Essays on Nature

“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody”Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities Twenty-five years ago, the city of homestead was in the center of a category five hurricane which…

One of the biggest challenges to projects focused on the capture and storage of CO2 is the cost. In situ mineral carbonation is quite a new concept but it’s very promising. Nevertheless, transport and storage costs of ISMC are still much higher when compared with…

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,…

Gotjawal has microclimate and maintains the temperature stable. Therefore, plants from temperate region and warm temperate zone can coexist. Biome: The Gotjawal has about 600 species of vascular plants, and it provides home and refuge for many kinds of birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians. Many…

This is the discussion of environmental sustainability and resilience objectives. They have been discussed in a manner that places each objective as a sub-topic, where answers of the three questions are answered under each objective sub-topic, which are their feasibility, current state of progress with…

If one were to ask ten different people what geography is you might get ten different answers. It is hard to define geography because it is hard to understand the complete scope of the discipline of geography. It is at the same time overwhelming and…

One of the world facts is that the earth is 71% water and 29% land. Man and many other organisms that live on land are adapted to live on land. However, life on earth is not limited to those of us living on land. The…

Typically, when considering ecological restoration, what comes to mind is the renewal and restoration of natural ecosystems and habitats that have been damaged, degraded, or destroyed by human intervention to their original, un-intervened form. However, recently published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, is a…

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…