Alex Ibarra ENG 150-274 December 12‚ 2012 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Living on this earth is a privilege and unfortunately we sometimes take advantage of it. Stories of deforestation‚ air and water pollution really make a person think of just how much our planet is being harmed. A major concern is water pollution. Water covers at least 70 percent of the planet which makes our rivers‚ lakes‚ and oceans essential. Many of these bodies of water are being polluted and although they may be
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Imagine not being able to lay down‚ turn around‚ or even move. Imagine hard wires digging into the skin that covers legs‚ stomachs‚ and backs. That is what elephants experience almost daily in circuses and zoos. In the wild‚ elephants can walk up to thirty miles a day. In circuses‚ elephants spend almost twenty-three hours every day chained up. Many elephants experience great hardships. One cannot imagine being taken away from their mother at a tender‚ young age. However‚ almost all infantile elephants
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The Spratly Islands are a group of more than 750 reefs‚[2] islets‚ atolls‚ cays and islands in the South China Sea. The archipelago lies off the coasts of the Philippines and Malaysia (Sabah)‚ about one third of the way from there to southern Vietnam. They comprise less than four square kilometers of land area spread over more than 425‚000 square kilometers of sea. The Spratlys are one of three archipelagos of the South China Sea which comprise more than 30‚000 islands and reefs and which complicate
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Most people don’t know that Hawaii is the most endangered species capital of the world and is .02% land mass of the United States‚ but has ¼ of its endangered species. Protecting Hawaiian Native Plants means keeping the endangered plants in Hawaii safe. Also preserving it for future generations. However most of the Hawaiian plants are endemic and only found in Hawaii‚ nowhere else in the world. There are thousands of ways to protect the Hawaiian native plants‚ but one way to help protect the plants
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including more than 1‚200 fish‚ 200 birds‚ 1‚400 mollusks‚ 1‚500 crustaceans‚ 4 sea turtles and 29 marine mammals.” (12) 14 of the species were already protected by the U.S. federal government‚ and the spill continued to threaten 39 more species. The timing of BP’s oil spill is particularly devastating to the Gulf ecosystem because it is the peak spawning and nesting season for many species of fish‚ birds‚ turtles and marine mammals. Many species remain in long-established breeding areas during this
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Human Affect on Wildlife How would you feel if someone came into your home and completely destroyed it? We‚ humans‚ are becoming increasingly more dangerous to our own environment‚ and with that comes negative effects on out wild life. Animals are getting fatal diseases‚ losing their habitat‚ and ultimately‚ losing their lives. We are not only endangering the animals‚ but ourselves as well. We cannot survive without the animals on earth. “They do two times more for us than all of the industries
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the future usability of the resource. Living resources are renewable‚ minerals and fossil fuels are non-renewable. Wildlife conservation is the preservation‚ protection‚ or restoration of wildlife and their environment‚ especially in relation to endangered and vulnerable species. All living non-domesticated animals‚ even if bred‚ hatched or born in captivity‚ are considered wild animals. Wildlife represents all the non-cultivated and non-domesticated animals living in their natural habitats. Our own
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Recently‚ I watched the movie Tapped and it points out many interesting things. Water companies don’t have to give their condition reports of their water to the public while tap water is constantly regulated by the EPA. Another thing it pointed out was just how many contaminants are found in bottled water. There are many hazardous things in the bottles that people drink from everyday and most of us don’t realize how dangerous this is to us. It also pointed out the damage that these bottles have on
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Threats to Biodiversity: Habitat loss is mainly due to human population growth‚ industrialization and changes in the land use patterns‚ poaching of wild life and man wildlife conflicts. Man has begin to overuse or misuse most of these natural ecosystems. Due to unsustainable resource-use‚ once productive forests and grasslands have been turned into deserts and wastelands have increased all over world. Scientists have estimated that human activities are likely to eliminate approximately 10 million
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Jason Watts English 4 3/8/2013 Global Warming What are people doing to reduce global warming around the world? There are lots of questions that people don’t know about global warming. Global warming has become the big issue for environmental reasons. Corporations and individuals around the world are discussing the dangers of global warming. They are trying to find out ways to fix this problem and come up with a good solution. Global warming has become the most difficult problem that is facing
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