Attribution of recent climate change

The term Climate change is a reference to any meaningful alterations in the measures of climate that takes place over a long period of time. Climate involves substantial changes in temperature, rainfall or wind that arise over numerous decades or more. The term is sometimes applied to particularly refer to changes in climate that are caused due to human activity, in contrast to changes that may have occurred in climate due to the Earth’s usual processes. In this particular sense, especially…

Livestock production and climate change affect and get influenced by each other. The most important effects of climate change on the environment and livestock include rise in temperature, elevation in sea level, alteration in microbial eco-system and several others effects, known or unknown which might affect the livestock positively or negatively. There have been various predictions about the quantum of sea level rise with varying degree of confidence because many of the natural phenomena have…

Eye on Earth Summit is the merging of a progression of activities done by some organisations in the last recent years that addresses the worldwide competition of expanding access to the information and data in order to support sustainable development. It addresses the pivotal significance of environmental information and systems to make decisions. It was firstly introduced in December 2011 by a partnership between the Environment Agency in Abu Dhabi (EAD) and the United Nations Environment…

The effects of climate change are felt across the world with temperatures rising and snow and ice being less apparent in colder countries. The effects of climate change are prominent on the outside, however, what many people fail to realize is that it affects the ocean too, temperatures are rising and not only that but the ocean chemistry is changing as well due to increased amounts of carbon dioxide dissolving into the ocean. This leads to several complications in the coral reef ecosystems. The…

The Earth is currently undergoing environmental problems. The existence of these environmental problems is represented by three factors: increase of population due to the rise of economic activities, decrease of the Earth’s resources, and the destruction of nature. Because of these, architects are searching for sustainable approaches and are promoting sustainable architecture. In the modern day, several infrastructures around the globe are based on. Architecture is more than building and…

Subsequently, agricultural expansion has contributed to widespread land degradation and climatic changes through the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from sources, such as soils, biomass burning, enteric fermentation, rice cultivation, fertilisers and manure management. Climate change and land degradation are intricately linked because of the feedback between land degradation and climatic elements. Climate change aggravates land degradation, especially soil degradation, by altering the…

3.2. Phosphorus recovery in MEC When the pH of the cathode chamber reached 8, P started to precipitate as struvite. The reactor accomplished a peak precipitation efficiency of 94%. Recovery of P was in the cathode chamber, where the neutral solution was converted to alkaline by proton consumption. Previous studies reported similar results, like Cusick et al. (2014) and You et al. (2016), where high P removal was carried out by MEC (85%) and MFC (82%), respectively. Cathode pH was affected by…

While living on this earth do we ever stop and think about how we should try to save our natural resources for future generations, or do we give it away to everyone that is in need of these resources? In his essay, Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor, Garrett Hardin, discusses the plight of overpopulation on our natural resources. Hardin states that for posterity we should not contaminate, waste, or give away our natural resources. He uses a lifeboat metaphor, Hardin explains…

The antidote for climate change Everyone knows that there are four seasons in a year, but have we ever imagined that there will be only three of them left in the future, and our future generations may not be able to experience the bone-chilling weather in winter? Winter will be gone in the future on account of the impacts of climate change. Climate change is a disastrous problem for mankind as Naomi Klein stresses in her book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. Climate Change, which is…

Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations revolves around the accelerating forces of technology, globalization and climate change, which are driving the “Machine.” A term used by the author to describe “the world’s biggest gears and pulleys [that] are shaping events.” In chapter 6, Friedman uses “Mother Nature” as an umbrella term to refer to climate change, biodiversity loss and population growth and he argues that “Mother Nature has entered the second half of the chessboard”…