Subjects: Air Pollution
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 888

Global Warming Outcomes and Sea-Level Changes

The outcome of global warming has been exhibited by the melting of ice and snows in areas such as the Antarctic which has changed the average sea level of the whole world because the ice [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Processes
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 918

Geography of Bagamoyo, Tanzania

It was the novel headquarters of German East Africa and was among the mainly important business ports by the side of the East African coast during the colonial period.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1406

The Climatic Condition of San Francisco and Key West

The climatic conditions are arrived at as a result of several factors such as nearness to large water bodies, latitudinal factors, the altitude patterns, human activities, the relief, and distance from the equator, direction of [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1240

Global Warming Exploration and Its Facts

Despite the controversy that surrounds the causes of global warming, human beings are slowly beginning to appreciate the fact that much of the heating up of the earth's surface is attributable to their activities.
  • Subjects: Global Warming
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1365

Efforts to Alleviate Ozone Depletion

Depletion of ozone layer is the slow eradication of the ozone layer caused by the gases that are emitted into the atmosphere.
  • Subjects: Air Pollution
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 940

The red sludge ecological disaster

He further referred to the sludge flood as an ecological catastrophe thereby suspending all the activities of the company and ordering it to repair the broken reservoir.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1086

How Volcanoes Have Impacted the Global Climate

Immediately after a volcano, dust released to the atmosphere causes a cooling effect; the level of cooling depends on the size of dust particles released and the amount.
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 568

Process Analysis on Wildland Fire Fighting

Consequently, this policy dictated agencies to abandon their attempts to put out every wildland fire and sought to reduce the vulnerability of communities and resources to the negative effects of wildland fires.
  • Subjects: Environmental Processes
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1130

Concept of Bioregionalism in Environmental Ecosystems

Bioregionalism is the phenomenon of understanding the process of environmental ecosystems in a way justifiable to the human cultures. The more industrialization of the weapons of mass destruction, the more would be the production, the [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3365

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Those who still lived in the park, mainly the Cherokee Indians, miners and loggers, were forced out of the park and all the operations which contributed to the destruction of the forest were abolished.
  • Subjects: Air Pollution
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1689

Destruction of the Brazilian Tropical Rain Forest

The Amazon tropical rainforest is the home of thousands of flora and fauna species, which are rare in other forest reserves, because of the favorable environmental conditions of the forest.
  • Subjects: Environmental Processes
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 725

China Climate Change

Majority of developed and developing countries for example, the U.S.and China have failed to heed to the call of the need to save Mother Nature through implementation of pollution mitigating measures, for example, the Kyoto [...]
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  • Subjects: Climate Change
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 887

Climate and Air Pollution

The earth has a number of climatic systems that ensure the distribution of heat across the face of the earth. Global warming is the result of retention of heat by the earth's atmosphere originally from [...]
  • Subjects: Air Pollution
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 593

Do Human Activities Threaten to Change Climate?

According to Milbourn, global warming is the projected and observable increase in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans. It is easier said that human activities do not contribute to global warming than grappling [...]
  • Subjects: Climate Change
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1731

Analyzing arguments within a controversy

He claims that in a head on collision, a SUV is more likely to cause more injury to the driver of the other car and at the same time cause more grievous harm to the [...]
  • Subjects: Disasters
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1118

Urban Pollution – Many Long Years Ago

Tarr also compares pollution caused by automobiles to that caused by horses, putting into consideration the promises that came with automobiles with respect to creating cleaner and safer streets.
  • Subjects: Air Pollution
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 583