...1 Atmospheric Pollution and Global Warming: A Real Problem 2 Atmospheric pollution is becoming a bigger and more serious problem as the years go by. What was once thought to be a myth, has now become a threat to species all over the world. The thought of global warming is still laughed at today, but there is enough evidence to prove that it is not a joking matter. In the last one-hundred years, the Earth's temperature has risen by 1.4 degrees farenheit. It is expected to rise by 2 to 11.5 degrees farenheit in the next hundred years (epa, 2014). The weather and the climate has changed as well, and there is proof all around the world. Extreme weather is becoming the norm. There has been a drastic change in rainfall and this has some parts of the world at risk for flooding, or drought. Heatwaves have also become more extreme (epa, 2014). In some places, winters and summers are stretched out, seeming to never end. If the world continues to experience this type of weather, our society and environment will face some major challenges (epa, 2014). Most of these challenges are happening because of human activity. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are emitted into the air every single day. Deforestation, some agricultural practices, and industrial processes are part of the problem, but the burning of fossil fuel is the worst. Fossil fuel is burned as a way to produce energy, and the effects are dangerous. These gases also have an effect on our health...
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...Meteorologist Meteorologists, also known as atmospheric scientists, are experts on the atmosphere, weather, and climate. Meteorologists study the aforementioned categories and how they will affect not only the Earth, but human beings as well. Compiling and collecting data, developing forecasts, and understanding weather patterns are part of a meteorologist’s duties. Furthermore, meteorologists may invent new instruments to collect weather pattern or climate data, while consulting clients on the opportunities and risks associated with climate changes and atmospheric events. If you have an enthusiasm for analyzing data, mathematics, weather patterns, and science, this may be a career area you want to explore further. Why Become A Meteorologist...
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...Around the world, there are various environmental issues occurring in all ecosystems, among them is the concept of pollution. Ocean pollution is very common, about 1.4 billion pounds of trash end up in the ocean every year (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2011). There are also often several oil spills, and these spills and trash are bringing harm upon all marine life (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2011). Research shows that nearly eighty percent of pollution in the ocean comes from land based activities (National Ocean Service, N.D). Humans are the cause pollution, actions should be taken to prevent hurting beautiful ecosystems and the creatures within. Occasionally, people enjoy attending the beach on hot days and they bring their own refreshments and food. But since some do not pick up their trash, it ends up in the ocean polluting the water. The most commonly found element is plastic and it takes a long time for this...
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...National Geographic Society. “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” National Geographic Society, National Geographic, 9 Oct. 2012, www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/. The National Geographic has been known of posting many articles and videos about the concern and awareness of the water pollution of the Pacific Ocean. The article that is chosen is about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the National Geographic has many photo evidence of the harmful effects of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The article puts in perspective of how serious the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is by using quotes from captains that have sailed by the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and statistics of the mass size. The article will be supporting...
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...surface waters in the world. A wide assortment of pollutants sully its waters. They come from factories, sewage treatment plants, agriculture, forestry, and shipping. The Baltic Sea is extremely vulnerable to pollution for other reasons as well. First, its waters tend to stratify Freshwater flowing into the sea from its many tributaries mixes incompletely with the saltwater, forming an upper layer with a slightly lower salt content. The saltier bottom layer is heavier. This stratification tends to reduce exchange between the layers, which results in extremely low oxygen levels in deeper waters. Any factors such as pollution that lower oxygen levels further can have a devastating effect on bottom-dwelling and deep-water sea life. Second, the Baltic's connection with the North Sea is a narrow channel, so it takes about 50 years for the Baltic to exchange all of its water. The long turnover time and stratification result in a dangerous buildup of harmful pollutants. The four issues of greatest concern are (1) oil spills, (2) eutrophication, (3) the bioaccumulation and biomagnsfication of toxic pollution, and (4) accidental discharges...
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... proposed plant, believed to be harmful to the environment and thus affect the health of population. So, we must protest thesetup of factory because the main problem of the construction of this factory is pollution. Beside that many problems result from the construction of this plant such as health and environment noise disturbing the neighbourhood life. The most serious problem form it is environmental pollution. Among the environmental pollution caused by the construction of the plant including waste from this plant contain a variety of chemicals. This waste will pollute water, air and land in surrounding areas. In addition it will impact negatively on the ecosystem by removing the contaminated material such as heavy metals, organic toxins, petrol, nutrients and so forth. The organic waste is causing lower oxygen demand and endangers the whole ecosystem. This causes the water of life such as fish and other species cannot grow well, eventually die. Beside that. air quality will be tarnished when a fire burning factories and mills when the smoke or surplus materials physics, chemistry or biology in the atmosphere as sulphur dioxide gas, nitrojen dioxide, carbon monoxide and dust with a total that could endanger human health, animal and plants. Air pollution affects human health is such as asthma, bronchitis and other respiratory disorders. We must also oppose the construction of this plant because it would contribute the emergence of urban heat island caused many...
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...Noise Pollution Pollution, what is pollution? Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that causes adverse change. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy, such as noise, heat or light. Pollution also has different components call Pollutants. (Wikipedia 2012) A pollutant is substance or energy introduced into the environment that has undesired effects, or adversely affects the usefulness of a resource. A pollutant may cause long- or short-term damage by changing the growth rate of plant or animal species, or by interfering with human amenities, comfort, health, or property values. (Wikipedia 2012) There are also different kinds of pollutants like greenhouse gases, pesticides, endocrine disruptors, petroleum and heavy metals. Carbon dioxide and methane are two of the most important of these gases, called greenhouse gases because they trap heat in the earth's atmosphere. This is already causing severe problems around the world and the situation will only get worse. The rising temperatures will likely lead to more severe weather events, which cause shifts in natural communities, and probably lead to greater species extinction rates, among numerous other effects. Pesticides are a broad group of chemicals that enable us to live more comfortable lives by and large, but whose main purpose underlies the central problem with pesticide pollution. They are all poisons. A lot of these chemicals will wash into our rivers and streams...
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...Pollution and Saving the Forests Pollution has always been one of the most difficult issues for any country in the world to cope with. The consequences of pollution are extremely harmful and serious for Earth, but generally people are self-centered. There are three major types of pollution relating to human activities. One most common pollution is caused mainly by the release of gas and smoke from combustion engine vehicles and from burning oil and coal from factories is air pollution. The second type of pollution is known as water pollution which is the result of dumping and wasting of and the releasing of chemical from industry into lakes, rivers and oceans. This pollution can kill hundreds of thousands of people and animals due to the spread of disease in water which every creatures need for living. Land pollution is the last type of the list which human activities are the main factor. Such as misuse of land resources, disposal of urban and industrial waste and improper use of soil for agriculture. There is no doubt that air is the only main source which produces oxygen for the respiration of all living things on Earth. Unfortunately, this essential element is now more and more polluted by the one who mostly need it, human. Smoke comes from combustion engine vehicles, especially automobiles, trucks, buses, and photo-chemical air from burning in stationary sources are the main dominant sources of carbon dioxide (CO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) which causes air pollution...
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...think this problem should be resolved. Pollution is becoming closer to put life on the verge of death. Pollution is the contamination of Earth’s environment with materials that interfere with human health, the quality of life, or the natural functioning of ecosystems. Even though some pollution across the whole world is caused by the forces of nature, the majority comes from every day human activities and advancement in technology. Human contamination of Earth can take many forms such as water pollution, air pollution, noise pollution, soil pollution, solid waste, and hazardous waste. These harmful actions have changed Earth, and they continue to do so today. Among them all, I believe that water pollution is most potent to life on Earth. Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies and any change in water quality that negatively affects any living organism. Water pollution is usually caused by human activities such as the removal of sewage, industrial wastes, and agricultural chemicals. Water pollution is also caused by atmospheric deposition, eutrophication, radioactive waste, and global warming. It affects plants and organisms living in these bodies of water. In almost all cases the effect is damaging not only to individual species and populations, including humans, but also to the natural biological communities and ecosystems. I believe that humans should effectively work on reducing water pollution because water covers approximately 70% of the...
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...Air Pollution Pollutants in our air today are very serious environmental problem. Besides other pollutions such as water, sound and land, air pollution affects us the most as we inhale and exhale them every single seconds. As living in an industrial era, we have familiar with terms such as smog, lead, ozone, and carbon monoxide. The news, newspaper and media have shown a lot of consequences of these pollutants that we have to face nowadays such as the haze. More and more regulations have been established and implemented to minimize the air pollutions such as vehicle emissions testing standards and pollutant emitting facilities standards. However, it seems that all of these are not working as the air pollutions worsen. Thus, the causes need to be researched and identified to find for the solutions of combatting air pollution that affects us the most. According to Dr. Laurent Hodges in her book Environmental Pollution Second Edition (1997), there are a number of different causes of air pollution. Firstly, particulate matter that consists of solid and liquid aerosols which suspended in the atmosphere is one of the major cause. It comes from the burning of coal in industrial processes. These atmospheric particles will scatter and absorb sunlight then reduces visibility. Secondly, sulphur oxides that being produced when coal is burning and during industrial processes can damage materials, vegetation, and human respiratory system as it is acidic. Sulphur oxides, even in a small...
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...Air Pollution, Water Pollution and Noise Pollution! The dictionary definition of pollution is to make air, water, soil, etc. dangerously dirty and not suitable for people to use. The main forms of pollution are air, water, soil, noise thermal and radioactive waves. It is a man-made problem mainly caused by human waste material, release of poisonous gases and other chemical pollutants from the industry, agricultural pollutants like pesticides, and chemical fertilizers, pollutants by automobiles and dumping of chemical and nuclear wastes, etc. It has led to a worldwide environmental crisis. In many ways, it has changed both the individual and social ways of life. Air Pollution: The main sources of air pollution in India and elsewhere are mineral dust and gases, automobiles, thermal power plants and industries. Any contamination in the air may not only cause many diseases and loss of vision but can also disturb the whole atmospheric system. Air pollution can also cause acid rain which damages soil, vegetation and aquatic life of the region. The heavy use of automobiles causes pollution and smog from automobile emissions. This has become a serious problem in almost all the countries—developed and developing. The bad urban air bums the eyes, damages lung tissues and increases the levels of lead and other poisons in the human body and agricultural products. It is not known how many deaths occur nationally because of air pollution. Air pollution caused massive smog...
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...There are two types of the cause of pollution, natural and man-made. Natural pollution occurs naturally and won't cause excessive harm to our lives due to its regeneration ability. While the man-made pollution is caused by human activities, and hard to get rid of. The backbones of man-made pollution are human population and technology. Naturally human needs contact to the environment, we get resources from nature. This is for the sake of living. By the increase of human population, the contact is getting more intensive, because needs are increasing. And by the findings and development of new technologies, human can apply them to get the resources. And it's common that new technologies would bring their respective side effects besides their advantages. Water Pollution Water pollution is any chemical, physical or biological change in the quality of water that has a harmful effect on any living thing that drinks or uses or lives (in) it. When humans drink polluted water it often has serious effects on their health. Water pollution can also make water unsuited for the desired use. Water pollution is usually caused by human activities. Different human sources add to the pollution of water. There are two sorts of sources, point and nonpoint sources. Point sources discharge pollutants at specific locations through pipelines or sewers into the surface water. Nonpoint sources are sources that cannot be traced to a single site of discharge. Examples of point sources...
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...Assignment 2: Poverty and Pollution Case Study Mustafa Ismail Professor Jane Osburn BUS 309-Business Ethics March 05, 2013 The paper will explore the issues that are associated with poverty and pollution. The first section of the paper will explain the ethical implications of businesses polluting in third world countries. The second portion discusses why businesses disregard standards of pollution control while conducting operations in third world countries. The middle portion will explain how pollution is the price of progress and why human beings have the moral right to a livable environment. The final sections will explain why wealthy nations should not have the obligation to provide poorer nations with greener industries and the sources of energy and propose a plan for uniform global pollution control standards. Determine the ethical implications of businesses polluting in a third world country. Explain. First let’s give the definition of ethics. According to Lamb, Hair & McDaniel (2013) “ethics refers to the moral principles or values that generally govern the conduct of an individual or group” (p. 35). The ethical implications of businesses polluting in third world countries is whether to obey the moral laws that a person knows is right or to make money. Some businesses would rather act unethically and make money than to take responsibility for damaging people, land, animals, and other things. Another ethical implication is abide by the rule that regulate ...
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...Law Environment and Development Journal LEAD REVIEW OF NESREA ACT 2007 AND REGULATIONS 2009-2011: A NEW DAWN IN ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT IN NIGERIA Muhammed Tawfiq Ladan COUNTRY LEGISLATION 8/1 VOLUME LEAD Journal (Law, Environment and Development Journal) is a peer-reviewed academic publication based in New Delhi and London and jointly managed by the School of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) - University of London and the International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC). LEAD is published at www.lead-journal.org ISSN 1746-5893 The Managing Editor, LEAD Journal, c/o International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC), International Environment House II, 1F, 7 Chemin de Balexert, 1219 Châtelaine-Geneva, Switzerland, Tel/fax: + 41 (0)22 79 72 623, info@lead-journal.org Country Legislation REVIEW OF NESREA ACT 2007 AND REGULATIONS 2009-2011: A NEW DAWN IN ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT IN NIGERIA Muhammed Tawfiq Ladan This document can be cited as Muhammed Tawfiq Ladan, ‘Review of NESREA Act 2007 and Regulations 2009-2011: A New Dawn in Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in Nigeria’, 8/1 Law, Environment and Development Journal (2012), p. 116, available at http://www.lead-journal.org/content/12116.pdf Muhammed Tawfiq Ladan, Professor of Law, Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, Email: mtladan@gmail.com Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs...
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...address relevant environmental issues. As a result of the conference, the UNEP – United Nations Environment Program was created; its main role includes promoting and enabling forums for cooperation related to environmental issues, creating databases and references for scientific assessments to propose and draft international treaties looking for environment protection and preservation. The UNEP headquarters office is located in Nairobi, Kenya; this is the first United Nations agency that is located in third world capital country. The UNEP has influence over national environmental problems, transnational pollution issues, as well as global and regional issues. A major focus area is the global warning; they have created the “Earthwatch” network to monitor atmospheric and marine pollution conditions around the world. Two major programs managed by the agency are water pollution and desertification issues related to human settlements and refugees; UNEP has organized and produced studies and treaties related to these issues applicable to nation-states and international businesses. They spend millions of dollars annually on cleanup and management projects. The major obstacle faced by UNEP is related to funding; it receives significantly less money than other UN agencies; its staff is composed by only...
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