Rainwater Harvesting: The key to water efficient buildings

Draft 1.0 Introduction In communities and rural areas where there is no surface water, where groundwater is deep or too salty, acidic or is generally unpleasant to drink, another source of clean water must be sought. In areas that experience regular rainfall and the least air pollution, the most sustainable and appropriate alternative is the … Read more

Reducing Climate Change-Driven Erosion and Landslide Risk through Sustainable Agriculture (JCDT)

CBA Jamaica: Reducing Climate Change-Driven Erosion and Landslide Risk through Sustainable Agriculture (JCDT) The community based adaptation objective is to integrate climate change risks into sustainable community management of natural resources by strengthening the resilience of communities addressing climate change impacts and to generate knowledge and lessons for replication and up scaling.  Three impact indicators … Read more

How divided opinions on climate change frustrates progress

The human population’s unnatural acceleration of global warming has the potential to yield quite disastrous and widespread effects. Global warming is an important issue because it will deliver consequences to anyone and anything living on Earth. However, people who have the most influence on this issue cannot seem to meet and discuss the issue at … Read more

High Seas Conservation in the Southern Ocean

High Seas Conservation at the Bottom of the World: Collaborative Governance, Participatory Mapping, and Conservation Opportunity in the Southern Ocean The Context: The Sixth Mass Extinction In 2005, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment reported that according to the IUCN Red List between 12% and 52% of various well-studied, higher-order taxa were at risk of extinction (Mace … Read more

What can realistically be done to stop the harmful effects of climate change in the world?

Abstract I constructed a question for this project that is currently becoming a cause for global discussion.  I am very interested in the geographical aspects of our world as it is surprisingly unpredictable at times. In the past couple of years we have seen an increase in the world death toll due to natural disasters … Read more

Impacts of Global Warming and Climate Change on the Arctic

The issues of global warming and climate change are prominent in society today, as they are becoming increasingly more intense, affecting ways of life. One place where climate change and global warming have a major impact is the arctic. That arctic is warming at intense rates, affecting its environment and habitats, raising the global sea … Read more

Impact of climate change on grain yield of rainfed durum wheat

1. INTRODUCTION Today, climate change has become one of important emerging issues and the biggest concern of mankind as a consequence of scientific evidence about the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007a, 2007b, 2014a), successive scientific assessment reports proved that global average … Read more

What are the main causes of climate change and why is it so difficult to address this problem?

July 30th, 2018 Question: “What are the main causes of climate change and why is it so difficult to address this problem? What are the possible second and third order consequences of mitigation and adaptation response strategies that could be implemented to minimize the impacts of climate change?” I. Introduction Climate change is happening now. … Read more

Observed Climate Change (roots, impacts, future response strategy)

The severity of the world’s climate change issue has long been underestimated by many. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, “Climate change refers to any significant change in the measures of climate lasting for an extended period of time”.1 From 1880 to 2012, the annual temperature of the globe has increased by 1.5 F (0.8 C). … Read more

Impact of climate change and biodiversity loss

Global Climate Change is a phenomenon that involves the warming of the planet due to anthropogenic manipulation of the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect involves the warming of the earth due to outgoing longwave radiation from the earth’s surface becoming trapped in the earth’s atmosphere by gases called greenhouse gases. Examples of greenhouse gases include … Read more