Essays on Ecology

Rapid urbanization and industrialization are leading to the environmental degradation such as deforestation. As a result natural disaster is becoming more extreme and the losses of lives and properties also increasing in a large amount. So, an effective step is necessary to minimize the effect…

Single use plastic is currently giving itsself a bad name in headlines all over the globe. Although its hard to deny its convenience in the hectic modern world in which we live, it is also hard to look past the consequences of not desposing of…

The study having examined the benefits will attempt to also identify the threats of over-fishing, hypoxia, pollutions and climate change that led to habitat destructions, depletion of species, eutrophication, hypoxia, and coastal inundation. Over-fishing Over-fishing has dire impact on the ecosystem which results in habitat…

Introduction The world is stunned by the ferocity of wildfires, heatwaves, storms and floods causing havoc and destruction of coastal habitats, devastation of social life, and biodiversity, as a consequence of what humans put or take from the ocean unsustainably undermining the benefits of the…

Growing up, my parents religiously watched CBC News. To avoid living in a bubble, they were keen on staying informed about events happening all over the world. Naturally, as I got older, my interest in global issues become more prominent as well. Watching the news…

Plastics used to be an indispensable part of our lives and we use them every day. However, the world’s attitude towards plastic took a change overnight in 2015, when a viral video of a plastic straw being pulled out of a sea turtle’s nose took…

Pollution of farm land is ubiquitous in oil producing regions. The intent of this study was to evaluate the influence of various hydrocarbons on soil catalase as well as dehydrogenase activity. The experiment was consisting of known amount of soil treated with varying amounts of…

The goal of this paper is to establish the importance of Human Resource transformation and how it is evolving into much more than just assisting personnel. Traditional roles and responsibilities are vastly changing in the Human Resource departments to accommodate the ever so changed work…

The term, chemicals of emerging concern, has newly been brought to the public’s attention because of the recent research which has shown that pharmaceuticals in the planets waterways and soil isn’t natural whether done on purpose or accidently. The research spans over the last 100…

The aquatic ecosystem health can be severely affected by municipal wastewater effluents (MWWE) which contain complex mixtures of domestic, municipal and industrial origins (Bennie, 1999; Holeton et al. , 2011; Metcalfe et al. , 2003, 2010; Servos et al. , 2003, 2005). The MWWE include…