Essays on Natural Environment

‘The spatial patterning, structure, and functioning of most of the ecosystems of the world have been altered by the activities of humankind’ (Mooney and Cleland). Essentially, each individual ecosystem holds a fragile place in the world and must maintain a perfect balance with today’s society….

Invasive species can be described as any living organism, that overtakes a foreign area. They are not native to the ecosystem and can potentially cause harm. Some examples include plants, fungi, insects, or amphibians. In relation to the Humber River field trip, the issue of…

‘The spatial patterning, structure, and functioning of most of the ecosystems of the world have been altered by the activities of humankind’ (Mooney and Cleland). Essentially, each individual ecosystem holds a fragile place in the world and must maintain a perfect balance with today’s society….

In every ecosystem around the world, there are invasive species, whether they are animals or plants. Some species may be more harmful than others, but they are nevertheless detrimental to an ecosystem and the native species in them. Two specific invasive species that harm North…

In one of my major subjects back in college, I had the opportunity to learn about some of the works of one of Romantic Age’s major poet, William Wordsworth, who was also known as a Poet of Nature and in these sonnets the drastic changes…

For almost all engineering tasks it is necessary to optimize time and resources. There are trade-offs to be considered between maximizing performance, profit, sustainability, quality, safety and efficiency, and minimizing cost, energy consumption, defects, and environmental impact. Traditional approaches to solve these optimization problems have…

The key categories of green cover in the Kelani River Basin are the Forests, Home Gardens, Rubber and Tea plantations. However, this land use classification is not done at a high resolution and ground trothing is not used extensively in determining the exact canopy type….

Open any health textbook and look at the four main requirements that an organism needs for life: heat, pressure, food, and water. So why is something so necessary for life so unattainable for the people in Flint, Michigan? What has happened in Flint, A town…

The theme of Nature has been shown in all of the inclass readings, all have the theme of Nature. All three of these stories are engaged with the topic of wilderness. More so, The wilderness hunter in Where I Lived and What I lived for,…

An ​environmental value system​ (EVS for short) is a way of thinking that molds the way a person (or group of people) view an environmental issue such as pollution, climate change or deforestation… A system is defined by 3 factors: an ​input​, a ​process​, and…