Biosphere

amount of organisms. One of the most commons forms of metabolism involves an enzyme called cytochrome oxidase through a process known as aerobic metabolism(1). Cytochrome oxidase is responsible for a majority of molecular oxygen reduction in the biosphere(2).Aerobic metabolism is believed to have originated around 2400-2100 MYA due to the increase in oxygen composition of the earth(3). Around this time, we began to observe an increase in biological complexity due to the oxygenic atmosphere…

In some ways, capitalism has brought the best of times, and the worst of times. We’ve prospered, yet there are billions of people that are still suffering from the negative externalities of our capitalist economy and its effect on the environment. To address the current problems with the economy and the environment, we need to raise consciousness and educate, create and enforce fiscal and regulatory policies on the local and national level, and create international agreements that will lead to a…

I am convinced that the topic at hand is of great significance. In fact, as I prepared to draft this article it became clearer to me that this issue is far more paramount than I ever realized. With that stated, it occurred to me that when the question of how life began on our planet is raised, the theory of evolution dominants academia. That is to say, the modern translation of Darwin’s theory of evolution is regarded above all other possible suppositions when pertaining to our academic models.…

According to a governmental publication in 2009 over 1 billion pounds of pesticides are used in the United States alone, each year, and approximately 5.6 billion pounds are used worldwide. This is an astonishing factoid in which should formulate concern within the citizens of not only Malone and its surrounding areas, but also in all people scattered throughout the world. Chemicals used in pesticides aren’t specific enough to only pursue their intended targets, in addition to killing only a…

Global warming has been a huge controversial topic throughout society in recent years. With global changes that affect so many people, environments, and living things, attention is brought to the issue to make it clear what is actually happening. “During the period 1979 to 2006, the annual sea ice area in the arctic decreased by about 3.2% per decade.”(Wiig) The Earth is warming, which obviously makes drastic changes to certain habitats of many species. The polar bear inhabits the arctic, which…

Individual awareness concerning the current condition of the environment has risen to the attention of psychologists in recent years, their curiosity concerning what personality traits entice a person’s awareness, concern, and intentions to act on environmental needs. An individual’s self-awareness, or self-construal, towards the environmental decay brought on heavily due to destructive human behaviors, could stem from how the individual views themselves and their actions in relation to others…

Ecological imperialism delineated as the intentional destruction, through exploitation, taking out and transmit of natural resources of the colonized lands in the fascination of scientific and economic progress. The main objective of this article is to show that the loss of the natural environment and agrarian culture and the evils of the rapid urbanization and industrial activity, Green Imperialism through the two famous fictions of George Orwell. It also focuses on the ecological dimension of…

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are organisms in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally (Genetically Modified, 2006). GMOs are produced by forcing DNA from one organism into another. Soybeans, corn, canola, plums, and rice are few of the GMOs occurring in our world. Products continue to be developed and experimented in laboratories. Naturally modified organisms bring up the question about GMOs and if there is a difference between the two.…

The sixth element in the periodic table is one of the most important elements of them all, carbon. This element, located on group fourteen and period two of the periodic table, has an atomic number of 6 and a molar mass of 12.01; this means that it has 6 electrons, 6 protons, and 6 neutrons. The element is lightweight, fairly small, the fourth most abundant element on Earth, and is essential for living, growing, and reproducing. Carbon is found in all living and non-living organisms, in the form…

Climate change refers to the increase in global temperatures. Among the contributors to the rise in temperature is from human activity itself. Warm planets leads and cause the temperature changes and also affect the weather in many ways. Land and sea temperatures are one way to measure the effects of climate change. A global warming has the potential to alter patterns of rain and snowfall, causing severe storms and droughts, reduced ice on the lake, glaciers melts, rising sea levels, and changes…