Snowball Earth

Preserving the Planet: A Moral Issue As individuals, each person does not fully realize their impact on the collective whole of humanity. In both negative and positive aspects, people do not recognize the destructive potential of their behaviors, nor can they always predict the beneficial effects of their constructive actions. This is especially true in regards to the environment and climate change. As a human race, people must realize that certain lifestyles and production of materials are…

The Barn The sun is just starting to peek over the horizon, casting soft rays of light over the Earth and turning this usually chaos filled place, into a calm haven. Here I can clear my mind and enjoy simply being and breathing. This is an opportunity never able to be seized once the afternoon rush of people start trickling in. There is not a cloud in the sky and a cool breeze rustles the leaves of the trees. I make my way towards the barn to see my horse before I head off to school. The old…

Warming Scientists have spent their lives studying the earth; taking note of all its activities, changes and collusion. After studying and analyzing the earth, they came up with the term known as Global warming. Global Warming can be defined as “the unusual and frequent increase in the earth’s temperature over time, primarily due to the greenhouse gases released by people burning fossil fuels. Looking back to the history of the earth, it has experience several changes; climate has been…

Earth’s Atmosphere By Ikotun Oluwatoke Environmental science 2000 Student number: 7733112 Introduction Human activities has caused increase of dangerous air pollutant and climate change which has led to serious health illness, the increase in population is directly proportional to the increase in human sources of pollution. In the early model of Earth’s atmosphere, oxygen was a minor component of the Earth’s atmosphere and so many theories were made up for why this was so. However, as…

half of the shell, that became the sky and the bottom half of his feet where he stood on, turned the bottom half into the earth. The longer Pangu kept the halves divided, the thicker it became. As he grew taller, the farther the distance of the universe and the world got. Afterwards, Pangu positioned the sun, moon, planets and stars perfectly in place. He, then shaped the earth and divided the four seas. However, because of Pangu’s knowledge of the ying yang of all things were created and…

the atmosphere, trapping radiation, and heating the Earth. Humans are depending on fossil fuels that release these emissions. Though we have increasingly started depending on renewable resources that don’t release these harmful gases into the atmosphere, we can already see the effects today and if this doesn’t stop now the planet will be destroyed. The human intervention that people have depended on with the environment is destroying the Earth. Some people want to do nothing, but if they do…

Iceland is located in the North Atlantic sea, near the arctic circle. Iceland is 40,000 square miles large, which is approximately the size of Virginia and Kentucky combined. Only around 20 percent of the island is inhabited, and it is smallest country in Europe based on population (Geography). Some refer to the island as the land of fire and ice due to the presence of both glaciers and volcanoes (Gunnarsdóttir, Nanna, 2016). Volcanoes can even be found beneath glaciers. Glaciers cover more than…

Human Effects On Global Warming How do we, humans, affect the topic “global warming?” What is global warming? How does it affect the earth and living organisms? Global warming is a term used for describing a consistent change of heat temperature on our earth. It is also believed to permanently change the earth’s climate, making it warmer and warmer as time moves forward. It affects mainly sea and ice animals, scientists estimate that the arctic sea ice is melting 12% every…

The World Will Be More Dangerous Since ancient times, safety issues have been essential for both national and international aspects. Most of the time, there is a peaceful relationship within nations and countries, and the world seems to become safer and wealthier. In recent years, some people predict the world is becoming safer in many articles or reports. Many leaders of the countries devote their time to reach diplomatic, peaceful, steady relationships with other countries. When we see the…

In “The World Is All That Is The Case” by Lee Seigel, he argues that although the internet and technologies can have great benefits, its downside cannot be denied. The downside of the internet is that it blurs the line between a fantasy world and real life. The internet is encouraging people to create independent worlds for each other that make it even harder to simply be human and be aware of the world. Technologies are assimilating human existence to an economic model which has nothing to do…