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“According to the EPA in the last hundred years the sea level has about risen six to eight inches” (Hohensee). The ice caps are melting at an increasing rate, this is due to the increase in the global temperature. The melting ice is causing ocean and rivers to have a rise in water. The increase in oceans is causing beaches to erode faster. Due to this many coastal cities and factories have faced issue with increased storms and flooding. Places like Bangladesh have frequent flooding and suffer…

Stephanie Shih-yu Cheng has performed in various countries around the world such as United States, Italy, Taiwan, France and Japan. She won a lot of competitions and awards. Who would have thought that just being a student in a foreign university like AUK, will give the opportunity to meet and enjoy the presence of famous persons such as Mr. Hiarachchi and Dr.…

Endangered Species Imagine the world where species are dying because they couldn’t find food because there food is extinct. The world would turn into chaos just because of one species. So if the government could save that one endangered species then we could stop the world from going into chaos. Endangered species have a huge impact on the world and if they go extinct it can mess up everything. “Endangered species does not just refer to wildlife but rather any living organism whether in the air…

Trophy Hunting is a wild game of human recreation were the animal is hunted and are displayed on the wall or other parts of the room to show an ‘accomplishment and pride’. There are various types of games for the trophy hunting some are canned hunting, were the people trap the animal on a closed or fences area were the animal have to participation a die or die situation if the animal survives the hunt either wise it will be killed by other hunters. Big game hunting is a game as the name…

money. Stewart Brand, from Long Now Foundation, points out “They will drag their parents to zoos to see the woolly mammoth and growing populations of captive-bred passenger pigeons, ivory-billed woodpeckers, Carolina parakeets, Eskimo curlews, great auks, Labrador ducks, and maybe even dodoes” (Brand 64). That once people are exposed to the reality of how much these animals are actually fighting to survive, then they will be inspired to help out. This reason can be right but it is also weak…

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert describes Earth's five previous mass extinctions and how humans are to blame for leading our biodiversity into a sixth mass extinction. As an animal lover and an Earth-history enthusiast, I was excited to begin The Sixth Extinction. Kolbert begins by documenting her scientific journeys, relating biodiversity's current extinction rates, to the previous five, showing the interconnectedness through history. Following this, Kolbert emphasizes that we are…

Throughout the history of man, hunting has been a recurring activity among people, helping them survive and evolve. From the beginning, hunting was not only a tool for providing food, it was also used for manufacturing clothes, tools and shelter. For some cultures, this is an important part of their life, not just because it helps them to survive, it also forms part of its tradition and identity. However, over the time, this practice has changed greatly, from the way that people hunt and the…

are wonderful things, they easily turn to abuse. Over-hunting, over farming, and the overuse of fossil fuels leads to the destruction of our world. Kolbert examines several examples of abuses caused by humanity such as: the extinction of the great auk from overhunting, the acidification of the ocean and deforestation of the Amazon rain forest, and the increase of invasive species in non-native…

placed under the umbrella of a single true cause: humanity. The signs are all around us. The Panamian golden frog, the colorful coral reef, the little brown bat of New England, and countless more have disappeared in this lifetime, just as the great auk, Neanderthals, and countless more disappeared in previous lifetimes. Ultimately, Kolbert shows that unless we change our paradigm and our lifestyles, we are en route to disaster. Only through immediate change can we attempt to reverse the harmful…

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