How to Manage the Discharge of Wastes With the Development in Colombo Municipal Council

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1. Waste management refers to the collection, transportation, processing, recycling and disposal of waste materials. These waste materials are solid, liquid, gaseous and even radioactive substances. Managing these human generated wastes requires reducing their effect on health and the environment as well as recovering resources from it. There are existing waste … Read more

Corporate Responsibility: Integrative New Approaches for Coastal and Environmental sustainability

ABSTRACT In recent years and even currently, the rule entails focus on both Governmental Initiatives and Corporate voluntary practices with the view to curb industrial pollution in the study area (The Douala Coastal City and its environs including Bonaberi). However, several studies have failed to ascertain the extent to which these initiates and practices have … Read more

Feather pecking – causes and solutions

Introduction The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a domesticated subspecies of the Red Junglefowl. Chickens were originally domesticated for cockfighting, and barely used for meat or egg production. Only around the nineteenth century the poultry industry commenced, starting out with producers keeping only a handful of chickens of dual purpose (eggs and meat), which had … Read more

Climate Effect On Building facade

Abstract : Building facade is one of an important element of the architecture. It have a significant effect on energy conservation and the comfort of the building users. The facade is affected by the environmental conditions and it designs should take into consideration the climate of it regions this research will explain the facade treatment … Read more

SEED BANKS AND THEIR SIGNFICANCE

Introduction to seed banks: Seed bank can be defined as: ‘Seed banks are simply a source of conservation of different species of seeds in order to restore their population by using natural or artificial methods’. All over the world people are so conscious about the uncontrolled exploitation and depletion of natural sources. Through Seed banks … Read more

Maintaining biodiversity

In this essay I will tell you about the why species are threatened, how existing material/mineral resources can be maintained, if humans are becoming less or more diverse on global and local level and what projects/initiatives there are in my country for maintaining the biodiversity. Also I will tell you about the biodiversity on personal … Read more

Collective Good Problems: Addressing Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest

Deforestation is the act of cutting down or burning all the trees in an area. It seems that some people are thriving on the suffering of others by using the forests for urban use, and logging industries.??While the poor need these forests as a basic means of survival, others are cutting down these forests to … Read more

Pollution

Pollution is everywhere around you. Its all over the whole planet. It makes us humans, plants and animals ill. But what exactly is ‘Pollution’? Pollution is contamination. There are different kinds of pollutions like Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Sound Pollution, Land Pollution, etc. Environmental pollution is a pollution that combines every pollution that damages our … Read more

The Impact of Deforestation on Ecology Systems and Environment

Essay: DEFORESTATION In the development country, the increasing need of a land space for agricultural, industrial and residential; and the most importantly urban development needs are required with the growing of population. In other terms, deforestation means that the clearing or felling of forest which covered by the tree plantations in order to accommodate agricultural, … Read more

Energy sources and the environment

Burning fossil fuels is a major factor why environmental pollution kept on increasing. Most of our electricity came from fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas. The energy transfer from chemical energy (the remains for plants and animals reforms to fossil fuels) to heat energy which produces steam. The steam then turns a … Read more

Human activity and environmental changes

Introduction The unparalleled relationship between human activity and environmental changes as central to public policy, draw some public interest worldwide. It is public knowledge that human activity causes climate change, which affect both economies and societies. Natural catastrophe like storms, floods and droughts increases its figure to threefold within 30 years resulting to destruction on … Read more

Energy sources and renewable energy

Energy has turned into a to a great degree interesting issue for Americans in the course of the last couple of years, with explanations behind our energy concerns going from environmental to political to money related. Notwithstanding contrasting reasons, it is clear that the answer for our energy issues is to move from conventional energy … Read more

Daphnia sp. (crustacean)

Daphnia sp. is a small crustacean that has a wide distribution and high diversity with over 100 species of Daphnia identified by scientists (Ebert 2005). Daphnia sp. is more commonly known as the water flea and it is a transparent organism with a length of around a few millimeters and a rounded shape. It has … Read more