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Rain water is naturally acidic and while falling down, the rain dissolves the carbon dioxide and water naturally present in the atmosphere to form a weak carbonic acid with a PH of 5.6. Burning of fossil fuels and emissions from vehicles and natural sources results...
Environmental Ethics
Environmental Issues
Pollution
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A marine ecosystem is an ecosystem defined by an aquatic environment with higher salinity compared to freshwater ecosystems. These ecosystems are teeming with flora and fauna, providing one of earth’s major food sources. Covering over 70% of the Earth’s surface, marine ecosystems are divided into...
Environmental Issues
Marine Life
Water Pollution
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Acid rain is a kind of a precipitation that include acidic components. Acid rain is caused by mainly due to natural and human activities. When it comes to natural causes volcanoes are responsible for it. But acid rain mainly caused by the human activities like...
Environmental Issues
Pollution
Water Pollution
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Introduction Many human activities, including the burning of fossil fuels, cause pollution. Pollution is the release of harmful substances called pollutants into the environment. The air pollution created when fossil fuels burn does not stay in the air forever. Instead, it can travel great distances,...
Environmental Issues
Pollution
Water Pollution
967 words | 2 Pages
Have you ever worried about dying from nuclear energy? Nuclear power is when nuclear energy is used to generate heat or electricity. Nuclear energy has been an extremely controversial topic, as to if and when it should be used. The government has been making drastic...
Global Warming
Nuclear Power
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During normal rain pollutants are cleane . If rain fall continues rainwater clean the air from pollutants. Sulphat , ammonium and nitrate can be reduced by normal rain up to 30 to 73%. While the gases i.e. sulphur dioxide, Ammonia, Chlorine and NO2 can be...
Acid Rain
Pollution
Water Pollution
1766 words | 4 Pages
Acid rain is the environmental issue that can occurs negative impact towards human, animals, surrounding or even non-living things like property. The clean rain has a pH value between 5.0 and 5.5. Nevertheless, the pH of rain can become more acidic up to 4.0 if...
Acid Rain
China
Pollution
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Introduction Acid rain, or acid deposition is rain water with elevated levels of hydrogen (H+) ions. Acid rain refers to the ways in which acid moves from the atmosphere to the earth’s surface. It is transboundary and involves the falling of sulfuric or nitric acid....
Acid Rain
Pollution
Water Pollution
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Anthropogenic noise is one of the least understood and most common threats to National Parks. Energy development, infrastructure expansion, and urbanization create a noise footprint that fragments the acoustical landscape and restricts the natural quiet to brief intervals in most protected natural areas. A group...
Environmental Issues
National Parks
Yosemite National Park
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Humans are the root of many of the Earth’s recent health declines and instead of being focused on how to solve these issues, government officials are more focused on why their countries are no longer first world power. Rather than focusing on why they are...
Environmental Issues
Global Warming
Whaling
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Whaling is the term used to describe the act of killing whales to use for meat, oil, bones, and any other by products that they may provide. Whaling has been around for a long period of time. The meat was used to feed people, the...
Extinction
Killer Whales
Whaling
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The relationship between human practices and the effects on the environment is and always has been cyclical in nature. This relationship can be traced back to individual values and how these values affect choices made on a personal level as well as an interpersonal level....
Environmental Issues
Natural Environment
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“Community monitoring and citizen science monitors are more effective than experimental ecology at detecting environmental degradation” Currently, a number of detrimental human-induced factors such as mining, desertification, deforestation, air and water pollution are accelerating environmental degradation which is cause for global concern (Freeman, 2015). Human...
Environmental Issues
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In many severe problems in earth environment pollution is one of the most alarming issues. It refers to contamination of our surroundings. Among most common 4 types of pollution, air pollution is increasing in alarming rate. As world progressing, the city is modernizing more and...
Air Pollution
Environmental Issues
Pollution
662 words | 1 Page
An economy is a region of the assembly, distribution, and trade, similarly to the consumption of products and services by completely different agents. Understood in its broadest sense, ‘The economy is outlined as a social domain that emphasize the practices, discourses, and material expressions related...
Economy
Environmental Issues
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High variability of climate has seen over Central India such as very hot summer, very cold winter and intense monsoon. However, summer monsoon is important for the agriculture of central India and its agriculture is always affected by drought because MP receives most of precipitation...
Climate Change
Drought
1379 words | 3 Pages
Global warming has been an issue that has been debated on and off many times. Some people believe that it is a man-made problem, while others believe there is not enough evidence to support it. It is an issue that is not always consistently being...
Ecology
Global Warming
Interest Groups
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Introduction This journal will indicate the ethical issues related with Adani’s Carmichael Coal Mine, including environmental issues involving to sustainability, human rights violations such as exploitation of workers, and corporate social responsibility such as consideration for people and the environment in Australia. It will identify...
Environmental Issues
Journal
Work Ethic
1368 words | 3 Pages
Introduction Climate change is a controversial issue which is discussed by people globally. Greenhouse gases continue to rise, which leads to global warming causing long-lasting changes to our climate system. Indeed, most of the countries in the world are experiencing firsthand the drastic effect of...
Climate Change
Environmental Issues
Red Cross