It remains uncertain, therefore, that the Exxon Valdez spill was not, in fact, larger in scale and scope than the Horizon disaster. Conclusion: The Horizon disaster, as it bears noting, helps to demonstrate how little has truly changed in two deca Continue Reading...
Cetacean Skeletons at Local Museums Right Whale Skeleton Exhibit, Great Mammal Room, Harvard Museum of Natural History After visiting the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, I was left in awe by the amazing displays featuring fully int Continue Reading...
Pacific Garbage patch, as it's often referred to, exists between the U.S. mainland and Hawaii. Many estimates put its size at over two times larger than the state of Texas (Zhang, Zhang, Feng, and Yang, 2010). Much of this waste is composed of plast Continue Reading...
Dubai should be thinking about sustainability, since the seaport expansion and modernization has been damaging to the environment over the past decade. AS more and more ships begin to use the Dubai port, and as commerce and economic activity return Continue Reading...
Vertebrates It is common knowledge that the human body consists of about 65% water. People cannot live any longer than five days without H20. Individuals of all ages love to sail the oceans, swim in the sea and soar under or speed across the waves. Continue Reading...
" (Ware, 35) The PHB is a high weight polymer that is used for energy storage and carbon storage by a large number of microorganisms. PHB is synthesized and degraded by a lot of organisms and is said to be the most economic alternative to petrochemic Continue Reading...
Water Pollution Water is the most precious environmental asset and natural resource on earth. Approximately seventy percent of the earth's surface is covered by water and it affects every facet of life and ecology. However, despite this obvious and Continue Reading...
Aguirre, Alonso et al. “Infectious Disease Monitoring of the Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal.” Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 40.2 (2007): 229-241. This article seeks to monitor infectious diseases afflicting endangered Hawaiian monk seals. Continue Reading...
Strategic Framework in BP-Deepwater horizon accident One of the most eminent names in the oil and gas industry is British Petroleum, considered as the largest provider of oil and gas to its customers for transportation, energy for heating and light Continue Reading...
They can also enable countries to become more self-reliant rather than relying on international sources of energy. In these five ways, dams may prove very beneficial to countries utilizing them. Many cities that build dams take advantage of damns a Continue Reading...
Air Pollution and Acid Rain Acid rain is now commonly perceived as a major environmental threat but the term is still relatively new and many are confused about its causes. While there are some other commonly cited reasons including natural sources, Continue Reading...
This method makes effective use of ability of metals to float on surfaces of leachates on their own. Due to the high proven efficiency of this method, it is widely used for removal of heavy metals such as iron and humic acid from leachates in many p Continue Reading...
In the absence of proper waste management laws and regulations, as well as poor enforcement of existing waste disposal laws, an increase in the number of manufacturing entities would inevitably increase instances of water pollution. According to Goe Continue Reading...
Rawl confessed that it was "bad judgement involved in even putting a person with a critical skill back in that kind of work...It is pretty clear we have to tighten those things up" (Loeb pp). When asked what advice he had for other CEOs, Rawl state Continue Reading...
A) The Amur leopard is considered to be critically endangered as per population data maintained by the World Wildlife Fund. This particular cat is mainly found in the Russian Far East and is known to be largely solitary. As of the year 2007, there we Continue Reading...
high concentration of road salt on lead solubility. The paper describes the impact in the light of several academic articles and the observations from them. Total 8 academic articles have been reviewed and out of them some major findings are used as Continue Reading...
The sediments that are deposited in the stream cover up these areas, sometimes even entombing young fish and eggs." (DEP, 2008) The lack of vegetation also does not act as a sieve to capture the soil. Muddy water also created an environment where t Continue Reading...
Loss of Biodiversity Biodiversity Loss and Mitigation This essay will discuss the environmental citizenship concept and the different theoretical debates in the context of loss of biodiversity as well as its mitigation: In our society, the life of Continue Reading...
Kennedy announced the formation of a special government group to investigate the use and control of pesticides under the direction of the President's Science Advisory Committee (Rachel pp). The book caused a firestorm of public outrage and sold more Continue Reading...
While on one hand, the Nile gets the highest discharge from rainfall on the highlands of Ethiopia and upland plateau of East Africa, located well outside the Middle East region; on the other hand, discharge points of the other two rivers, Euphrates Continue Reading...
city regions only. The overriding theme of the greenbelt policy around the cities as applies to entire world is discussed. Advantages of green belts around cities The provision of cleaner air as facilitated by the trees is discussed. The facilit Continue Reading...
South African Fisheries and the Approaches Needed to Solve Them. The purpose of this paper is to show a current South African issue about policy problems and the official or department that does something about it. This work then produces the neces Continue Reading...
Gelineau reports that "the 755-foot (230-meter) Shen Neng 1 was successfully lifted off the reef Monday after crews spent three days pumping fuel to lighten it. Salvage crews later towed it to an anchorage area near Great Keppel Island, 45 miles (70 Continue Reading...
So far, this is not the case, and oil companies only pay royalties on production. This is another area under scrutiny in the MMS scandal. There are reports, dating back to 2008, that the royalty offices of the MMS, located in Denver, routinely accep Continue Reading...
The narrowness is from the singular focus of each position: regulatory issues and scientific study. The span of control for the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Operations and the Director International Affairs is narrow but deep. The director of Continue Reading...
Water Scarcity The World Water Council estimates that approximately 1.1 billion people, which translates to one-sixth of the world population, lacks access to safe drinking water. Another 2.6 billion lack access to proper sanitation facilities (Worl Continue Reading...
These and other concerns associated with wind energy development are discussed below, and are addressed in the Wind Energy Development Programmatic EIS. To get more information about these concerns and access current research, please visit the sugge Continue Reading...
Atlantic Blue fin tuna is a part of the Scombridae family and its scientific name is Thunnus Thynnus. It is also known as Northern Blue fin tuna and is closely related to the Pacific blue fin tuna and the Southern blue fin tuna. They are a highly evo Continue Reading...
Managing Fisheries and How Perceptions Affect the Management of Ecosystem Services Provided by Fisheries in the Pacific Ocean Carl Safina is the host of the Public Broadcasting Service 'Saving the Ocean" and as well has written several books and at Continue Reading...
This is often aggravated by insufficient renewal to the freshwater aquifer, which often occurs in times of drought (Ryan, 2008). Unfortunately saltwater intrusion can't be stopped, but the rate at which it occurs needs to be slowed. A management pl Continue Reading...
Political / Environmental Economics The Gloucester Crisis: Environmentalists VS Fishermen? Or: Depletion of Fisheries VS Fishermen Postponing Reality? When the spectacularly dramatic movie, "The Perfect Storm," became a box office smash a few year Continue Reading...
The polar bears' most frequent spot is the area where ice meets the water as it makes it easier for them to hunt seals from the water in Arctic ice. Hence, Polar bears are particularly specialized for the life at the Arctic and he spends most of his Continue Reading...
Your initiative in merging activities between Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), Conservation International (CI), and the Harold K.L. Castle Foundation (HKL Castle) and in creating the Fisheries Enforcement Units will help sustain Hawa Continue Reading...
Additionally, conservationists suggest increasing patrols to improve overall enforcement of existing laws, better boundary demarcation, and the development of stronger hunting quotas. All of these measures require significant and lasting funding. C Continue Reading...
Remote sensing can be utilized in order to give succinct information regarding the arrangement and the constituents of coral reef materials. The biological and physical attributes of the water bodies in which the coral reefs exist are monitored over Continue Reading...
9% of the turtles" -- and "plastics" dominated the debris found (Katsanevakis, p. 75). The list of plastic trash found in those turtles is too long to include in this research. Seabirds (especially pelicans, gannets and gulls) often fall prey to "mo Continue Reading...
Despite the significance or importance of the microbes, they remain unseen in the context of daily activities or human experiences. They grow and live almost everywhere through application of wide range of resources in comparison to the plants and a Continue Reading...
The plan would be the result of the scientific method, through which the impacts and causes of the current environmental problems would be addressed. Additionally, the scientific method would sit at the basis of the future actions to be taken. Thes Continue Reading...
The 1980s (the period when Ronald Reagan was the U.S. President) witnessed a series of government measures targeting environmental regulations. This resulted in public outrage against the anti-environmental policies of the government leading to a re Continue Reading...
