Story of Stuff Project review

The concept of the movie is to illustrate the effects of consumerism on our environment, economy, and society by detailing the process through which raw materials are converted to consumer products, which eventually become waste. In producing this video, the Story of Stuff Project sought to open consumers’ eyes to some inconvenient truths about our … Read more

Nuclear hazards and waste

Nuclear hazards It is defined as the risk or danger to human health or the environment posed by radiation emanating from the atomic nuclei of a given substance or the possibility of an uncontrolled explosion originating from a fusion or fission reaction of atomic nuclear. Sources of nuclear hazards: The sources of radioactivity are both … Read more

Management of food waste

Over a period of a few decades, humans have changed food from a scarce resource into a mass production cycle around the world. During the 1800s you’d have to grow your own crops, and clean them they would live off this food for the day, weeks. Now, with farmers, our lives have become much more … Read more

Natural variation in environmental factors during embryonic development

A new study by Siviter et al ¹ is one of its first to represent data showing the natural variation in environmental factors during embryonic development, and how it may impact upon the development of behavioural traits during the ontogeny of oviparous reptiles.  Behavioural traits are often the first characteristic for an individual to alter … Read more

The Transmission of Chronic Wasting Disease

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a prion disease that affects all members of the Cervidae family. The disease, CWD, affects the nervous system and is a fatal neurodegenerative disease. During the course of infection, CWD prions accumulate in the central nervous system. This accumulation of infected prions in the body causes tissue damage which leads … Read more

The estimation of vapour pressure using a quasi-static method at high temperatures.

Abstract The vapour pressures of six different elements – indium (ln), silver (Ag), gallium (Ga), copper (Cu), tin (Sn) and gold (Au) – were compared according to a quasi-static method of measuring vapour pressures. This study was undertaken to determine if these six metals have different chemical properties, which could affect the boiling point of … Read more

American energy industry’s response to the global 2008 financial meltdown

Introduction The goal of this report is to analyze the American energy industry’s response to the global 2008 financial meltdown, and evaluate results of its commitment to clean energy in tandem with eco friendly policies in place to promote clean energy. Mirroring its system of government, the United States energy policy is decentralized to a … Read more

Reproductive performance of rabbits – dried herbal seeds treatment

REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE OF RABBIT DOES PRODUCING LOW NUMBER OF WEANED KIDS TREATED WITH SOME DRIED HERBAL SEEDS. ABSTRACT: Forty five, 20 month old rabbit does of the 2nd breeding season, having equal numbers of Bouscat, NZW and V-line breeds was equally divided into three experimental groups, each of them included 5 does of each breed. … Read more

The European lobster

The European lobster is found in temperate waters along the coast of the North-Eastern Atlantic, from Morocco and the Mediterranean to the colder waters of the Arctic Circle around Norway, with the centre of distribution in the British Isles, see Fig.1 (Richards & Wickins, 1979; Middlemiss et al. 2015; Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and … Read more

China will not be able to achieve its promise to reduce emissions

Since the 1980’s China population and energy demand has steadily increased therefore the reliance on consumption of coal has been critically high with almost half of the world’s emissions been from China. China is both the largest importer and producer of coal. World Energy Council has stated that approximately 126 billion short tons of coal … Read more

CER’s mission to maximise economic welfare in theory

Energy is one of the necessities for human beings, of which provision is a natural monopoly because of its industry characteristics. An unregulated natural monopoly would not consider maximizing economic welfare, in other words, protecting consumer interests regarding price, output, and innovation. Therefore, regulators step in from outside the market. In this case, the Irish … Read more

Uncovering Environmental Racism: From the Streets to the Halls of Power

I am hear to discuss with you, the topic of environmental racism. Environmental Racism is a term that many have never even heard, but nonetheless it is an issue with grave and severe impacts. Environmental racism is a  social justice movement that describes the inequality of the placement of environmental hazards, and is a term … Read more