Antarctica

Plastic Bottles Are Just Big Trouble “50 billion plastic bottles are used each year in America, that’s enough to wrap around the world 190 times,” (Leithman). Even though plastic bottles are popular now, when they were first created in 1947, they were very expensive and not many people bought them. However, in 1960, high-density polyethylene was made and introduced to the public. As the demand for plastic bottles escalated, consumers produced more plastic bottles for cheap, while selling the…

prey at 35 miles per hour with rows upon rows of its 300 razor-like teeth. Those sharp teeth are used to rip and slice through its prey, rather than mash like with molars. White sharks can be found off the shoreline of every continent, except for Antarctica. Great whites typically lurk around small groupings of islands called archipelagos, which are home to large numbers of seals and sea lions. Both of which are important food sources for great whites. While hunting a seal or sea lion, a shark…

Human Influences on Global Climate Change The earth has been around for about 4.5 billion years, and the climate has been changing throughout that time period. Most of this climate change is in a sense normal because it is due to small variations in the Earth’s orbit or due to natural influences such as solar changes or volcanic eruptions. Although the occurrence of climate change is relatively settled and accepted, some uncertainty remains as to whether humans and their ecological footprint…

The purpose of this report is: to analyze the most relevant effects of the film Blackfish to SeaWorld, how those effects have affected SeaWorld’s business, management, and shareholders, and finally, determine if SeaWorld’s response to the film is enough. Soon after Blackfish was released, the controversy started. Since the beginning, PETA has been one of the most persistent issues for SeaWorld; using different tactics and technology, PETA managed to reach thousands of people that rise against…

Have you ever heard the phrase “frothing at the mouth?” Maybe the word “lyssa?” Have you ever read the book Cujo, or heard the word “hydrophobia”? Have you wondered about one of the deadliest viruses known to humankind? There is one thing all of those have in common, and that is rabies. Rabies is a virus, and it attacks the nervous system of its host, eventually becoming deadly. However, it can all be prevented with a vaccine. However, before you can understand how the rabies vaccine works,…

James Lovelock, fundamentally formulated the theory that our Earth is unique and complex because the Earth is a self-regulating system that replenishes itself for the species, in order to maintain homeostasis, within the system. Lovelock interestingly familiarizes our Earth to the nature of human beings, such as the Earth’s skin are forests that sweat to preserve the cooling of the Earth, while the oceans are rivers of blood that flow through the veins of Earth transporting nutrients and washing…

Glaciers melting, water rising, the earth getting hotter: what do we usually attribute this to? Global warming, also known as global climate change. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, global warming is “the recent increase in the world 's temperature that is believed to be caused by the increase of certain gases (such as carbon dioxide) in the atmosphere.” Interestingly enough, most of the scientific community is in turmoil about if global warming is really happening, making it difficult…

Global warming is the process in which sunlight that is being redirected back into space gets trapped inside of the Earth’s atmosphere due to the abundance of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The more heat that is trapped and absorbed by such gases causes the overall temperature of Earth to rise. It is natural and anthropogenic – human induced – climate changes that are attributed to increased gases in the greenhouse effect, though anthropogenic changes play a larger role in global…

The Virus Change Are we to blame for the world of the unseen changing at an alarming rate? Throughout the last few decades, the world of viruses have changed. Some harmful viruses are spreading more faster and easier than they ever had before, and there have been some resurrections of some old viruses. The recent changes in the world of viruses are not a natural occurrence but brought on by humanity. One of the main reason for the changes in the virus worlds as we know it is the latest changes…

phosphoprotein (P), matrix protein (M), glycoprotein (G) and polymerase (L)” (www.cdc.gov/rabies/transmission/virus.html). “The rabies virus occurs in more than 150 countries and territories and is present on every continent with the exception of Antarctica. Some of the factors that can increase your risk of rabies stated by MayoClinic are: “traveling or living in developing countries where rabies is more common, including countries in Africa and Southeast Asia, activities that are likely to…