Environment Essays and Term Papers

the ship's sails and rigging. It covered Conestoga wagons trudging west. According to legend, Betsy Ross stitched it into that famous flag, and Levi Strauss sewed it into the first pair of gold miner's jeans. Hemp was a cash crop for rope, twine,…

River, a biogeography region of the New World that stretches southward from the Tropic of Cancer and includes southern Mexico, Central and South America, and the West Indies. Specifically, the study site was conduced in the most southern part…

with disastrous effects. Each day this serious problem increases, many people believe that this issue is too small to deal with right now this issue should be met head on and solved before it is too late. In the following paragraphs I will be discussing…

24 million hectors of land. §19 million hectors go in to agriculture §1.7 million hectors go in to housing §Building, quarrying and waste disposal are some of the human activities that account for the rest of the land. §Each year quarrying produces…

wastes go into pits in the ground called landfills. There is a big problem with landfills in the UK filling up with disposable nappies. On average a baby goes through 6,000 nappies and Britain's parents throw away eight million disposables every day.…

population in the developing world) are living in uncertainty of their next full meal. And 1.85 x 108 million preschool children suffer compromised mental and physical development because of malnutrition. About 8 x 107 people are expected to be added…

need for greater food production for a growing world population, may be poisoning us all. Pesticides are vital tools in the production of food and fiber crops. However, as with any tool, their misuse can pose a threat to human health and environmental…

our world. It causes fish and plants to die in our waters. As well it causes harm to our own race as well, because we eat these fish, drink this water and eat these plants. It is a problem that we must all face together and try to get rid of. However…

a source for cod-liver oil. In the past cod have also formed a profitable fishery in the North Atlantic, to which England, France and Portugal all began to send boats yearly in the 16th century. Such fishing nowadays is still a very important part of…

good and bad. First I will tell you why I think that they can be good. One reason that zoo's are good because people get a chance to see animals that only live in certain parts of the world. A lot of cool animals live in other parts of the world…