Essays on Environmental Issues

For this year’s Research Report, I had decided to look into the issue of tribal whaling, under the topic – Human and other species. The allowance of tribal whaling has been repeatedly questioned across nations and cultures. The Makah has been hunting whales for at…

In the seminar conducted in the Earth and Space Science Department, Ralph Haugerud discusses “The Last Glaciation of NW Washington: hysteresis of a marine based ice sheet”. The main focus of this seminar was to talk about the retreat of the Juan de Fuca lobe…

It is evident that whaling and whale watching cannot co-exist. Whaling has no clear impact on fish stocks and has proven to be unprofitable and harmful of Iceland’s otherwise global image. The League of Nations raised concerns about the excessive killing of the whale stocks…

According to Greentumble, “Petroleum-based plastic bags take up to one thousand years or never to break down and degrade into the earth.” These are the plastic bags that you find in most grocery and shopping stores across the entire country. Therefore these bags can cause…

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency proposed to the Senate and House of Representatives by President Richard Nixon on July 9, 1970 via the signing of Reorganization Plan No. 3. In his message to Congress explaining his reasoning behind the…

Frontline’s War on the EPA documentary brings to light certain agenda setting approaches and policy legitimating challenges in the environmental policy arena. To give a little background, the documentary starts by outlining Obama era policies and what the overall environment was like for coal workers….

Imagine living in a world where it’s not as clean as you remember. All you can see is clear bottles lining the surface of your world, alongside a thick layer of filth including plastic bags, milk bottles and fellow ocean life struggling to inhabit the…

In the near future there may be a food security crisis. The United States Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO for short, claims that in 2016, roughly 11% of the world’s population went undernourished. In 30 years it is estimated that there will be over…

When food waste is dumped in landfill, it will produce decomposition odor, attract flies and pests, and may increase the biological oxygen demand (BOD) of leachate. The EU landfill directive and waste regulations are the same as those of other countries. The road from landfill…

Pollution has become one of the biggest problems facing all living things on earth. To begin with, is important to know the definition of “pollution”. This term means the manifestation of any unsolicited foreign substance in something. Ocean pollution also known as marine pollution is…