Fracking is a process that requires harmful chemicals to be injected deep underground into Marcellus and Utica shale formations, the pressure created by this process causes the shale formations to fracture and release natural gas. The chemicals injected into the ground are in liquid form and commonly called “drilling fluid”, the composition of this fluid…
For years, the use of pesticides and insecticides went unregulated in the American farm industry. The focus was to produce the most crops possible on a given piece of land so that the most possible amount of people could be fed. The impacts on the environment were not considered until much later. Many environmentalists launched…
Water pollution is a horrible disease that affects today’s water sources. By definition, water pollution is water contaminated by any chemicals that can ultimately harm human, plant, and animal life. The chemicals can range from sewage waste to metals such as mercury. As a result of water being contaminated in different ways, there are multiple…
Alternative energy sources are the future. As people begin to understand the harmful effect of pollution caused by the use of fossil fuels, and the rapid depletion of the Earth’s natural resources, people are turning to energy sources that are both environmentally friendly and easily replenishable. A few of these alternative energy sources includes solar…
I will be focusing my paper on air pollution. Air pollution has many contributing factors to it, many of the factors are of what we use in a normal day of life. The air is polluted by anything that exerts of smoke or gases of combustion. Any car that releases carbon monoxide out of the…
Air Pollution has become an increasingly dangerous problem in the United States and around the world. Especially since so many things influence the amount of pollution we are putting into our air. We drive cars around every day, as well as run our factories every day all day long. Not to mention the home products…
In the early 1900″s, African honey bees were taken from South Africa and introduced to the European honey bee. African honey bees are known for their aggressiveness but are great producers of honey. Scientists believed that by interbreeding the two they would create the perfect honey bee that would produce more honey. Unfortunately, these hybrid…
Marcellus Shale, the mineral rock hailed to be our savior from dependence on foreign countries for oil & gas might not exactly be the great solution we thought it was; for many reasons. The process that retrieves the shale gas is known as fracking. Fracking is when a hole is drilled into the ground to…
Genetically modified organism also known as “GMO” are living organisms whose genetic makeup has been altered using engineered techniques to produce products with resistant genes. This processes is done by splicing the DNA structure of an organism and replacing the new resistant strands of DNA. This allows plants to have resistance to bugs, frost, viruses…
According to a UN report, a city the size of Vancouver is built every week- and about half of the world’s population lives in cities. Even though the city provides us with ease and opportunity, the environment feels anything but comfortable when humanity stretches its arms out and lays back. Urbanization is destroying habitats and…