We’ve all heard it before, “Reduce waste and cut down on trash.” For most people, this idea is kind of accessorial in life, one that doesn’t need much of their attention, but “why not” if it was easy to do. Can you really blame them...
When it comes to sea food, you’ve probably heard claims that some sea life contains high levels of mercury. So, we try to avoid eating seafood known for this. But what about seafood now containing toxic chemicals that come off of plastic? Are you aware...
Illegal Mining is one of the environmental issues in the Philippines. Historically, mining has been known in the Philippines as early as 1521. It was common belief that before the arrival of foreign invaders, native Filipinos have been panning gold and other mineral deposited in...
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...
Today in the 21st century, one of the most discussed topics now is climate change. Climate change is any significant change in the measures of climate lasting for an extended period of time. In simpler words, climate change includes major changes in temperature, precipitation, or...
Humans seem to love putting themselves first above all else. It already came to a point where selfishness has become one of the things we acquire because this is us and there’s really nothing we can do about it. We tend to always seek for...
As technology advances over the years, there has been an increasing amount of people using products that are more durable and convenient. Around “1,000,000 plastic bottles [are bought by humans] every minute [and] it is estimated that four trillion plastic bags are used worldwide annually”...
Plastic bags, though useful in numerous ways, have attested to be dangerous and unsafe to our environment due to one major factor, that is, they are non-biodegradable, simply meaning they do not decompose easily hence making their disposal a huge challenge. Plastics are mainly used...
Abstract People need energy and related services to ensure social and economic development, and prosperity and to improve health care. In trying to achieve all of these, many environmental negative consequences appear. RES (Renewable Energy Systems) are considered resources that are clean and minimize negative...
The Earth is slowly dying, and one of the reasons why is because of us. We are hurting the planet through our actions. The world’s air quality has been rapidly declining due to air pollution mainly caused by human activities. Air pollution is a mixture...
Over the years, the influx of globalization has led to environmental and social problems. People from third world countries are suffering due to the ideology behind globalization and the actions of capitalist business corporations in the name of creating unification. Their main objective lies in...
There are many issues that the earth faces and two big ones are the effects from littering and deforestation. These specific things affect the world around us and our communities. When people litter, they damage our oceans and when people chop down thousands of trees...
Many people go to different countries. Some of them go for school, others go for business, and some go for living. However, some people adapt well to a new environment and others retain their original culture identity. To discuss the theme of adapting to a...
A large population of the world believes that the consumption of animal products is the healthiest lifestyle. From childhood, humans are taught that eating animal products is healthy while eating foods like grains, legumes, fruits, and vegetables is less important. People become accustomed to needing...
Pollution is the way toward making land, water, air or different pieces of the earth dirty and not sheltered or reasonable to utilize. This should be possible through the presentation of a contaminant into a common habitat, however the contaminant shouldn’t be unmistakable. Things as...
Million years have passed since the creation of our world began, the world population is increasing as the needs of an individual are increasing as well. There are much of changes that had happened the past years. Day after day, the demand is heavily increasing...
The Earth by nature is dynamic, consisting of an array of processes and interactions which are constantly changing. Recently humans have begun to alter the dynamics of these processes. Climate change is one of the biggest threats affecting our world today. We hear about climate...
Introduction The water we have today is the only water we are ever going to have yet through processes such as pollution we are diminishing it and causing problems for our future generations. Through pollution were we letting so many toxic things into our water...
A weather change caused by humans is a long haul ascend in the normal temperature of the world’s atmosphere framework, a part of environmental change that appeared by temperature estimations and by various impacts of warming. The term, for the most part, alludes to the...
WHO air quality model affirms that 90% of the total populace live in places where air quality levels surpass WHO’s Ambient Air quality guidelines. This news is definitely not a surprise to many of us as it has become rather common to look up the...
One of or maybe even the biggest threat to humanity now, but even more in the future, is climate change. Yet, not only we humans are endangered by climate change, but also all other species will have to live with the differences in temperature and...
Littering and pollution is a major issue around the world today. It affects all of our lives, and will affect us for years to come. Littering and pollution play a major part in our lives. Everywhere we walk and drive there is trash on the...
Introduction The issue on environmental protection and the global economy is quite a sensitive, broad one. This section of the paper sets to discuss these issues and also their significance. Environmental protection is the taking care of the environment on individuals, organizations or the government...
Boerger, Christiana M., Gwendolyn L. Lattin, Shelly L. Moore, and Charles J. Moore, “Plastic Ingestion by Planktivorous Fishes in the North Pacific Central Gyre,” Marine pollution bulletin 60, no. 12 (2010): 2275-2278. The history of plastics according to this paper dates back to the mid-1800...
Deforestation is the transformation of woodland areas to non-woodland areas for use such as cultivable land, pastureland, suburban use, logged area, or barren land. Deforestation can also be seen as elimination of forests leading to several variances ecologically and environmentally and results in turn down...
Throughout Earth’s history climate has changed up and down. As of currently the Earth has been heating up a lot more than it did centuries ago. Things are changing so fast. One of the main reasons for this is human activity on Earth since the...
I think that I am in both sides. I feel like I technically am a cause of the environmental problem and an inheritor of the environmental crisis. Because there are so many environmental problems going on and since I live in earth, I get affected...
By considering the environment as an exploitable external element, an organization can generate high profit for some time. China, for instance, is a developing country that has ignored the gravity of the environmental issues that western countries have been attempting to resolve by setting high...
You’re driving through a busy city and you see plastic cups, fast food bags, and all sorts of trash along the streets and sidewalks. This is so common you might not think about the invisible pollution all around you. But this unseen threat is everywhere;...
China, India, and the United States; these are the most populated countries in the world, respectively. What happens if they are ordered as follows: China, the United States and India. The answer—the rank of the top three individual contributors to climate change. These three powerhouses...
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