Ozone

Entire ecosystems have been deteriorating as a result of land disturbance, pollution, landfills deforestation, and overpopulation. As a result the ozone layer has suffered a major destitution of its entirety, there has been loss of biodiversity, impacts on human health, economic impacts, and the forced relocation and loss of species. Species need a habitat to live as does anything, but today most habitats…

Combustion of Alkanes What is combustion? Combustion is a chemical process where a fuel reacts with oxygen and releases heat. The fuel can either be a solid, liquid or gas and the oxidizer, the source of oxygen can also be a solid liquid or gas. A new chemical substance is created from the fuel and source of oxygen. These new chemical substances are referred to as exhaust. For combustion to occur, a fuel, oxygen and heat are required. In an alkane, the more carbon atoms that are present, the…

Based on the good management theory which states that when the company has a good reputation and sharing in social and environmental activities, this in turn will end up into a strong financial position. This means that corporate social performance come first then corporate financial performance. Therefore, in this dissertation, environmental performance as a part of corporate social performance is considered to be the independent variable which is measured by the ISO 14001 as dummy variable and…

Many people debate on should or should not smoking in public places be banned. Everyone knows that smoking harms our health and destroys every organ in our body. Tobacco was found in America for more than 8000 years. People started chewing tobacco at first and they only smoke it during specific events as been said by the “A brief history of smoking” (2011, p.1). It was considered as a type of accessories for a man to hold a tobacco in his hand. Some people see it as a sign of being mature and…

Nowadays, air pollution has become one of the most impactful environmental problems. The quality of the air we breathe is in the decline for some decades now and its impacts are becoming more apparent year after year. The most major impact is the one it has on human health, from deteriorating the quality of our everyday life quality to being the root cause for a long list of health problems. The second big impact is the huge amount of money we need to spend on health care to treat all the health…

All cultures and religions have many different ways to take care for the dead to show respect. Some cultures cremate their dead while others might bury their dead. Some cultures may show respect for the dead by having a tombstone or a statue for them to make sure that person cannot be forgotten. The idea of keeping the memory of someone that had died alive started in Egypt thousands of years ago. In ancient Egypt there were tombs and statues that were created so their Pharaoh will never be…

During the eruption, 5 cubic kilometres of material and gases were released into the atmosphere. By the end of 1991, the volcanic gases had travelled around the world, dropping the temperature by about 0.5°C and causing the ozone hole in Antarctica to become even larger. The ash cloud caused planes and airports all around the world to shut down due to the potential damage that could be caused to the planes. There were jets that still sustained damage that was estimated to…

Chapter: Soil, Water and Air Pollution 1. Introduction: Definitions of soil, water and air pollution; sources and types of soil, water and air pollution, soil and water pollution status in India With rapid increase and development in industrial and agricultural sectors along with population explosion, huge amount of organic and inorganic waste is released in environment and causing serious threats to environment and agro-ecosystem. This procedure can bring about a danger in the human wellbeing.…

“climate change” is a fancy word invented to cover up “global warming.” Global warming sounds so scary, but climate change sounds like something we can help combat or something less scary than the thought of our planet burning up because of a hole in the ozone layer. It’s remarkable how word-choice can have such a big impact on our ideas and feelings towards things. It’s also interesting to see politically how people react to each set of words. Either way you look at it, changes are happening…

rise. With the amount of pollution output by Americans, we must find renewable sources that don’t harm our planet. The need for gas and oil has become a problem in today’s society as it is constantly being burned, and creates harmful fumes in our ozone. A promising energy source would be wind power, because it is an infinite source of energy as our planet naturally produces wind. Although windmills are effective in creating a renewable source of energy that doesn’t create pollution, new…