After independence, India launched a series of economic plans for rapid expansion in agriculture, industry, transport, and other infrastructure with a view to increasing production and employment, reducing poverty and inequality of incomes, and establishing a socialist society based on equality and justice. But because of poor planning and in many cases mindless and ruthless exploitation of natural resources, we have degraded our physical environment. Environmental problems have become serious in many parts of the country and can no longer...
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About 50,000 earthquakes are big enough, to occur around the world naturally. Of these, around 100 are big enough to inflict serious harm if their centers are located close to housing areas. Averagely, some very large earthquakes occur once a year. Over the years, it caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and an untold amount of economic loss. Earthquakes have numerous impacts such as seismic changes, damage to buildings created by human beings, and effects on humans and animals. Much...
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Fire is a natural process in rangelands and its ecological effects and interactions with abiotic and biotic components of an ecosystem impact its function. Many rangelands have evolved with fire as a fundamental contributor to habitat vitality and renewal. In fire-affected ecosystems, many plant species need a fire to germinate, grow, or reproduce. The elimination of wildfires does not only kill these plants but also the animals that rely on them. Fire has vital beneficial effects on the flora and...
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First of all, let’s start with some information about the sun: the sun is the closest star to Earth it is 149 600 000 km from our planet. The sun is about 1 300 000 times bigger than the Earth, which means that it produces a lot of thermal energy. However, only a very small part of this energy is converted into electricity – less than 1 percent. The light and heat provided by the sun are converted into electricity...
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Introduction ‘Humans and other species’ is the topic that I personally chose for my Global Perspectives individual research essay. While for my sub-topic, I have specifically chosen ‘Animal Rights’. The reason is that this is a common issue that is happening in this world. All of us know that every human being is entitled to their own individual rights, which gives them the ability to defend themselves if someone attempts to take them away from them. This should also be...
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Niagara Falls is a famous tourist sight located on the border of Canada and the United States. The absolute location of Niagara Falls is 43.0896° N, 79.0849° W. Part of Niagara Falls belongs to Canada, and the other belongs to the United States. Due to the nature of the city, the population is divided into two parts. The Ontario part of Niagara Falls has a population of around 88 thousand, and the New York part of Niagara Falls has a...
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In this essay I will start by outlining the social, cultural, and philosophical context of the urban park, how these resulted in the emergence of public parks, and additionally how the evolution of the designer’s and user’s attitudes to the public realm in these places shaped their development throughout. I will investigate the theory behind the form of the nineteenth-century urban park, looking specifically at Olmsted’s Central Park and its relationship to the city. Understanding how the philosophical context of...
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“We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.” ― Albert Schweitzer, I have chosen to do the option 1 reading packet which will be addressing animal rights....
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Introduction Sustainability is a way of satisfying our wants without causing the potentiality of the upcoming cohort to satisfy their wants. Besides, natural resources social and economic resources are also required. Sustainability is not all about the surrounding. It might also mean social equity and economic growth. When people and the community at large provide for their individual wants to preserve the resources for their children and their children’s children, they are practicing sustainability. In this regard, a lack of...
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After attending the workshop, I decided on the following topic for my essay: Nuclear Energy Ever since the first industrial revolution, humanity has delved into different ways of power generation. Rapid technology advancements in the past century have indicated an increasing demand for energy reserves and an urge for more effective ways to generate electricity. To date, different methods of power generation have been explored, ranging from coal burning to the use of solar energy. This has soon raised an...
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Introduction In the past few decades, tourism has grown rapidly, as can be seen, in its contribution to employment and economic growth to become a distinguished industry (WTTC, 2017). The travel industry develop into the fastest, enormous, and most sustainable growing economic district in the world (Butler, 1999; Weaver, 2006; UNWTO, 2018). Currently, it has 292 million employed people worldwide, accounting for one out of ten global jobs (WTTC, 2017). The industry come out with 10.2 percent of the world...
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Yakushima Island The Kagoshima Prefecture is home to Yakushima Island, a small sub-tropical paradise in which over 1,900 species of exotic fauna and flora reside. The island inhabits an opaque, thriving rainforest that covers this mountainous land. The island is extremely well preserved, being a natural site, it is able to provide an extremely protective home to all who inhabit it. The island holds much aesthetic and natural importance, it obtains much beauty from the incredible Sugi cedar trees (some...
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The human-environment interplay theme addresses how human beings work mutually and How they work in their surroundings. There are three quintessential areas that the theme elements out; which are how human beings count numbers on their surroundings (dependency), how the Surroundings modifications human beings (adaptation), and how human beings alter the environment (modification), (Sen Nag, 2017) Explaining the essential areas further; dependency explores the methods in which Humans are based on nature for their needs and requirements, for example; timber...
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Coastal erosion is caused by the action and impacts of wind and water which is usually caused by the waves and the current. This can either be a rapid onset or slow onset. Rapid onsets will usually happen over a period of days or weeks, an example of this is the 12 Apostles along The Great Ocean Road, it has been just over a millennia (100 decades) and 4 of the Apostles have collapsed and fallen into the water. Slow...
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Deforestation is the act of cutting down and clearing forests to meet the wants and needs of people and clearing can be done by accident or deliberate action for housing, agricultural, and industrial use according to, Conserve Energy Future,(CEF) in its article “Deforestation: Compromises of a Growing World”(CEF). One of the many reasons for deforestation is agriculture with the need for food for growing populations and space for cattle grazing(CEF). For industrial use forests are cleared for logging to produce...
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A tropical cyclone is a rotating weather system with a middle lower than 1000hPa, this isolated circulation is characterised by powerful winds and its unique make-up of thunderstorms which cause heavy rain. Storms are named differently according to geographical location (typhoon, hurricane, tropical cyclone), but all consist of the same properties, with only the direction of rotation a movement differing between hemispheres. Continuing along the lines of geographical naming, the official name 'tropical cyclone' is derived from its formation in...
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The Andes or Andean Mountains are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The Andes also has the 2nd most elevated highest peak of any mountain range, only behind the Himalayas. The range’s elevation throughout the mountains is an average of about 4,000 m. The Andes mountain range was formed over 45 million years ago. They were formed by tectonic activity whereby the Earth is uplifted as one...
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The remains of Jill Scott, a 7-year-old girl, were found last week by the tree line of a farm in Texas. She had been dismembered and partially devoured. Jill Scott was the victim of feral hogs that had invaded the west and southwest. Invasive species such as the Burmese Python, European Starling, Lionfish, and Feral Hogs, have become a major environmental threat over the past few years. They have continued to harm our ecosystems and environments, and in some cases,...
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On the 20th of August last year, a young schoolgirl sat outside Swedish Parliament, with a sign saying “School Strike for Climate”. This girl is Greta Thunberg. She is the new face and identity of climate activism. Thanks to her individual protests, there are now millions marching alongside her. But now that she’s in the global spotlight many are criticising and discrediting her. Those in power continue to deny and ignore her cries. Although, the United Nations has given her...
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Just imagine life without plastic around the world life would be different, most of the objects we use on our daily bases are all made of plastic, and we cannot live without it. But unfortunately, we people in the UAE are throwing plastic waste all over the UAE. Plastic pollution in the UAE is one of the most common toxic materials in the environment. People in deserts while camping use plastic water bottles to drink. After drinking water they have...
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‘’Our house is on fire’’ is the opening line of climate activist Greta Thunberg’s speech at the world economic forum conference this January (The Guardian 2019). Climate change is one of the most urgent and acknowledged challenges the earth and society are facing today. Now that this issue has become a world phenomenon, it is a political issue as well as an environmental problem (Kamarck 2019). Frankel highlights that by observing the GDP, it indicates that globalization has a positive...
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Raising awareness of the impacts of microplastics as well as plastics in the ocean and educating people on what can be done to combat this should be a major part of trying to reduce the concentrations of plastics in the ocean. Using evidence from social sciences and psychological studies, to better understand the risk, social responsibilities, and cause of behaviors in the public and private sectors. Simplifying the complex and uncertain scientific findings into concise and easy-to-understand language that can...
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Abstract: The introduction portion gives a brief explanation of what the Dead Zone is, how it’s caused, what it causes, and offers my hypothesis stating that this problem causes damage to the seafood industry that will worsen if it isn’t addressed. The research method consisted of reading through different scientific case studies found in the Academic Search Database to synthesize a conclusion of my own. The results covered 4 different case studies that focused on the effect of hypoxia in...
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Have you ever looked into the sky at night and seen it so unclear, have you not wondered why the sky doesn't look like the sky from New Hemisphere? Research states that it is due to pollution in the air. Pollution should be considered a threat to the world because it is adverse to the environment, air, and agriculture. Pollution is the introduction of harmful things into the environment. Harming the quality of air, water, and land. A group of...
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Introduction Plastic pollution in the waters has been a massive environmental issue affecting the entire ecosystem. A recent study estimated that a minimum of 5.25 trillion plastic particles are floating within the water bodies, weighing 268,940 tons (Eriksen et al., 2014). Plastic particles are hazardous objects to marine organisms that either become entangled or ingest plastic (Stefatos, Charalampakis, Papatheodorou, & Ferentinos, 1999). Plastics are synthetic polymers that are durable, strong, anti-corrosion, not biodegradable, and cheap. Although plastics can be degraded...
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Our ocean is flooded with two main types of pollution: chemicals and trash. Chemical contamination occurs when human activities, notably the use of fertilizer on farms, lead to the runoff of chemicals into waterways that ultimately flow into the ocean. The increased concentration of chemicals, such as nitrogen and phosphorous, promotes the growth of algal blooms, which can be toxic to wildlife and harmful to humans. Marine trash encompasses all manufactured products (most of them plastic) that end up in...
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Deforestation is the process of removing trees and forests from a landscape. This may be done for many reasons including making way for other land uses such as agriculture and also to harvest for wood resources although it might not be something you see or hear about every day deforestation is a problem that is happening all over the world and has been for many years you might be wondering how does this affect me why should i care well...
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Education being a basic right to many children in Kenya, it has been faced with quite a number of challenges. Since independence, there have been many reforms in the education sector to improve the quality of education. Despite the initiatives, the cost of education in Kenya has restricted both the state supply and local access to education, where both limited government capacity for delivery and local poverty has resulted in failure to sustain universal access to primary education (Umami and...
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Ocean Trash It is sad that marine animals are suffering because of all the trash humans are putting in our oceans. As a matter of fact, endless flows of trash are entering our oceans. This human-made trash is being released into lakes, oceans, and waterways. Trash enters our oceans when humans litter, industrial leakages, and plastics escape into the environment. Approximately 1 million marine animals are killed each year due to plastic bags or other plastic garbage thrown into the...
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Deforestation is a common issue that happens in both Malaysia and other countries which is bad because forests are vital to living beings on Earth and the planet itself. Why are forests important and why should we care about them? Forests are responsible for our air, water and et cetera. Also, many creatures rely on forests as it is their habitat. Plus, forests also offer important natural resources. For example, food, timber, and medicinal plants. Basically, you can say that...
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