Overpopulation is having disastrous effects on the environment. The forests are being cut down. The atmosphere is becoming contaminated with increasing amounts of carbon dioxide. The oceans and seas are being polluted and over fished. There are simply too many people on earth. The UNFPA (United ...

Land degradation in Australia is a very serious and difficult environmental problem, as Australia is dependent on agricultural practices. (See land use in Australia.) Urban sprawl, land pollution, salinisation, and soil erosion may cause Land degradation after land clearing, or waterlogging through ...

The world's population has grown more in the last 50 years than it had done in the previous 4 million years[1]. This quantum leap in the human population has put severe strains on the finite resources and the fragile environment of our planet. What is more, the present rate of the galloping...

Introduction In this day and age, where the vast majority of American shoppers select their meat and dairy products from a refrigerated section in a grocery store, people simply do not think about the origins of their food. When Americans do think about their food, the majority of them probably h...

Why is there a war against pesticides? Pesticides have been used for years in the agricultural industry as well as in parks, lawns, gardens and school yards. Pesticides have many harmful effects on our environment, as well as on our children's health. The Supreme Court of Canada has ...

Global Warming Human kind has entered a brand new relationship with the earth. The constant and increasing pressures we are exerting threaten our planets ability to sustain life itself. Change-in the way we think, and in the way we live-is needed now. Global warming is the most urgent environment...

Advancements in all technology fields are inevitable in the information age, like the invention of the New Leafs in biotechnology. These technological advances have brought society to a new, improved level. Because of this biotechnology, we have so many advantages, such as improved crops and efficie...

ANIMAL RIGHTS INTRODUCTION The animal rights movement was founded in the belief that a moral order exists in the universe and that within moral order animals and human being are equal. I think that animals share with humans the ...

There are 2.5 billion pounds of pesticides being applied to agricultural products each year in the United States. This is ten times more than was applied forty years ago. It is still unknown what type of exact effects these chemicals may have on individuals. Some farmers that have been using pestici...

One of the great rivers of Asia, the Brahmaputra starts from the slopes of Kailash in Northern Tibet and ends at the Bay of Bengal. The river is both a blessing and a curse to the people of Assam. Every year during the monsoon it bursts out of its wide, shallow channel into the flood plain, and then...

Genetically modified food has been a topic of much debate ever since it was first introduced to the market in the early 1990s. Safety issues and economic as well as ecological concerns have been raised by many. While it is evident that there was a food supply issue the question is whether genetical...

Soil can vary from one point to the next in its chemical and physical makeup, which makes it very diverse. Crop yield and variations within the field can be influenced by soil properties, or pollutants that move through soil, and then into the groundwater, or runoff into lakes and streams. The impor...

America the Beautiful! So why are we destroying it everyday with the use of pesticides? It has been proven that pesticides have affects on it's surrounding, although made to improve earths resources, they typically take there negative effect on the environment in time. Pesticides affect mor...

Plant. Biology Term Paper The Green Revolution: What Lies Beyond Summary As a result of rapid population increase, the world today is facing a threat of massive famine. In the 1960s, the globe prematurely heralded the solution to feeding the growing number of people. Dr. Borlaug's develo...

To till or not to till that is the question? This may seem like a silly pun on one of Shakespeare's famous lines, but this is a very valid question with many farmers across the land today. No-till, or conservation tillage is a increasingly popular means of working the land by preparing a micro see...

Diminishing Habitats of Wildlife A thriving habitat is essential to the lives of our wildlife. Wildlife habitats are continuously decreasing in the United States due to several factors. The increasing numbers of lost wildlife habitats are a result of human populations that manipulate them...

Farm Subsidies: Their Impact on the Country and the Environment Farming has been a mainstay of not only American lifestyle, but throughout society as a whole. Farming has always been thought of as back breaking work, and not the typical nine to five job, nor as profitable as a white collar jo...

Anthropology 0210/05/2000What are the benefits of intensifying agriculture? (Horticulture to intensive agriculture to mechanized agriculture)? What are the additional costs? Comparing the costs and benefits of a complex mechanized culture to a simple horticulture one can see the great ...

Biotechnology: Pros and ConsThroughout this past semester many important ecological dilemmas have come to my attention. The most striking environmental issue that I have noted this semester has been agricultural Biotechnology. A reputable definition of Biotechnology would be "the means or way of m...

 The Environmental Concerns of the Livestock Industry The United States leads the way in a global trend toward increased meat consumption. The averageAmerican consumes almost twice his or her own body weight in meat every year. World meat production has...

Brittany The particular significance of Brittany lies in its transformation from a region marginal to the rest of France, both culturally and economically, to a leading agricultural area of the country (Roger Dalton & Corentin Canevet, 1999) Brittany has traditionally suffered out migration, p...

INTRODUCTIONHuman population in the past 48 years has more than doubled its seize, from 2.5 billion in 1950 to 5.9 billion in 1998 . A few month ago the Secrtary of the United Nation declared a baby as the No. 6 billion citezen of the earth. As you may have noticed, human population has reached a s...

Advancements in all fields of technology are inevitable in the information age, like the invention of the New Leafs in biotechnology. These technological advances have brought society to a new improved level. It is because of this biotechnology that we have so many advantages such as improved crops ...

Canada is the second largest country in the world after Russia, and relies heavily on the main three primary resources. The fishing industry is one of the primary industries in Canada, which is concentrated on both the East and West Coast of Canada. The farming industry is also a primary industry, w...

INTRODUCTIONHuman population in the past 48 years has more than doubled its seize, from 2.5 billion in 1950 to 5.9 billion in 1998 . A few month ago the Secrtary of the United Nation declared a baby as the No. 6 billion citezen of the earth. As you may have noticed, human population has reached a s...