Essays on Ecology

Although, that cannot be the answer to this problem, there are tons and tons of plastic trash that need to be removed from the Atlantic ocean, and having this mentality is not proactive anywhere. As citizens of this earth, we must treat the North Atlantic garbage patch like the Greater Pacific garbage patch. Two known organizations have led the initiative are for the Great Pacific garbage patch is The Garbage Patch at UNESCO and The Ocean Cleanup. Maria Cristina Finnuci,…...

The planet that we currently live on has been around for almost five billion years. In that time it has done a lot for its inhabitants. It’s given us natural resources and given us the ability to multiply and fill the planet. We as a race are constantly helping advance the earth’s natural decay by polluting the air around us. We also have helped in progressing global warming which is taking away other habitats for other species. We as a…...

“In 2008, a study found that approximately 35% of the fish studied had ingested plastic, averaging 2.1 pieces per fish.” (OceanUnitelp) Around 34 years ago, a group of surfers grouped together and formed the Surfrider Foundation, an organization dedicated to bringing awareness to protect the oceans and beaches all over the world. The Surfrider foundation created and posted the following ad to bring awareness to the effects of our pollution especially in the ocean. The message of the ad is…...

The Puget Sound is a well known and well loved destination for anything from boating to scuba diving. Many people make their homes near or on its waters, while others look to it as the source of their livelihood. Salmon swim in it every year, chased by seals. Oysters grow and harden their shells on its shores. The Puget Sound houses massive amounts of aquatic life, from tiny microplankton all the way up to huge killer whales. With the importance…...

The purpose of this academic paper is to analyze the effect of the human behaviors on the marine environment and marine animals. This paper's task is to advocate and to create awareness of these activities to the people. In order for them to have attention towards letters, facts, and pieces of knowledge in order to generate an image in the attention of the consumers that will raise the ideas and image so that it would be easier for the readers…...

Jacques Cousteau; a French undersea explorer and researcher once said, 'Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.' Many of the plastics humans use in their daily life most likely will be used and thrown away carelessly. Today pounds of plastic can be found swirling around the ocean, making up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surface. Researchers at Ocean Conservatory say, 'So much plastic is ending up in the…...

Pollution affects the food we eat. Heavy metals and other harmful chemicals can collect on many marine animals and those same animals, especially seafood, can end up on our dinner tables if not already killed by the contaminants. More than one-third of the United States shellfish-growing waters are affected by coastal pollution. Of all the different types of wastes in the ocean, plastics are the most common type. Being 60-80% of all ocean litter and over 90% of all floating…...

It is usually a saying that people might never understand, but the truth is that no life could be there on earth without the presence of water. Water occupies the most substantial part of the surface of the earth and plays a vital role in the survival of human beings. Taking care of both natural and artificial reservoirs of water is very crucial. They include dams, lakes, rivers, oceans, and even seas. Regardless of whether the water present somewhere is…...

Abstract Non-conventional power sources are freely available from nature and is available in abundant quantity. Given the drawbacks of its counterpart conventional sources of coal and fossil fuels are on verge of extinction and creates pollution, more and more research is done on the non-conventional or renewable sources like solar, wind, tidal, etc. With this project we plan to introduce a new way of harnessing wind power, hydro power and ocean power from a single pole inside an ocean. One…...

Introduction The ocean is the source of life for our planet. Many people just take the Ocean for granted, thinking it is a pretty place to take pictures or to dump our wastes. But when we look much deeper we can see that the Ocean does so much for our world in so many ways. Let’s take a look and see just how the ocean affects you and me on an everyday basis that goes beyond what our eyes can…...

Abstract Utilization of nuclear energy in general is an action or step that is very advanced if it can manage and develop optimally and well. Indonesia through the government has also planned to use nuclear energy as a power plant. However, on the other hand this plan has varied impacts as well. Because, when viewed from the actual quality of Indonesia can realize the use of Nuclear as a source of energy for power generation. Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is…...

Abstract In the past few decades, the world has experienced several instances of extreme temperature changes. Such periods, especially when the change is a significant rise, are what are referred to as Heat waves. They sometimes are accompanied by high humid conditions especially when the regions affected are characterized by an oceanic climate. Temperature measures have to be gauged in relation to the conditions which are considered normal in order to establish the presence of a heat wave (Robinson, Peter…...

As more people sought refinement in society to pursue a better quality of life, different types of law and change impacted many countries to develop into a more suitable governmental system. Different reforms such as the English Glorious Revolution or the collapse of the Soviet Union drastically changed how society worked for people and therefore created different outcomes. While it may not be the 'perfect' for everyone, most of these changes are still held until today. Before these reforms happened…...

Personally my view on genetic engineering is that it’s good. Here are some reasons why. First of all many people in the world have heart problems that are passed down from generations to generation, and it’s not getting any better due to the fact it might be a dominant gene in the gene line. Well guess what, we can stop that and eradicate completely using CRispr. Crispr is the machine that takes out our replaces genes. Meaning we could take…...

INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OF ATOMIC:[footnoteRef:2] [2: Marion J. Harronnternational Control of Atomic Energy,132,1946.] This is a force that has a great danger of catastrophe in the wrong hands. At the same time, it has a great promise of a better life in the right hands. Everyone must clearly understand what it implies. Atomic power is so overwhelming that most people have difficulty seeing how it affects their daily lives. But the fact is that the future of each one of us…...

A developing country, as we know, is less established both industrially, economically, and tends to have a lower population compared to other nations. Some of these nations are both large and small and have been affected by wars both physically and politically for generations. These struggles have affected the fate of their countries for decades and have allowed for little development. A developed country, in today’s time, is one that has a strong economy with a huge technological influence. Their…...

The Accuracy of the Fallout Games “Blue Moon” plays in the background. Or maybe “Uranium Rock”. It’s trying to find you. Its eyesight is poor, but one wrong move, one cracked stick could be your downfall. You can hear its breathing, labored from sprinting for its meal. You’ve got one final bullet left in your rifle. You know it’s not going to be enough. Running is always an option. But how much of a chance do you have against this…...

Busting Climate Change with Nuclear Energy One of the biggest threats to humanity’s existence is climate change. Climate change is essentially the slow warming of the earth’s climate that results in significant ecological changes that can be devastating. For instance, island nations in the Pacific Ocean are being threatened with total extinction due to submersion by rising water levels caused by warming of the glaciers at the pole arctic. Climate change has been happening for millions of years and in…...

If I had all resource and time, I will focus on developing a Self-powered generator that produces electricity. For many years and decades, united states have been using most of its energy produced by nuclear power plants together with fossil-fuel which poses a lot of dangers to our next generation. In spite of the high-level of a style of protection methods of nuclear power plants, human being position has at all times been the influence. Confronting an unexpected occurrence or…...

If a Nuclear war were to happen, there would be serious consequences. From High Altitude Dust to Ozone to Global Warming to Mass Extinction, the earth will never be the same. In a 10,000 Megaton war, with half of all the nuclear weapons exploding at ground level, some 25 billion cubic meters of rock and soil would be torn up. This would send a substantial amount of dust particles into the atmosphere; around twice the volume of material from the…...

I don't know why nuclear energy has a bad rap, mainly it is because there are misconceptions about the safety of it and when people are uneducated they tend to fight against what is actually very beneficial. Nuclear energy is energy that is released either by splitting atomic nuclei or by forcing the nuclei of atoms together. Nuclear energy comes from mass-to-energy transitions that occur during atom splitting. This explains the well-known mathematical formula of Albert Einstein E = mc2.…...

On April 26th 1986, the world witnessed one of the most catastrophic accidents in history that took place in Pripyat, Ukraine when the No. 4 reactor was being tested for safety. The reactor became unstable at low power due to a lethal flaw in design, but little to the knowledge of the operators that night, they removed the boron rods as well to power it up again. The series of blunders caused the reactor to explode through the roof and…...

On March 11, 2001, an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 on the Richter scale hit Tohoku, Japan, the biggest earthquake in the history of the country. Along with over 15,000 deaths, the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami caused significant damage to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear plants (Oskin, 2017). The radiation leaks from the damaged plants led to the immediate evacuation of residents within 20 km of the area and those within 20-30 km were highly suggested to stay inside…...

When individuals come forward with their personal experiences of pain and suffering, their bodies are turned into social and political instruments by larger, more powerful, entities: the medical authorities and the government. They are no longer individuals living in horrible situations but empirical objects to be analyzed and studied. So, as an empirical body of study, Petryna, in her book, analyzes the body as individual, social, and political. She interviews people suffering in the Zone, medical professionals, and examines the…...

The following sample essay on "Study on Environmental Sustainability ": is a depth study on environmental sustainability through green business practices in real estate. Ranging from commercialized businesses, governments, and other regulatory bodies to citizens all over the world have shown concerns about the challenges of global warming. This has led companies to revise their business activities as well as the concept of green business has grown over some time. Green business, also alternatively known as environmental business along with…...

The following sample essay on "Health Care Issues in the Community": the world day by day deteriorates and is damaged more, to the degree of seeming an irreversible and irreparable situation. Since the beginning of time, human beings have been characterized by their great ingenuity, first elaborating tools for their survival, which according to the passage of time we're able to supply the immediate necessities. From the moment the human race recognized its capabilities, there have been significant but still…...

The following sample essay on "Sustainable Eating": how sustainable food and eating can help our environment. Calculations made by the Ecological Footprint, a way of measuring and quantifying sustainability, indicate that humans are currently using the equivalent of 1.6 planets to provide the resources they consume. (Tom Beer, Jianping Li, Keith Alverson-2018). If humanity continues on this projected path, we will begin to see devastating and irreversible changes to our planet; the luxury of time is no longer on our…...

The following sample essay on "Water Quality ":a story about the impact of pollution on water quality. Water Quality Cassidy is a necessity for all life. The average person uses 80-100 gallons of water each day (USGS, n.d.). We wash our hands, bathe, drink, flush toilets, and cook with water. We even use it to grow our food and livestock. So how do we know if the water is not contaminated with dangerous toxins? In the 1970’s the United States…...

The following sample essay on "Marine Pollution and Its Effect on The Thermal Capacity of Seawater": how water pollution affects the environment. The findings of this study indicate that as expected the natural albedo of seawater is susceptible to positive and negative forcing by pollution and natural agents. A comparison of oil and gas pollutants showed inverse temperature change profiles, with the oil sample heating more rapidly and cooling more slowly than seawater, while the plastic sample heated slower and…...

The following sample essay on "Marine Pollution": an Analysis of Marine Pollution and its Consequences in Humanity’s Future Introduction Ocean pollution is a defining crisis of the twenty-first century. Considering even only the last decade, disasters such as the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill—one that leaked more than 200 million gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, have already caused irreparable damage to our biosphere. Additionally, the millions of tons of trash, oil, fertilizer, sewage, and toxic chemicals that…...

The following sample essay on "Industrial Disasters": how industrial disasters affect natural disasters. Introduction A disaster can strike at any time without any warning, natural disasters such as earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc are unavoidable. But the manmade disasters can be prevented and mitigated somehow. Industrial disasters are the worst of the kind because they cannot only ruin the reputation of the company but also many employees can lose their lives in the process. Some of these disasters can have a…...

The following sample essay on "Disaster Recovery Plan ": discusses a full Disaster Recovery Plan that should be submitted to the executive board of a company. The strategies are in such a way that can apply to an entire class or group to subside the damage levels. Introduction: A strategy that is resulted by an institute or group to serve in the revival or defense from a disaster that may be natural or man-made is typically called disaster recovery. In…...

The following sample essay on "Modern Technologies And Natural Disasters": how the development of technology can lead to natural disasters. Throughout this second half of the semester in Technology in Society, we discussed many exciting issues dealing with technology. Some of them are how technology affects social institutions, social response, and how it can even cause environmental issues. Social institutions go hand in hand with technology. Without technology, there wouldn’t be as much communication or information access in these social…...

The following sample essay on "Climate And Natural Disasters": talks about the impact of climate change on natural disasters. In January 2017, the U.S. ‘“National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that 2017 had been the warmest year on record, marking the third year in a row that this had occurred’’(Supporters Argue: Government Should Take Action to Combat Climate Change 1). In the later part of the 1800s, scientists began to notice the Earth was on the rise. As fossil fuels…...

The following sample essay on "Floods in Texas": is a story about natural disasters in Texas and why they occur. June 1st is the official start of hurricane season. Tropical Storm Amanda is approaching and moving north onto Texas. It developed near Campeche in southern areas of the Gulf of Mexico in the first week of June and will make its way North. The last major tropical storm that hit Texas was Hurricane Harvey in 2017. “The storm killed nearly…...

The following sample essay on "Recycling Garbage At Home": how to sort and recycle garbage yourself. Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. It is an alternative to “conventional” waste disposal that can save material. Recycling can prevent the waste of potentially useful materials and reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, thereby reducing: energy usage, air, pollution, and water pollution. Recyclable materials include many kinds of glass, paper, cardboard, metal, plastic, tires, and…...

The following sample essay on "Food Processing": how to recycle food waste and food packaging. Between 20% to 40% of fruit and vegetables are rejected by supermarkets as waste before they even are placed on the store shelves (OVO Energy, 2013). Waste is regarded as any substance, material, or object, that is unwanted, rejected, abandoned, discarded or disposed of, or that of intended or required to be discarded or disposed of by the holder of the substance, material, or object,…...

The following sample essay on "Electronic recycling": to know more about how advantageous it is to recycle electronic waste, let us look at the below points. Electronic waste includes different kinds of gadgets like laptops, printers, and such. Also, you can find various equipment which is mostly dumped inside water or land. However, it is better to recycle such waste. This is because they produce non-biodegradable substances that are poisonous. Many organizations can help you with the same such as…...

The following sample essay on "Cardboard Recycling": essential benefits of recycling cardboard. Approximately ninety percent of the components delivered throughout the world are boxed in cardboard. An enormous supply of it is tossed into the garbage and ends up in the land waste dump. Neighborhoods around the world are attempting to recycle cardboard to secure the surroundings and minimize the volume of garbage in dumping grounds. Many should consider the benefit of salvaging cardboard boxes or other cardboard materials for…...

The following sample essay on "How Does Recycling Affect The Environment?": filmmaking and the preservation of the environment. Introduction The Personal Project is a new and exciting outlet for me as I have never made a project or a work of mine that has to be this extensive. It is very major to choose a topic that I am interested in. The topic has to enrich my knowledge and show off my capabilities. Since the project has to involve my…...