Lead change

Nowadays, climate change has become a severe problem. Extreme climate causes many disasters. Tsunamis, floods, drought, every occurrence will cause millions of deaths and injuries or ecological calamities. For example, France reached a high temperature of 104 degrees Fahrenheit in 2003, in only two weeks that caused nearly fifteen thousand people perished in a heat wave (The Natural Resources Defence Council, 2015). The impact on global warming will continue to expand and cause more effect on ecological, environmental, economic, and societal aspects. In addition, the main element that leads to climate change is energy consumption. Thence, reducing global consumption is the key to curb environmental deterioration. This essay will present two reasons that cause energy consumption. The first reason is agriculture has become the main reason of climate change. Second, Effects of global food wasting. Meanwhile, to suggest three solutions that individuals can do to reduce energy consumption, and to evaluate them. First of all, most people believe that…

Global warming is a rise in temperature in the troposphere that may lead to climate change. Global climate change is a much broader term that discusses changes in any part of the climate on Earth. These changes could occur in temperature, precipitation, or storm intensity. A change in global climate could be a warning or a cooling of the temperature. Often associated with global warming is the Greenhouse effect. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere can trap and hold heat from the sun.…

1800’s humans have had the knowledge that climate changes are possible, and can happen from atmosphere variations as Fourier calculated in 1824, which can lead to the Earth becoming far colder. Additionally, the industrial revolution lead to “coal, railroads, and land clearing”, which lead to increase greenhouse gas emission. According to the Global Climate Change web page, “greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere, which makes the Earth warmer.” The gases that constitute the greenhouse…

Advancement in Radiation Protection: Non-Lead Apron People are exposed to radiation every day just by being alive on this earth. One receives approximately 3,000 µSv of ubiquitous background radiation a year, which means approximately 8.2 µSv per day (Howerton, Iannucci, 2012). This is known as background radiation and is caused by terrestrial, cosmic, and naturally occurring radon. On the other hand, during radiographic examination some degree of biological damage does occur during exposure,…

In 2010, New Hampshire lost 11 Common Loons to lead poisoning. Knowing the deaths would be detrimental to a severely threatened population, an investigation of dead loons, collected from 1989 to 2010, was carried out by the Loon Preservation Committee, Dr. Mark Pokras of Tufts University, and Tiffany Grade, a graduate student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Necropsies and tissue samples showed lead poisoning was responsible for nearly half of all the dead birds examined. Despite…

Lead (Pb) is one of an important contaminant surrounding our environment. Lead occur naturally in all soil and water (1), or can be found deep within the ground located in ore (2). Although lead can be found in small quantities, there is a great quantity of lead flow in the environment that is detrimental to human beings and plants. However, despite lead is a toxic metal, there are still lots of households products contains lead; burning of paper products, discarded rubber, battery casings, and…

the ancient world first came into existence, it is believed the Greeks were the first to use the word, possibly borrowed from another Mediterranean language. Some centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, the word Plumbum changed to become known as Lead. However, the word Plumbum gave rise to a number of derivatives including the following words: Plumb: A lead weight on a string used to define a vertical line. In addition, it is also used as a term in Cricket where a batsman has been…

FOR more than two decades Wittenoom in WA’s Pilbara region was a mining stronghold. The small country town which lies around 1400kms northeast of Perth was also, at one stage, the only place in Australia that produced blue asbestos. But when demand for the deadly mineral began to wane and fears of serious health concerns began to emerge, the operation was shut down in 1966. However it was another decade before authorities realised the blue dust that swept throughout the town was extremely…

concern. Exposure to lead has been a major environmental hazard for a very long time. Reference to Lin, S. (2011), reveals that, I t poses a threat to the health of individuals when an intolerable amount of lead is either inhaled or ingested. Routes of exposure to lead include contaminated air, water, soil, food, and consumer products. Occupational exposure is also a common cause of lead poisoning in adults. Children are more susceptible to exposure to toxic metals than are adults. Some groups,…

As the health and safety manager, I’ve identified that workers were exposed to cadmium and lead. Cadmium is a soft malleable transition metal. It is silvery bluish-white in color. Although toxic by nature, this chemical element is commonly used to create dry cell batteries. Like mercury, cadmium has the lowest melting point of groups three through eleven transition metals. Lead is a malleable soft heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. It bluish-white in color when freshly cut,…