Environmental Issues. It's Our Ocean - Save a Mile. Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Garbage Patch. Broadcast Yourself. [TRAILER] IRON CROWS di Bong-Nam Park. Water Pollution Video. Planet 100: The Pacific Trash Vortex Explained. Safety & environment. Current Environmental Issues. Greenhouse Gases Have Already Reached Dangerous Tipping Point Climate change, or global warming, is the greatest environmental threat we've ever faced.
How we respond to this crisis will greatly impact both current and future generations and all other species. The global carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere has exceeded 400 parts per million (NOAA). (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report) This level is considered a tipping point. "There is alarming evidence that important tipping points, leading to irreversible changes in major ecosystems and the planetary climate system, may already have been reached or passed. Ecosystems as diverse as the Amazon rainforest and the Arctic tundra, for example, may be approaching thresholds of dramatic change through warming and drying. Global temperatures are now the highest in 4,000 years.
Open Letter Regarding Climate Change From Concerned Members of the U.S. In 2015, CO2 levels reached a new record. Environmental Protection Agency issues new regulation on mercury. Congress gave the EPA the authority to limit these toxins — which include mercury, arsenic, acid gas, nickel, selenium and cyanide — in 1990, but disagreements among federal regulators, industry officials and activists over how best to regulate them have stalled action until now.
The Washington Post reported the full details of the regulation on Friday, the day EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson signed the regulation into law, but the agency did not publicly disclose the rule until Wednesday. “This is a giant victory for public health, especially the health of our children,” Jackson told reporters in a telephone call Wednesday, noting that she knew the full impact of polluted air, because as the mother of a son with asthma, “Fifteen years ago, my youngest son spent his first Christmas in a hospital, struggling to breathe.” Some utility and coal industry officials said cleaning up these plants will cause severe economic hardship and could lead to power outages in regions of the country. Environmental Issues. Author and Page information by Anup ShahThis Page Last Updated Monday, February 02, 2015 This part of the global issues web site attempts to highlight some of the environmental issues and concerns that have an affect on all of us — from what we do, to what we don’t do. 50 articles on “Environmental Issues” and 7 related issues: Biodiversity Last updated Sunday, January 19, 2014.
The variety of life on Earth, its biological diversity, is commonly referred to as biodiversity. Read “Biodiversity” to learn more. Why Is Biodiversity Important? Why is Biodiversity important? Biodiversity boosts ecosystem productivity where each species, no matter how small, all have an important role to play. For example, a larger number of plant species means a greater variety of crops; greater species diversity ensures natural sustainability for all life forms; and healthy ecosystems can better withstand and recover from a variety of disasters.
Read “Why Is Biodiversity Important? Nature and Animal Conservation. Science News - Environment. New York State | Citizen Guide. Charles Moore: Sailing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Footage of whale who died after eating plastic bags. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. A Gift To Future Generations - Environment New York. Environment. Environment may refer to: It may also refer to: Built environment, constructed surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal placesKnowledge environment, social practices, technological and physical arrangements intended to facilitate collaborative knowledge building, decision making, inference or discoveryNatural environment, all living and non-living thingsSocial environment, the culture that an individual lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interactPhysical environment, in ecology In computing: Desktop environment, in computing, the graphical user interface to the computerEnvironment variables, the dynamic set of variables defined in a processIntegrated development environment, a type of computer software that assists computer programmers in developing softwareRuntime environment, a virtual machine state which provides software services for processes or programs while a computer is running.