Look ahead to a world where the rainforests have been devastated. As a shadow of its former self, deforestation has reduced the Amazon to a third of its current size. Over forty-percent of the species once native to the region have gone extinct. Undiscovered plants, with the potential to yield new medicines and cures, are no longer in existence. Thousands of new animal and insect species, unknown to the outside world, have all died off. Look ahead to a world where finding clean water is rare. A…
overtime, the Industrial Revolution has made a negative impact on the environment through urbanization. The author will give some background information and illustrate the deterioration of the environment through pollution of air, water, and deforestation.…
Humans are altering the biosphere in many ways. Some of these ways include air pollution, deforestation, solid waste production,water pollution, and many more. The problem with air pollution comes mainly from burning fossil fuels. We burn fossil fuels through burning the coal, oil, natural gases, and fuel we need to drive cars and have electricity. Water pollution comes mainly from dumping untreated sewage into bodies of water like the ocean, lakes, ponds, rivers, etc. This is causing our water…
The ancient Mayan Civilization was one of history’s greatest. The Mayan achieved remarkable scientific innovations that our culture further benefits from today. These advances include that of the cosmic calendar, allowing the prediction of solar eclipses and the understanding of other celestial bodies, stunningly intelligent architectural temples and entire royal cities, engineering teachings, mathematical inventions, and advanced communications. The explanation of this phenomenal empire’s…
Historically the surrounding forests and wetlands of São Paulo have soaked up rain and released it into the reservoir, but the destruction of these areas are causing the reservoir to dry up, contributing to the drought. Even the deforestation in the Amazon River basin hundreds of miles away may also be adding to the water crisis; cutting the forest reduces its capacity to release humidity into the air, diminishing rainfall in southeast Brazil. The city’s surging population growth in the 20th…
Vermont’s land began to weaken because of the intense deforestation in order to make room for vast merino wool farms and increasing numbers of crop farms after 1811. With the growing realization of land deterioration, Vermonters started to worry about Vermont’s land becoming unsupportive, which could cause economic decline. The decline in soil quality was drastic, which led to the decline in the number of farm animals the land could support. Vermonters had no idea how drastically they were…
Instead of throwing away some paper that was used, put it into the recycling bin. Or, instead of sitting outside and doing nothing all day, plant a tree. These little things can help save forests and animals habitats that live inside of them. Deforestation invades habitats, hurts the earth and needs to be reduced. To start, conservation began in the eighteenth…
RAMODIKWE OWEN DOLAMO 7200192 9307015851082 PAARLMEDIA COLDSET INTRO Plant Earth which is also known as the Blue Planet it is also known as the Planet of life because scientist believe that it is the only planet in the solar system that contains life. It is the third planet from the sun and the fifth largest planet in the solar system. It has its own way of protecting itself and life on it (species, humans and plants), it has a strong magnetic field to protect itself and life on it from solar…
Global warming has always been a thought in the back of scientist heads and they knew that it could eventually happen because of the heating of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, but in the early 1990’s, scientists had discovered that global warming was quickly becoming an issue on Earth and according to many researches, 97% of those scientist say that humans are the reason for it. According to the PBS documentary, “the climate has gone up 4-5 degrees in just the last fifty years in Alaska,…
There are several environmental issues affecting Latin America. What environmental issues are there in Latin America? The environmental issues affecting Latin America are air pollution, acid rain, deforestation, and oil-relating pollution. First let’s start with air pollution in Mexico City. Mexico City `s high elevation means that there are less oxygen, so fuels do not completely burn. What causes air pollution? The air pollution is cause by overcrowding, industrialization, vehicle emissions,…