Strategic Petroleum Reserve

A company called Energy Transfer Partners wants to build a pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois to transport oil. They say that this is the safest way to carry oil. The pipeline would be near the Stand Rock Sioux tribe, and could negatively affect them. The Native Americans believe that the pipeline would destroy their land and contaminate their water source. Thousands of people have come to protest the building of this pipeline. Should the North Dakota pipelines be built near Native American…

“This is by far the worst water quality we’ve ever seen in our sailing careers,” said Ivan Bulaja, a coach for an Austrian team training at Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, where the 2016 Olympics will be held. The waters are polluted with sewage, dead fish, and trash, posing a serious threat to athletes training or competing there. Kristina Mena, a professor of public health, is an expert in water quality, and conducted a risk test for athletes competing in the waters Rio, assuming they would…

Twelve Apostles The Twelve Apostles are lime stone rocks which are standing in the sea. The Apostles were formed by erosion. They lie between Princetown and Port Campbell in the Twelve Apostles Marine National Park, in the Southern Ocean on the coastline of Victoria. It is also bordered to the Port Campbell National Park. It's probably the most photographed attraction in Australia. It was called ''The Sow and Pigs'' and ''Muttonbird Island''. These names were noted on the map which was used…

Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer commanded three ships; the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina. Searching for a direct water route to china from Europe. However, the technology Columbus uses is not as advanced as it is now. Ship sailing, navigation, and calculations are more advanced. Therefore, technology is faster and more accurate now more than it was then. Christopher Columbus ships are slow and made for carrying cargo. The ships use sails to guide their way. If it they ran on…

There is no doubt that humans have influenced the environment. The evidence of our meddling can be found everywhere from anthropology to mathematics. No society is free of this burden, though some have a distinct impact apart from the whole. The current geological age is the Holocene, the time after the last Ice Age. The geologic period is typically determined by the largest influence on the Earth. Until the 1800’s, human impact on the planet had been relatively low- stable even. Around the time…

This year alone, the United States will consume 220 billion gallons of fuel for transportation alone. This humble nation that I live in relies so heavily on fossil fuels to survive. Almost every product that we use in our lives today depends on it, especially the ones that matter the most like our cars and electricity. Without this seemingly abundance source of raw power, the society would not be able to function. I sympathize with everyone who has to use fossil fuels in their everyday lives.…

Cooking with oils can be considered as one of the most common cooking techniques around the world. Within the process of cooking, heating with high temperatures is often applied to break down large polymeric food molecules and for easier absorption of nutrients by our guts. However, heating oil repeatedly with the presence of air, for certain period of time, might cause undesired chemical changes within the chemical characteristics of the oils, for example lipid oxidation, which is responsible…

Introduction Essential oils (EOs) are aromatic volatile liquids obtained from plant materials whether they are vascular plant or nonvascular plants including; buds, flowers, fruits, seeds, leaves, twigs, bark, wood ,roots and herbs. Citrus plants constitute one of the main essential oils sources (Burt, 2004; Hammer, 1999). They belong to Rutaceae family, which originated from tropical and subtropical south-eastern parts of the world (Sawamura, 2010). Citrus species were cultivated in China long…

publically traded, Canadian company, which earns money through investing in oil sands. It generates money by funding in Syncrude Joint Venture (a company that extracts and manufactures oil from oil sands). COS Ltd. was created in 1978, by PanCanadian Petroleum (currently known as Encana). Presently Canadian Oil Sands is being led by Ryan M. Kubik (the CEO), who also happens to be the director and chair board of Syncrude Joint Venture. Canadian Oil Sands used to be a very successful company in…

FACTORS The BP oil spill directly affected the health of the environment in very harmful ways. In an account of the environmental losses regarding the BP oil spill, a famous writer for the Washington Post, Kevin Nance (2015), illustrates a reflection of the consequences in the wake of this disaster: “We remember the giant oil slick burning on the water, blackening the beaches, clogging the marshlands, choking and killing the fish and wildlife.” Many forms of wildlife suffered throughout this…