Global warming - publié le 17/05/2009
Essay - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
In today's society, environmental issues have an important impact on business and industrial decisions and are becoming part and parcel of economics. We live in scorching summers, the winters seem to be milder from year to year, and the seasons seem to have disappeared. Are these observations...
The impact of climate change on the Canadian Boreal forest
Thesis - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
This paper will provide a review of scientific literature, and look at solutions to problems, resulting from of impacts of climate change on the boreal forest region of Canada, as projected into the late 21st century. It will look at the problem from a number of intersecting areas: forest...
How Finnish people live and adapt to a particular external environment
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
To begin, we have to underline that the point that will be developed here is that Finnish people are strongly connected with nature. First of all, more than a quarter of the country is northern than the polar circle: Finland is the most septentrional country in Europe... Then, Finland is known as...
Water use and climate change : the effects of climate change on global water cycle
Essay - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
What I particularly want to stress in this essay is the necessary link that we have to make between climate change and water resources. It shows that it's necessary to understand those links and to investigate them if we want to find and propose recommendations and adaptations in order to...
Environmental toxicology on metallic mercury spill: A case in the versatile estrie and the steps to a successful decontamination
Thesis - 13 pages - Ecology & environment
In October 1996, the directions of public health in the Eastern Townships (Estrie-DSP) and a multipurpose area that have requested the collaboration of the Center for Toxicology of Quebec (CTQ) to the management of mercury spill metal in a class-chemistry laboratory. During our first...
Report on solutions to water-scarcity, irrigation and water-erosion problems in Western India
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Ecology & environment
Projects in the Maharashtra State of India, especially among rural dwellers in the Ghats Mountains area, to improve water use and availability were actively pursued by Canadian and Indian researchers in the 1990s. This project was carried out with local people, paying particular attention to the...
History of forecasting the weather
Thesis - 8 pages - Ecology & environment
Weather refers to the state of air on earth at a given place and time, and climate is the pattern of weather that forms and one expects at a particular place at a given time. The weather or climate of a place usually identifies as warm or cold, wet or dry, cloudy or clear, or windy.The weather of...
A study on ways to forecast weather
Thesis - 11 pages - Ecology & environment
Weather refers to the state of atmosphere at a given place and time with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind velocity and air pressure. Climate is the pattern of weather that forms and one expects at a particular place at a given time. The weather or climate of a place...
Role of an engineer in solving global issues
Thesis - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
This report emphasizes the role of an engineer in solving three major global issues, which are excessive demand for global energy production, limited natural resources of the planet and exponentially growing environmental pollution. An engineer's role in solving the global issues addressed is to...
A study on the common cloud types and their influence on the weather
Thesis - 14 pages - Ecology & environment
The heat from the sun's energy results in the water at the surface of the earth, mainly in oceans warming and converting into gaseous water vapor. The presence of such water vapor makes air moist or humid. The air near the ground rises when it becomes warm due to the sun's rays, and when...
A study on how weather affects populations
Thesis - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
The impact of the weather and climate on a place has always been significant in history. In fact, hostile weather has been responsible for wiping out entire species and human civilizations. The last ice age made northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere inhospitable, and the flood mentioned in...
Ontario Landfill gas: Management, regulation & recovery. legal & policy issues
Tutorials/exercises - 17 pages - Ecology & environment
Landfills seem to be a major part of waste disposal life. Love them or hate them, they are a necessity in dealing with ever increasing amounts of waste. Statistics Canada reported that Canadians threw out about 20 per cent more garbage in 2004 compared to 2000, bringing per-capita output to 418...
Static/dynamic ecological modeling systems
Thesis - 8 pages - Ecology & environment
Ecological modeling is utilized as a predictor mechanism, to ultimately analyze and observe the various systems and process which govern an ecosystem. With this information available, scientists can attempt to alter an ecosystem based on the interactions of several variables. These models...
Hemlock forest ecological analysis - Environmental gradients
Thesis - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
The Hemlock Forest Model represents the varying diversities along an environmental gradient. Variations in elevation can potentially yield alterations in various biological processes, which subsequently form complex assemblage interactions. The Hemlock Forest displayed a high level of diversity...
The hunt for alternative sources of energy
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
In the past century, it has been seen that the consumption of non-renewable sources of energy has caused more environmental damage than any other human activity. Electricity generated from fossil fuels such as coal and crude oil has led to high concentrations of harmful gases in the atmosphere....
Analysis of environmental toxins via Gas Chromatography (FID)
Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Ecology & environment
Gas chromatography is an efficient process employed for the separation and determination of various analytes. With the use of a flame ionization detector, gas chromatography can be specifically applied to the chromatographic separation of organic compounds. There are very few processes of...
Arctic ice loss: Overview and consequences
Thesis - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
The high latitude arctic regions receive less energy in the form of solar radiation or sunlight compared to other parts of the world. This results in large areas of seawater in this region freezing to form pack ice. Every summer, when the sun's energy falls on the earth in a higher intensity...
Environmental pollution: A growing problem
Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Environmental Studies (ES) is an inter-disciplinary area of study incorporating the social and scientific aspects of nature and natural resources. The major aim of Environmental Studies is to project the inter-relationships between living beings-especially human beings- with the surrounding...
The sustainable development of the canal from Nantes to Brest
Essay - 9 pages - Ecology & environment
The Canal de Nantes à Brest is a French canal that links the two cities of Nantes and Brest through Brittany. This canal, which is an artificial navigable waterway, links the above two cities and is believed to have originated in the 16th century. There is no doubt that the Canal is historically...
Greenpeace - publié le 19/03/2009
Case study - 8 pages - Ecology & environment
Greenpeace, an environmental organization, was founded in Canada in 1971 in order to protest American nuclear testing in Alaska. This is a non-violent and a non-profit organization. Its action takes the form of direct confrontation with the government to contest a policy for its estimated adverse...
The fight against climate change: a burning international issue
Essay - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
Climate change is an environmental issue that is now recognized by almost the entire scientific community in the world. It affects the entire planet. The climate is influenced by both natural and human factors. However, it's been proven that human activities are responsible for a wide range of...
Species extinction: a natural phenomenon?
Essay - 14 pages - Ecology & environment
Since 1992, the Red List of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature enlisted that three hundred and forty-nine new species had been discovered. Of this huge number, about 51% of them were expected to reach extinction. It was only 5% of all the recognized species that had a stable...
The wave of greening Universities around the United States: case study at Tulane University (New Orleans) (2008)
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
Tulane University is considered a sister school of Rice University. In fact, after the disastrous hurricane Katrina, many of Tulane students took up temporary residence at Rice University. The university was founded in 1834, initially only as a public medical college. Since then, Tulane...
Conservation issues for tropical reef fish spawning aggregations
Essay - 9 pages - Ecology & environment
Coral reefs are in decline worldwide due to a variety of anthropogenic factors, of which overfishing is the oldest and most egregious (Bellwood et al. 2004, Graham et al. 2006). Tropical reef fish spawning aggregations (FSAs) are preferentially targeted due to their predictable spatial and...
Business ethics, my dilemma: Cosmetic testing on animals
Essay - 9 pages - Ecology & environment
Cosmetics are used daily by millions of people, and include a vast range of products such as shampoo, makeup, moisturizer, perfume, etc. Approximately 38,000 animals are used every year across the EU to test new ingredients and products. And in the world, cosmetics companies kill millions of...
Climate change and politics: a real shift or status quo?
Essay - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
We will try to analyze the responses from the political field against climate change and the overall sustainable development. Climate change means significant change in the average weather, which causes a lot of perturbations on the natural system. The French president, Jacques Chirac, in a...
Domestic politics on the international environmental political scene
Essay - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
The environment represents a very particular area of international politics. As it constitutes a non-rival and a non-excludable good, this issue crosses the borders of all nation-states. The concerns regarding environmental damages affect all nations. Garrett Hardin, who developed the metaphor of...
Microsoft Green Solutions : Communication Plan (April 2008)
Case study - 11 pages - Ecology & environment
A recent trend in customer relationships puts an important emphasis on corporations' behavior towards environmental issues. Several non-governmental organizations have pointed out companies that had been engaged in activities damaging the environment. Among them was Greenpeace which targeted...
Taking back space: Preventing and reducing the proliferation of space weapons
Essay - 10 pages - Ecology & environment
Weapons proliferation in outer space is not a thing of the future or something of science fiction. It is real and it is happening right now. The advancement of weapons technology continues to grow exponentially as does mankind's exploration of space. Controlling weapons technology in outer space...
The relationship the Finnish have with nature - publié le 19/01/2009
Essay - 9 pages - Ecology & environment
Talking about Finland without mentioning the nature is like forgetting more than 188.000 sparkling lakes, putting away the dense forest and woodland areas fully covering 76 percent of the nation (27 in France), the lung and the pride of any Finnish. That's impossible! Whereas Finland was a rural...
