Desertification

The prominent desertification issue is a result of years of environmental degradation from overgrazing livestock such as cattle and other herding animals. Desertification depletes nutrients in soil and therefore makes the crops less nutritious. 80.7% of Niger’s population is rural (CIA) who depend on agriculture to meet their families’ daily…

precipitation. The combination of warmer climates and less rain leads to desertification. Desertification is the drying of previously fertile land. In Nigeria, there is a rising trend of desertification. Approximately one fifth of Nigerian land is gradually becoming desertified.6 Policy leaders should be interested in the rise of desertification, because once land is infertile, it is very difficult to replace. Deforestation leads to desertification. The more forests are cleared, the less land is…

From both human contributions and natural sources, our planet is constantly changing. New scientific discoveries with the potential to save lives are occurring, new technology is making it increasingly common to have communications with people and groups across previously uncrossable boundaries, and humans are constantly breaking records and norms to challenge what we believe is possible. The world is not an inherently bad place, but we have our problems. While we are accomplishing all of…

one began to produce more crops it does face many environmental issues such as desertification, and deforestation. Africa receives huge rainfalls for the tropical forests, but natives chop down the forest in order to grow their food for survival. This makes the environment worse as it ruins the are for animals to live in. Also Kalahari Desert as well as the Sahara Desert and Sahel expand rapidly because desertification is an issue where areas that are not typically deserts are now transformed…

These techniques would work to combat desertification and soil infertility. Traditional farming techniques of West Africa are not very sustainable due to the apparent issue of soil degradation. The nutrient depleted farms could potentially become more fertile if methods like agroforestry, crop rotation…

Industrialization has brought with itself numerous benefits and costs to China. The country went through a massive migration from rural areas to urban cities and urbanization transformed China into one of the most advanced and modern cities in the whole world. With industrialization, the country saw huge improvements in the fight against poverty, and growth in economic opportunities. Working class people now had much more opportunity to transition into a higher class such as the middle class, or…

The berbers tribe in Morocco are one of the largest tribes on this planet consisting of approximately 40 percent of Morocco's population of 32 million people (1). Although up to 80 percent of the country’s population reportedly has some degree of native Berber blood in their family (1). Morocco itself has is scattered with ride-ranging mountains, a vast coastline, while having a subtropical climate which at times can prove to be a challenge to thrive in such an environment especially when…

of 149 acres every minute, or 214,000 acres every day. The result of these forests and trees being cleared was that it was causing global warming, ozone depletion, species extinction, rain forest destruction and it has depleted fisheries and desertification. The amount of the amazon that was about one million acres or that is about 10% of the Amazon or about the size of Washington states Olympic peninsula. Each year 50,000 species were being extirpated that’s 137 each day. The indigenous…

Roediger’s “Why Are Textbooks So Expensive” and Hannibal’s “Why the Beaver Should Thank the Wolf”, are journals about two different subjects, yet they share the common belief that one small change would be for the better. The obvious difference between the journals is that one refers to a wolf and one to textbook. Roediger gives many examples and a few ideas for solutions to the rise on the cost of textbooks, while Hannibal states the benefits and consequence of having and not having wolves in…

Deforestation in the Amazon Did you know that it is said that within 100 years, there will be no more rainforests? The rate of 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…