18 Results for air pollution

The Fuel Emissions Reduction Act Pollution in the United States is getting worse and worse by the day. Poor air quality is a serious issue and health risk in cities throughout the country. The main source of the pollution problem is our transportation. Cars produce roughly one half of the pollut...
Oil pollution is a very large threat to the ocean and it's inhabitants. Roughly about 706 millions of oil pollute ocean waters worldwide each year. Some of the main cause's include oil spills, oil in runoff, air pollution, and even natural seeping of oil into the ocean. In 1987, more than 3.5 milli...
After the technological boom that our society experienced in the last couple of decades, people are returning to some basic environmental values. People in more developed countries, particularly Europe, are more environmentally conscious than ever. Our planet is a great resource, but we can not ex...
The automobile has become a very important part of today's society. It is a necessity to own or to have access to a car in order to keep up with all of the competition of the business world, and also one's social demands. Most people would not be able to travel around a country or the w...
The Environmental Tradeoffs of MTBE I Intro.: A Good afternoon everyone. If you would, imagine that you are going to spend a day on the lake. When you got there, you looked up into the sky to see, not a bright grinning sun staring back at you, but instead the gray layer of smog that so domi...
When people think of hydrogen, outside the studying of a chemistry class or something to that effect, thinks immediately of the hydrogen bomb. This situation is obvious a big image problem. Thanks to new technology, hydrogen has escaped the imagine of the unbearable to other more economical thoug...
Electricity is extremely precious and valuable. Our town should be lucky to have it. In other cases we shouldn't use too much of it either. There are lots of different ways of creating electricity. I will talk about 4 of the ways of creating electricity. I will tell you what the Advantages/Disadva...
This article talks about how the hydrogen economy will be coming. There are a lot of obstacles that they must surpass to form a hydrogen economy. In the year 2003, President George W. Bush announced a 1.7 billion research program to develop a vehicle that would make the air cleaner and use less oil...
Physical & Biological Resources The oceans provide modern society with numerous resources. For centuries the ocean has provided humans with things such as food, clothing, shelter materials, and a way of transportation. In today's world more than half of the resources that humans use are deri...
Potential Environmental and Social impact of ELECTRIC CARS A wise person once said that: "The only thing that we know about the future is its uncertainty". This uncertainty opens the world of opportunity to us, allowing progress to pave the road to tomorrow. Over the past fifty years...
In the past ten years, mankind has been searching for a viable solution to the biggest pollution problem; exhaust emissions from cars. Several alternatives have been explored and tested. The more popular of these are the gasoline/electric hybrids. In recent years many foreign car companies have put...
The Greatest Challenge Facing the World Today Problems tend to exist no matter what part of the world you explore. As each day goes by many new problems arise involving people of all nationalities. There is never one distinct complication among the many presently introduced that needs ...
¡§Negative Impacts On Technologies¡ Advanced technologies are potential threats to devastate the living environment. Although technologies has helped human beings to adapt an easier way of life, however, in the long term it might not be as beneficial ...
There are many ways to produce electricity but unfortunately not all of them are clean and safe. Luckily here in Canada we have clean and safe alternatives to things like the burning of fossil fuels. We are the largest producer of hydropower in the world. Hydro energy is electricity made using water...
Environmental Impacts of the Gulf War Our countries recent endeavor into Iraq has shown that it has learned and will try to control the destruction that has devastated Iraq's natural habitat. In the first Gulf War our world became aware of the true impact that armed conflicts can have on ...
BIOFUEL - TODAY'S NEED In today's world day in and day out we see fleets of cars, buses, two-wheelers and trucks on our streets. Poisonous fumes damaging our lungs, noise pollution deafening our ears and harried commuters fed up with their lot. Is this what mankind has come to? Imagine ...
Our Energy Supply Have you ever thought about how we get the energy to run the things we take for granite every single day? There are many sources of energy that are used for transportation, heat, light, and the manufacturing of goods of all kinds. The development of science and civilization is clo...
CRUDE OIL Crude oils are unprocessed oils mined straight from the oil source. Crude oils are such a useful starting point for so many different substances because they contain hydrocarbons. Crayons, plastics, heating oil, jet fuel, kerosene, synthetic fibres and tires are all originally made from...