Imagine you are a baby seal. You are on a piece of ice connected to Antarctica continent. Day by day, you see the bonds that are connecting the piece of ice on the continent melting, but you think it is no big deal. But one…
Essays on Environment Problems
There is a common understanding that whenever many individuals have access to and use a certain resource, there will undoubtedly be deterioration of this resource (Hardin 1968). The dire consequence of the over-usage of common resources has been coined, the tragedy of the commons. A…
Introduction American Samoa, also known as the “Motu o Fiafiaga” is a chamber of seven islands located in the Pacific, near the continent of Australia. Praised for its natural beauty, American Samoa’s secluded location has allowed only minimal foreign influences to impact its soil. These…
If we walk on the beach you will place a footprint on it and also when you walk on the mud you will place a mud footprint just like that though we do not see there is a carbon footprint we place on the earth…
Greenhouse gases (GHG) have become an area of concern throughout the world. GHG are gases that trap heat in our atmosphere. There are four main gases that do this with carbon dioxide (CO2) being the most prevalent. Every living thing on the planet contributes to…
A, 2018 study by a scientist, Katharine Hayhoe, found the seventeen warmest years on record, since 2001, sixteen of them have occurred. Climate change is a defining issue in our world today. The earth’s experiencing shifting weather patterns, rising sea levels that increase the risk…
Introduction As the world population continues to rise at an unprecedented rate, it brings along an increasing demand for nourishment to sustain it. This would result in further imbalances in the already intricate ecological systems as various nations attempt to stabilize their own populace. Fish…
Throughout our newest project on sustainability, I have decided to research about the dangers of overfishing. Overfishing is wrong and it should be stopped. According to Discovery News, overfishing is when too many fish are caught, that there isn’t enough fish to produce as much…
Fish have been included in billions of peoples’ diets for many years and the fish industry has become a lucrative job for many. In the last sixty years, overfishing– “catching too many fish at once, so the breeding population becomes too depleted to recover” has…
As our world has become more aware of conservation and sustainability, we have come to understand the importance of the environment and natural resources. Organizations and specific laws were made to protect what is essential to us, one of which being natural resources from the…
Overfishing is a problem that may be overlooked by many. However, this is a problem that needs to be addressed since its causing major problems for our environment. I will begin by discussing the problems that overfishing causes as well as proposing possible solutions. As…
The science behind global warming can go one of two ways, either it proves global warming or it doesn’t. It can be hard to know what is really true because there is data to prove either. We only have to study the day to day…
In the article The Most Important Number for the West’s Hideous fire season By Robinson Mayer, he explains through logos and pathos the effects climate change and california wildfires and climate change. Mayer makes an effective argument through logos as he had interviewed Daniel Swain,…
Coastal Areas are the 2% land area from the total earth surface that is vulnerable to climate change. Numan and Beatley has mentioned that the 10 % population of the world that mostly live in the largest cities such as Jakarta, Bangkok, London, Mumbai Shanghai,…
Climate change is a swift change in the earth’s normal weather patterns and when this change results to an unusual increase in the global temperatures, which lasts for even over a decade. An aspect that we can see arise from this change is global warming….
