Carbon

Oil is usually found deep under ground, but the greater Los Angeles area up through the Santa Barbara area is one of a few places in the world where oil is not just close to the surface, it is on the surface, bubbling in cold pits of bitumen, also known as asphalt and tar. This asphaltum has been important to humans for as long as they have lived in the region. In the past it was primarily used to waterproof boats, water carriers, and cooking vessels or as an adhesive. Now, of course we use…

deforestation is the same as the loss of thirty-six football fields every minute. One and a half acres of forest is cut down every second. Although it allows for people to generate more revenue, deforestation should be banned because it creates more carbon dioxide in the air, promotes the development of drought, contributes to the extinction of wildlife and is a limited resource. Deforestation is when forested land is destroyed and made into non-forested land used for waste space or urban use…

“Greenhouse Effect”, meaning when radiation from the sun is directed towards Earth’s surface some is reflected away, while most is absorbed into the greenhouse gases making up our atmosphere. These gases in order of abundance are water vapour (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and ozone (O3). Some other gases that only make up a tiny percentage of the atmosphere include Chlorofluorocarbons…

plant receives more light, then it will have a higher rate of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is a process that converts carbon dioxide into sugars such as glucose using energy from the sun. It is basically how plants make their own food. In order to make this food plants need carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight. Plants obtain these materials in a variety of ways. For example, carbon dioxide from the air passes through small pores, called stomata, in the leaves. Additionally, water is absorbed by…

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a key cause of global warming and other environmental damage according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A green tax is an excise tax that could provide considerable environmental pollution relief by promoting environmentally sustainable practices via economic incentives. As part of President Obama’s administration’s Green initiative, a policy implementation of a green tax on carbon would greatly benefit the United States’ environment and economy…

we can reduce gasoline, recycle more products and use less carbon dioxide. Gasoline is a highly flammable…

can harm the environment. With little studies proving the safety or hazardness of fracking and its byproducts, regulations should be put in place that ban or strictly manage the environmental impacts caused by hydraulic fracking. To begin with, carbon emissions, or the smoke that results from burning fossil fuels are believed to be bad for the environment, and efforts to minimize them have been consistently…

climate, it sends out carbon dioxide and mercury, fills your body with pollution, and kills our landscape. Coal is changing our world slowly but surely. Co2, also known as carbon dioxide; is hurting the world more than one would originally think. By burning coal the amount of carbon dioxide in the air keeps growing by about 2 ppm each year. Climate change involving mountain glaciers and coral reefs are affected. Even if we take maximum effort to slow down the release of carbon dioxide today the…

growing interest in the diversity of different types of land use systems and the roles they play in stabilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations as well as mitigating CO2 emissions. Specific interest has been shown towards agroforestry systems and their ability to sequester carbons in above and below ground biomass while simultaneously enhancing global carbon sinks (Dixon et al. 1994). Agroforestry offers the opportunities to syndicate the twin objectives of adapting to climate…

Global Warming: A Natural process or a Self-Inflicted Wound? One of the biggest issues that today’s world is facing is global warming, a topic of concern to almost every human being in the globe; we have seen its effects on the crops and lands, we have experienced the scorching heat and thermal discomfort and, more often than not, we have blamed the industrialized nations for it (conveniently disregarding the fact that we use most of the products these demonized countries generate). But what is…