Sulfur dioxide

NASCAR is one of the world’s most popular sports attracting millions of viewers every Sunday to watch their favorite drivers race hundreds of miles across the race track at intense speeds. Many people who love to tune in and watch the sport are not aware of the chemistry behind NASCAR. For the cars to be able to operate the way they do, a lot has to go into building them. Each track that is raced on brings different challenges to the race team whose job is trying to get their car to be the…

The film Toxic Soup by Rory Owen Delaney speaks to how everyday Americans fight to keep their blood, water and air safe from pollution. This video shows how corporations such as DuPont, Bayer, Ashland oil and Global contributed to polluting their local environments. The first company that the video talks about is DuPont, which is a chemical plant located in West Virginia. DuPont was found to be contaminating water near their plant with C8. The C8 found in the water was known to cause…

Toronto can position itself as a city with a higher quality of living than its competition, most notably its American competition such as Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia. It is home to the third largest public transportation system in North America, enabling residents to go without a car if they so choose. This drastically decreases the city’s pollution providing better breathing air for its residents. The buses are electric hybrids and there is a public smoking ban which further contributes…

Logan Flom Mr. Moon Language/Literature 9 24 November 2015 Everest’s Environmental Exigency Mt. Everest is a colossal landmark, standing at an extraordinary 8,848 meters, or 29,029 feet above sea level. Since the peak of Mt. Everest reaches so far into the sky, it is almost unconceivable to imagine that there is a major complication at the so called “top of the world”. This problem is pollution, and it is getting worse every day. One of the many pollution problems on Mt. Everest is the…

Research Paper In the past 114 years, an abundance of the Earth’s species have gone extinct due to deforestation, and humans are mostly responsible. Environmentalist Ed Begely Jr, also a well know actor, said “I don’t understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something created by nature we call it progress.” (Begely,1). Deforestation is a global issue that impacts a wide range, including human and animal life ultimately leading to the…

Earth day and environmentalism of the poor both created institutions to promote their respective values and objectives. For example, Adam Rome explains in his presentation The Genius of Earth Day, “ Out of Earth Day comes national lobbying organization, one of them directly tied to earth day… many had been ad hoc groups that stayed in business” (Around 11:30 mins). The fact that earth day was followed by a “decade of environmental legislation” (Rome, Around 11:00 mins), shows these…

Renewable energy vs Fossil fuels The earth has been around for a copious amount of years. Everyday people affect the earth in both a positive and negative way. The most common way of producing energy is by the use fossil fuels. The use of fossil fuels can have a major impact on the earth’s environment. For instance, oil spills, global warming, etc. While some difference between fossil fuels and renewable energy are evident, the similarities are sometimes overlooked. Many of the devices people…

Bonobo Habitat Threatened by Human Activity and Forest Loss - As human populations grow and spread, clearing patches of forest along the way, the habitat of one of mankind's closest living relatives is shrinking - avoids areas of high human activity and forest fragmentation and that as little as 28 percent of the bonobo's range remains suitable for living. - human activities reduce the amount of effective bonobo habitat and will help us identify where to propose future protected areas for this…

The individual learns by observing the behavior of others and evaluation the apparent consequences in order to make a behavioral decision. The Helmet safety campaign uses three individuals in their campaign, two without helmets and one with a helmet. The first two suffered from injuries that could have been avoided if they were wearing helmets. The last campaign picture was a woman wearing a helmet showing that she did not sustain any injuries because of the helmet. Statistics show that when…

countries since this policy have benefits and drawbacks. According to Baranzini et al. (2000, cited in Lin and Li, 2011), one of the benefits is that carbon tax encourages the polluters (firms and households that contribute the production of carbon dioxide) to substitute the use of fuel products which results in changes of the structure of energy production and consumption. Moreover, it generates energy efficiency; higher tax will drive the polluters to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels…