Environment Essays and Term Papers

New York's attorney-general, and William Galvin, Massachusetts' state regulator, started to poke around the trading practices of the mutual fund industry, the big players reacted resentfully. On Monday November 3rd, Lawrence Lasser was fired as chief…

of greenhouse gasses rise and less infrared light, or heat, escapes the earth's atmosphere. Thus, the temperature experienced on Earth begins to rise. Climate change is a part of the Earth's history. There have been dramatic fluctuations in overall…

fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyle." -Thomas Lovejoy, tropical biologist Now, more than ever, the Earth is going through a critical moment in which we…

advantages of keeping quiet what is happening in our forests. He realises incomes, creates jobs and maintain economical activity. He also prevent himself from receiving all sorts of critics. Public forest is a myth. Population cannot profit of the forest…

destruction of the earth's atmosphere due to air pollution, the immediate and direct harm caused to the human body is often over shadowed. While many are aware that our careless use of hazardous chemicals and fossil fuels may leave the planet uninhabitab…

population of the world has doubled in the last 40 years; in 1999, we welcomed the 6 billionth resident of Earth. In 1960, there were only 3 billion living human beings and prior to that the first time the human population eclipsed 1 billion people…

Many of these ways are damaging to the environment. Rubber tapping causes almost no damage to the rainforest. Rubber tapping takes the natural latex from the tree by scraping grooves into the surface of the tree. The natural latex then falls…

Plants Are nuclear power plants dangerous? In a word, yes, and Hanford is one of the oldest ones around, producing radiation since 1944. Radioactive materials emitted from a nuclear power plant, such as Hanford, can injure living tissue, and a…

Chapter 4 HW 1. Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with one another and with their nonliving environment. In effect it is a study of connections in nature. Ecologists focus on trying to understand the interactions between organisms, populati…

is described as the progressive gradual rise of the earth's surface temperature thought to be caused by the greenhouse effect and responsible for changes in global climate patterns. The greenhouse effect is the absorption of energy radiated from…