Introduction Attention Getter: This year, on January 1st, the ban on plastic straws in restaurants and other service businesses began. The anti-straw movement started after a video of a turtle with straws stuck in its nostrils went viral on social media. Background: However, plastic straws are a tiny percent of the plastic waste left in the ocean. Globally 8 million...
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Have you ever littered on the beach and thought about the negative impacts it will cause? A majority of humans do not think about the lives of others who are non-human-like sea creatures, whales, organisms, and fundamentally marine animals. We as humans do what is best for us and our kind and tend to see the ocean as a bin....
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Since mankind existed, humans have taken advantage of many landscapes such as the ocean, killing animals and resources produced for survival. Humans have made the costly mistake of taking the earth for granted as they believe the earth also needs humans. Humans are altering Earth’s natural landscapes so radically that as many plant and animal species are now at risk...
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Imagine touring the DC monuments and being in awe of their beauty. Suddenly, you look and see the filthy and disgusting water of the Potomac River, ruining your beautiful image of Washington, DC. The Potomac River is not safe to swim in because of the pollution from overflowing sewage and runoff that occurs due to rain. This problem has an...
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Maathai is locally and worldwide renowned as a conservation environmentalist and crusader for gender and social justice. A woman of many firsts, amongst them, the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in East and Central Africa (1971) and to head the Veterinary Anatomy Department, at one of Kenya’s oldest and most prestigious Universities - the University of Nairobi (UON) in...
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He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season and its leaf does not wither; And in whatever he does he prospers. (Psalm 1:3) Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth. (Chronicles 16:33). When you make something...
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Why Deforestation Needs Further Reformation As humans have evolved mechanically, their dependency on trees’ utility has evolved in a parallel manner. While at first, deforestation was simply cutting down a few trees here and there to build small settlements, it has now become a global practice and has grown to a massive scale that is endangering the entire planet. Over...
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The commercial production of palm oil in Malaysia has increased by over 5 million hectares of crop since 1960. This rapid expansion of the crop has lead to the destruction of the tropical rainforest in both peninsular Malaysia (West Malaysia) and Borneo Malaysia. Due to this excessive deforestation, the European Commission concluded that palm oil would stop being imported for...
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“80% of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation” -- Heather Mill an activist from England. One of the most discussed topics today is global warming, thanks to activists such as Greta Thunberg, a sixteen year old Swedish girl who recently spoke at the UN, and although deforestation is one of the leading causes of global warming we rarely discuss...
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“Forests are the world’s air-conditioning system - the lungs of the planet - and we are the verge of switching it off.” - Prince Charles (“Explore 100 Famous Scientist Quotes Pages”). This quote explains that humans are about to lose most of the trees which are necessary for the existence of life on earth. In addition, deforestation refers to the...
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Agriculture aims to supply food to our growing populations. In order to grow a lot of food, farmers need a lot of land. Recently, Time magazine reported that farmers in Brazil are burning areas of the Amazon forest in order to make room to grow soy. This is a typical story of deforestation, the removal of vast amount of rain...
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Overview Cambodia’s economy has been virtually destroyed as a result of the Civil War (1970-1975), the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979), and the Cambodia-Vietnam war (1978-1979). Despite rice being Cambodia’s most important crop and a staple food for the Khmer, by 1974, under wartime conditions, rice had to be imported to be consumed and the production of rubber, Cambodia’s most profitable...
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“Forests are the world’s air-conditioning system – the lungs of the planet – and we are on the verge of switching it off». -- PRINCE CHARLES. Speaking at the Presidential Palace, Jakarta, Indonesia (3 Nov 2008) Nobody can deny the fact that continual deforestation is a driving force behind such environmental issues as global warming, desertification and enhanced greenhouse effect....
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The amazon region is basically known by its continuous tropical forest and water basin extending in most regions of the South American continent. Currently, human activities involve cutting the primary forest together with the biomass release, interregional diversity, institutional and social drivers are contributing to adverse effects to Amazon climate change. During the 2009 conference that discussed climate change, Brazil...
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Gwanyama Gracelyne Stephen Van Dyck English 145 24TH April, 2019 Have Humans Changed the Planet for Better or Worse Growing up in Africa, a developing country where many resources such as land have not yet been exploited, and comparing it to where I am today in the United States of America, a developed country, I can greatly compare and appreciate...
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Plastic once considered a modern triumph, has evolved into an unprecedented environmental predicament: plastic pollution. This pervasive issue extends its reach from the remotest corners of our oceans to the bustling heart of urban landscapes. Its consequences reverberate across ecosystems, impacting marine life, human health, and the delicate balance of our planet. As our reliance on plastic soars, so does...
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The first World Climate Conference was held from February 12th to 23rd in 1979 in Geneva. It was one of the first international meetings on climate change. NASA states, since the late nineteenth century, carbon dioxide and human-made emissions were, and still are being released into the atmosphere which has taken a toll on the planet’s surface temperature. Temperatures have...
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Water, the elixir of life, is an indispensable resource for all life forms on Earth. Our dependence on this invaluable resource is so profound that even a slight imbalance in its composition can have far-reaching implications. Unfortunately, this balance is being threatened by a looming crisis: water pollution. The United States, one of the world's most industrialized nations, is grappling...
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Intro In order for me to be able to build and sustain a colony on Mars I will need to find out the following things about Mars: Firstly I will need to find out what we have on Earth that helps us survive, Secondly I will need to find out what Mars doesn’t have that Earth does so that we...
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Introduction Water pollution is the act of making water unsafe for living organisms living in these ecosystems. Ocean pollution occurs when dangerous substances like chemicals or microorganisms are subjected to oceans, rivers, and other water bodies hence affecting the quality of water and organisms within the environment. Water is always prone to affluence because they are considered a universal solvent....
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Offshore drilling may be one of the most effective ways we get the oil that fuels our cars, airplanes, and boats. The first oil rig was built in 1938 in about fourteen feet of water. As technology progressed, it was made easier to move further away from shore to pursue undiscovered oil reserves. Although oil is a necessity today, I...
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Biology Presidential Speech For years, the government has opted to not worry about environmental conditions affecting our planet and our country. With time, the planet has been deteriorating due to human impact. If we continue to ignore what is going on with our planet, generations ahead of ours will experience a world much different than ours. Something has to be...
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The Earth, where we live, has its own stable ecosystem. Not only live human beings here, but also other species like animals and plants. A balanced environment is vital for the sustainability of our planet. However, there have been a lot of species under threat of extinction nowadays. Do you know how many species are facing an extremely high risk...
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What are the impacts of deforestation on a sustainable future? Deforestation is the process of removing trees and forests from a landscape. This may be done for many reasons including making space for other land uses such as to harvest for wood resources or for agriculture. Although it might not be something that we see or hear about every day,...
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What is the greenhouse effect and what are the main greenhouse gases? A greenhouse effect is the heating phenomenon of the Earth and its environment due to sunlight incident radiation energy captured by greenhouse gases especially water vapors and carbon dioxide. This process occurs naturally, it happens whenever an incident striking shortwaves attains the gaseous layer surrounding the Earth, one...
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Abstract This case study aims to analyze Dell’s contribution towards addressing the crisis of ocean plastics which is a major pollutant in ocean bodies. Dell which is a privately owned company and a major technological service and products provider, started the Ocean Plastics Initiative after the challenge facing many oceans was brought to the attention of the company. This is...
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Oceans are large expanses of water that expand across more of the Earth’s surface than land. In recent decades, a surplus of harmful human activities has adversely affected marine ecosystems by increasing ocean pollution. Ocean pollution is the spread of harmful toxins and debris throughout ocean waters, which negatively affects surrounding ecosystems. Increasing ocean pollution influences the formation of dead...
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Ocean pollution is a big concern in the world because studies are showing it is only increasing over the years (Christensen, 2019). A new study shows that along one stretch of the Pacific Ocean just between Hawaii and California there are around 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic waste gathered, which is a rapid increase since the 1970s (Barron, 2018). The...
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Our ocean covers more than 70 percent of our planet and it is essential to life here on earth. They are home to everything from the biggest blue whales to the smallest microscopic algae and despite their importance to our survival, we are bombarding them with over 8 million tonnes of plastic every year. From dangerous carbon emissions to plastic...
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Introduction The term air pollution is referred to the interference of unwanted substances such as chemicals, particulate or biological materials which possess a threat (discomfort, severe diseases, death, and serious damage) to both living (man, animals, and plants) and non-living (water, soil, and air) things into the atmosphere via natural or anthropogenic (man-made) actions (Mahendra and Vaibhav 2013). These unwanted...
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