Category: Global Issues
Local and Global Environmental Issues
September 10, 2018 – 04:26 amThe world s environment has emerged as a major subject of political, economic, scientific, ethical and theological discussion and inquiry. Issues related to environmental issues, by their nature and scope, affect...
Global Ecological Problems
March 18, 2017 – 10:45 amGlobal-scale environmental problems are rarely regarded as amenable to traditional scientific experiment. We argue here that small-scale experiments using ‘model organisms’ in microcosms or mesocosms can be a useful...
Global Environmental Problems
February 28, 2017 – 10:04 amIn global environmental problems, each country s own contribution to worldwide emissions is small, so there is little a country can do by itself. To solve global environmental problems one needs coordinated actions...
Major Global Environmental Issues
February 25, 2018 – 08:43 pmDam in Sabiñanigo town, Spain. There are currently in excess of 70, large dams worldwide. With the continuing construction of new dams, more than 90 per cent of the world s rivers will be fragmented by at least...
Global warming and Environmental Issues
December 15, 2017 – 07:51 pmClimate 101: Causes and Effects The climate is certainly changing. But what is causing this change? And how does the rising temperature affect the environment, and our lives? The planet is warming, from North Pole...
Global Ecological Issues
December 11, 2017 – 07:40 pmWe live in a world where humans are increasingly changing the physical and chemical environment at a global scale. Climate is warming, the populations of many species are in decline, pollution is affecting ecosystems...
Current Global Environmental Issues
December 7, 2017 – 07:34 pmThe global biosphere acts as a single system, where environmental degradation and other environmental impacts of each country affect the whole: it is not enough to limit our environmental governance to the state...
Environmental Issues of Global warming
September 15, 2017 – 09:48 amThe potential future effects of global climate change include more frequent wildfires, longer periods of drought in some regions and an increase in the number, duration and intensity of tropical storms. Credit:...
Global Environmental Issues and Problems PDF
September 3, 2017 – 09:41 amMeeting the world’s food security challenge will require a multi-national, collaborative effort to integrate the best research from science, engineering and socioeconomics so that technological advances can bring...
Global Environmental Problems and Solutions
March 6, 2017 – 12:10 pmIn 1994, Scott Barrett predicted that international environmental agreements were either broad but shallow, or deep but narrow (Barrett 1994). That is, international agreements had either many signatories who promised...
Environmental pollution and Global Issues
February 19, 2017 – 11:33 amAir pollution is a major global environmental risk to our health and food security. It is estimated to cause about 3.7 million premature deaths worldwide and destroys enough crops to feed millions of people every...
Recent Global Environmental Issues
June 10, 2017 – 12:51 pmThe Altai Mountains in Russia. Debra Javeline and co-author Sarah Lindemann-Komarova researched activism in the Altai Republic, one of Russia’s poorest regions, for an article on Russian civil society. Debra Javeline...
Global Environmental Challenges
August 17, 2016 – 11:49 amThe Global Environment Challenge is focused in industrial and environmental biotechnology. Most don’t understand that “going green, ” is so much more than “reduce, recycle and re-use.” To us, it means hacking the...