Category: Environmental Issues

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What influences an individuals perspective or approach to social issues in a global context? Considering this, in the assigned reading, The Forest, Trees, and The One Thing” by Johnson, he states that we are succumbed by this idea that everything starts and ends with individuals. With this thought, its likely that one would view social…

Water is the most essential element on the earth. All life needs water. As plants also need water to sustain life. Not only does the biological role water plays, but it is also trapping heat on earth, transports materials, and modulates the earth’s temperature. Water plays a vital role in life without any doubt. But…

Introduction Among the different definitions of ecosystem services that emerged, the most widely used version is that of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA). It defined the term as the benefits people obtain from ecosystems (MEA, 2003a, p.53). This definition recognized the interdependence of humans and other species with nature (Costanza et al., 2017). It also…

What did the Indus Civilization, the ancient Egyptian civilization, and the ancient Mesopotamian civilization have in common? They were all built near or around a continuous source of water. If one were to look back in the annals of history, we would see that throughout the progression of human society, water was always close by…

Water covers more than seventy (70) percent of the earth’s surface. Water is in the oceans, rivers, lakes, ground, and even in the air we breathe. Humans can live without food for up to two months but can only live for a week without water. Our body is seventy (70) percent water, and as such…

Desalination refers to the process of removing waste, salts, minerals, and other contaminants in different types of water converting it into safe potable, and usable water for it to be safe for human consumption. Desalination involves either brackish or sea to treat with the objective to produce fresh water. It is also called desalting because…

Abstract Water Footprint has evolved as a new integrative field of research, which focuses on the examination of water use, scarcity, and pollution, in the context of production, consumption, and trade of water-intensive goods and services. It includes the examination of how different methods of conservation, proficiency and practices, policy schemes, and governance can contribute…

To start off, I am going to tell you what a volcano is, what they do, what’s their purpose, how they have formed what types of volcanoes they are, and their anatomy along with the material within and intrusive bodies so that way you know the ins-and-outs of volcanoes and what their purpose serves on…

When we think about the essentials of life, water is one of the first things that comes to our minds. When we find water and wherever we see water flowing we are sure to find life and so the question that has come up many times over the years in regard to the essentials for…