Visualizing water conducting system of woody plants is a critical parameter for estimating water alteration (Wullschleger et al. 2001, Kumagai et al. 2005), and anatomical changes caused by implications promoting seedling growth into the reforestation ecosystems. The xylem, which is the main part of the...
In recent years, the local food movement has gained a lot of attention for its effort at promoting sustainability from direct-to-consumer sales. Through processing, distribution and consumption, any regional food networks goal is to reduce the ecological footprint left by industrial farming practices, while supporting...
CO2 and other toxic gases are being released into the air in large quantities from factories, manufacturing firms, transportation vehicles, and burning of fossil fuels by the residents themselves. As the country began to industrialize, many people from rural areas come to urban center mainly...
Introduction Every day planners have to face these so called “Wicked Problems”. These problems are problems that are very difficult to solve due to constantly changing variables. In a planning context the problems could be anything from land use to community engagement, the list is...
How is technology not helping us to improve environmental issues? Over the last years technology has been through an extreme evolution, each day we introduce new technologies and engines to our world, thanks to industrialization and urbanization, and until today human race has enjoyed every...
Our earth used to be a lush and beautiful place, full of vibrant vegetation and unkindled species varying in size and home, yet due to human existence we have become an indistinguishable parasite further plaguing the planet for our own needs to survive generation after...
Introduction Cape Town, home to approximately 4 million people, listed as the 10th most populous city in South Africa. Cape Town is a coastal city located in the South West region of South Africa, a coordinate of approximately 33.9249°S, 18.4241 The water crisis began in...
Land degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa remains a substantial problem in aggravating poverty, by reducing the availability of environmental goods and services to poor rural households and by increasing the labor time needed to seek for such goods. Inline of this, highlighted that forest degradation spurs...
Throughout history, poverty has been a challenging issue and to this date, it is a subject that many people have insufficient evidence about. Despite annual income, employment status, or overall success level, there will always be individuals who have no shelter, clothing, or food to...
Recreational angling, otherwise called sports angling involves angling exercises occupied with the end goal of delight or rivalry, instead of to make benefit for day by day survival. It is a movement which considers the duplication of significant worth per angle really reaped. Recreational angling...
Earthquake faults are way more complex than you could have thought. There have been a lot of trial and error geologists have gone through to figure out these natural occurrences and they haven’t even figured out most of their nature hood. So, what do geologists...
Abstract This study was designed to find out heavy metals contents from water samples that taken from tube wells and from different areas of district pishin. The analysis of different water samples done to check out the parameters such as electric conductivity, PH, burden of...
The role that professional planners have in planning a city is critical when considering how to adapt to climate change. In the planning profession, there are many perspectives of planning. Planning for current and future problems is an essential task when designing a city. One...
Do you view animals as living beings that experience suffering, pain, and happiness just as we do, or do you view them as a food source, something we can control at our own will? I imagine that most, if not all, of you grew up...
The issue being discussed is desertification. This is a very big problems in some parts of the world, for example Africa, the Middle East, South America and more. This is an issue that mainly comes from climate change, deforestation and droughts. The reason why desertification...
Fecal contamination of water is often determined by the amount of Escherichia coli (E. coli) cells present within a water sample. In this study E. coli was used as the indicator bacteria. Water samples from five different lakes, each with 0, 1, or 2 beach...
In the early 1990s the ‘environmental agenda’ bug bit the entire globe -from the western world, trickling down to the rest of the global society. At first, getting the attention of those in authority to believe this ‘concept’ and to start considering ways to mitigate...
Philosophy is the study of many problems such as knowledge, existence, and values in one’s life. Philosophy doesn’t necessarily ever have a right answer but another way to look at something such as what is the value of life. I have always loved philosophy because...
Invasive plant species are the second threat to global biodiversity loss next to land-use changes. Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) D.C. (Fabaceae) (Henceforth referred to as Prosopis) is among invasive plant species native to South America, the Caribbean, and Central America. Prosopis has been introduced consciously to...