Raising animals for food is the single greatest human-caused source of destruction to our environment. It is the largest source of greenhouse gases, land use, and degradation; the number one source of water pollution and rainforest deforestation. Animal-based diets are also a significant contributo...
Growing use of biodiesel is responsible for 90 per cent of the increased demand for vegetable oil since 2015, says Searchinger. In Europe,more than half of imported palm oil ends up powering cars, driving the destruction of wildlife and carbon-rich forests in South-East Asia for...
What is the potential interconnectedness of ecosystems? Is it good or bad to only consider our ecosystem? Why? Explain.The interconnectedness of Ecosystems:Ecosystems play a vital role in ensuring the continuity of life in our planet. There is need to...
Deforestation is the cutting down of a large area of trees and the destruction of forests by people. Forests are what we call an exhaustible resource, one which can be used up if it is not used carefully. Over the last few decades, deforestation has threatened the rainforests with total ext...
thousands of colleges and universities held protests against environmental destruction. But it wasn't just students who participated, the event gained national media attention and many people gathered in public areas to talk about the environment and find ways to defend the planet. In total, about ...
But why is it that so many a good genius goes bad? Or that it seems that statistically, evil geniuses outweigh their good genius counterparts so dramatically?
Despite having a large amount of biodiversity, why is the Amazon Rainforest facing the risk of desertification? Why is a global perspective on ecology even more relevant now and will continue to be so in the future, as compared to the past? List and ...
However, coral reefs all around the world are in danger of depletion and destruction more now than ever (Richardson 1998). Damage to the coral reef is caused by a number of factors such as increasing temperatures or reduction of sea pH (van Hooidonk et al. 2013). These factors lead to ...
The second problem is that there is no guarantee that beef from the approved ranches is actually rainforest-friendly. JBS and other big meatpackers are required to monitor only their direct suppliers — and not the ranches and fattening farms that frequently supply those suppliers. Experts said ...
If you planted up a forest on top of an old strip mine and harvested the trees to make biofuels, there'd be a net benefit to the planet. But what if you felled and burned a large area of rainforest to grow palm oil for making biodiesel? Then you'd be releasing a huge amount of...