Environmental Sciences Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (1,048) essays
Environmental Science essays:
Can We Say "NO" To Recycling
... argumentative essay. It shows the pros and cons of recycling.BUT there is one big problem the Works Cited(Documentation Citation) is Lost. Went to Distinction. Showed it to the next class . Dr. Nadia El-Kholy. English 113. Tamer Wadid Shalaby. Final Draft Paper. Can We Say 'NO' To Recycling ...
Biological Weapon Effects on Biological Diversity.
... delivery technologies or methods are necessary for clandestine, economically targeted bioweapons attacks on agricultural crops or livestock" (Dudley 584). In 1887, an epidemic outbreak of the Rinderpest virus killed nearly 95% of wildebeest, cattle and African buffalo. (Dudley ...
Interesting facts and history on the Mississippi River.
... Mississippi River, is one of the longest in the world. According to the United States Army Corps of Engineers, if it is measured from the Upper Red Rock Reservoir which leads to its longest branch, the Missouri the Mississippi flows 3,658 miles to the Head of Passes in the delta. From Lake Itasca ...
Bottled Water.
... and is shared by many. With the cost of local bottled water approaching two dollars a bottle, it would be cheaper just to install a home filtration system that ran with tap water. Consumers tend to spend two hundred and ...
Does the commonly used herbicide "2, 4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid" cause destruction of aquatic organisms, especially the Brown Planarian?
... United States of America over 69 percent of the available water is used for agriculture and 8 percent is used for domestic uses. Sewage, industrial waste and agricultural chemicals such as herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers are the main point of water pollution. In the year of ...
Energy future
... of the land today used for crops and pasture could supply the world's total energy consumption. A similar area is used today for hydropower, as the electricity yield per unit area of a solar collector is 50-100 times that of ...
Water, a sustainable resource.
... and meter testing, repair, and replacement Reduction in use and increase in recycling of industrial water More than 70 %of the Earth's surface is covered by water. The oceans and seas contain 97 % of all the water on the planet. Less than 3 % of ...
The peat debate: should peat bogs be utilised as a resource or conserved as rare natural habitats?
... of peat bogs means that they have little resistance to external disturbance, are vulnerable to edge effects and are often hydrologically unstable. As a caveat, however, I would say that the extent of damage that has occurred to a particular bog, as a result of ...
The Effects of Global Warming
... of the eastern two-thirds of the United States in 1999. Diseases will also result from the increase in natural disasters as conditions are normally unsanitary in areas which are hit by natural disasters. In 2005, there was a mass evacuation of residents in New Orleans ...
Water Pollution
... waste, fertilizers and pesticides. All of these are controlled by various federal, state and local laws. To date, these laws control pesticide registration with the United States Department of Agriculture and depending on the local laws, self-government by manufacturers. In the Agricultural ...