Thus, it is the product of decades old decay of sea plants and animals and is found in abundance in very old sea beds. ... It is these qualities of crude oil that make it one of the most highly demanded resources in the world. Crude oil accounts for 40% of all energy usage ; therefore, it is a major import and export product throughout the world. ... Oceans and seas are home to many forms of marine life. ... However, the mud may also build up on the sea floor, killing marine life . ...

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If this process should continue, arctic sea-ice loss may reach a critical, irreversible threshold. ... In the West Antarctica, ice sheets largely rest on rocks below sea level. ... It has been observed that some region of the world are experiencing rapid melting of this permafrost especially parts of Serbia. ... These huge natural forces would take over and change our world in double-quick time. Coral Reefs According to (Jordan et al., 2007), there two trends known to be forcing coral reefs towards tipping points, the rising sea water temperature and the increasing influx of atmospheric ...

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There has been a loss of sea ice, accelerating sea levels, longer, and more intense heat waves. ... Unlike many of the worlds' poorest people who have no money at all to fall back on. ... The poorest people in the developed world are typically forced to live in the most dangerous parts. ... Global Warming is a huge issue in our world today, and we humans are the main cause of this horrible disaster. ... At the same time increasing sea levels will cause destruction and the slow change of natural habitats. ...

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Climate change is one of the biggest issues facing the world today.  ... It is the  rapid  pace at which the temperature will rise that will result in many negative impacts to humans and the environment and this why there is such a world-wide concern. 3.2 Small Average Global Temperature Can Have A Big Impact Just a few degrees increase in the earth's temperature can cause droughts and crop failures, ecosystem imbalances, as well as melting ice caps causing sea levels to rise. ... Drought and desertification are starting to spread and intensify in some parts of the world already." 4....

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Ecologists hope to educate people to take steps for the future of this world. ... There will be many areas that will be affected by the sea level rise and specially those coastal lines. ... This statistic is shocking because in two centuries, the sea-level may rise about twelve feet which can drown a lot of land. ... If state government can't work together, how the world will work together. ... The whole world needs to notice this problem that humanity has created. ...

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These include the drying out of the Aral sea, the fourth largest inland sea in the world. ... Another extraordinary case is the death of millions of starfish due to radioactive military waste in the white sea. ... In fact, global warming is expected to rise temperatures quicker in the polar regions than in the rest of the world. ... Due to the rising sea level (due to global warming) about 10 million people in Bangladesh will lose their home; it is believed that 60% of the population in Florida will have to be relocated for the same reason. ... It burns a hole above Antarctica and depletes the...

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Some of the natural sources that emit this gas are rotting vegetation, volcanoes, plankton, rotting animals and sea spray. However, the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, do not help the situation and are largely to blame for approximately half of the emissions of this gas in the world. ... In that cycle, water evaporates from the land and sea into the atmosphere. ... Other sea dwellers such as amphibians are also affected by acid ran. ... Acid rain is a huge problem which affects every person living in the world in some sort of way. ...

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The world now burns at least five billion tons of fossil fuel each year. ... In many parts of the world today, forests are being destroyed at an alarming rate. ... Because there has been little attempt to replant trees in deforested areas, the world's forests are disappearing very quickly. ... Another major effect of global warming is the rising of seas. ... Thermal expansion is expected to account for as much as half of the increase in sea level over the next century. ...

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The world now burns at least five billion tons of fossil fuel each year. ... In many parts of the world today, forests are being destroyed at an alarming rate. ... Because there has been little attempt to replant trees in deforested areas, the world's forests are disappearing very quickly. ... Another major effect of global warming is the rising of seas. ... Thermal expansion is expected to account for as much as half of the increase in sea level over the next century. ...

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Throughout the last century, our world, reshaped by dams, irrigation, logging and so forth, has seen the human population grow. Technology produced an industrial age that transformed the land, sky, and waters of the worlds" nations. ... El Nino is "a natural, quasi-periodic increase in the sea-surface temperature of the ocean currents off the coast of South America, which can affect climate worldwide." ... (Parsons 209) It brings about warm temperature while its contrary, La Nina, causes cool sea-surface temperature. ... A rise in sea level will also have less arable land for people to live a...

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Over the years, hurricanes have become a great problem for many coastal villages and towns around the world. From the words of scientists, hurricanes are caused by heated water and variations of sea level. ... Avery also explains that "heat in the atmosphere is the fuel that leads to stormy weather," and "weather disasters are occurring with greater intensity and frequency around the world." ... Unfortunately, nobody can reject the fact that thousands of tons of mercury, lead, and other heavy metals are put into the water and air each year in the form of liquids and gases, which cause the se...

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Oil spills are a massive environmental and economic disaster affecting anything and everyone the hazardous waste comes in contact with, killing sea life and harming those in charge to resolve it. ... A good percentage of crude oil dispersed into open seas can be salvaged and reused for production, and this percentage increases depending on atmospheric conditions and water salinity. ... After an oil spill at sea, recovery workers will attempt to contain the slick with booms and remove it with floating skimmers. Given how quickly oil can spread in rough seas, though, this is an extremely difficu...

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There are many forms of acid rain that are seen around the world. ... It effects sea life, forests, air, us and our health, and also nonliving things. On sea life, acid rain damages all the plants and animals living inside a body of water. ... As the world's population we should take care of our environment. ...

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There was one significant change in the IPCC's 2000 climate predictions: it seems that an unwitting consequence of the world's largely successful efforts to reduce industrial smog has been to increase global surface temperatures (at least according to the IPCC climate models). ... The IPCC models assume that the ambient air temperature over the ocean is the same as the surface sea water temperature. ... New studies seem to indicate, however, that there can be significant variability between surface sea water and air temperatures due to wind and water currents. ...

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Global warming is one of the biggest problems faced in today's world. ... Pollution is produced by air, water, and solid waste all over the world. ... Five named oceans in the world are currently being polluted each day. Rivers carrying freshwater into oceans often carry pollutants and industrial waste, thus forming flocculation, which are pollutants clumped together and descended to the bottom of the sea. ... Rainforests help to regulate the world's climate and the atmosphere. ...

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Sea-level rise will threaten cities and countries worldwide, eroding barrier islands and virtually eliminating some island chains. ... Consumers in high-income countries "about 16 percent of the world's population "accounted for 80 percent of the money spent on private consumption in 1997. By contrast, purchases by consumers in low-income nations "the poorest 35 percent of the world's population "represented less than 2 percent of all private consumption. ... Developed countries, home to 20 percent of the world's people, are responsible...

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Even though global warming affects the entire world population the only way to fight the dilemma is for every town or city to work together to solve this problem and it is every communities responsibility to deal with this serious crisis that we have brought upon ourselves. ... Glaciers are melting around the world, mountaintop snowcaps are becoming smaller, and coral reefs are dying off because the seas are becoming to warm. ...

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Sea-level rise will threaten cities and countries worldwide, eroding barrier islands and virtually eliminating some island chains. ... Consumers in high-income countries "about 16 percent of the world's population "accounted for 80 percent of the money spent on private consumption in 1997. By contrast, purchases by consumers in low-income nations "the poorest 35 percent of the world's population "represented less than 2 percent of all private consumption. ... Developed countries, home to 20 percent of the world's people, are responsible...

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Introduction Owing to the rising greenhouse emission and the environmental pollution, a company's ecological footprint is seriously influencing the world's ecosystems, and the poor global environmental problems are changing a corporate strategy of a company (Saul et all. 2013, 42). ... It is true that IKEA's products are transported between suppliers and distribution centers and the products will be delivered to stores directly by road, rail and sea. ... As a matter of fact, they noticed that increasing the use of rail and sea transport will lead to lower CO2 emissions in road t...

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Visible sunlight allows us to see the world around us, but there is invisible sunlight, too. ... Even a little rise in temperature might lead to at least a small amount of melting of the polar ice caps and then a major rise in sea level, along with other environmental problems. ...

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This negatively impacts the animals that previously inhabited these frozen land masses by taking away their homes and the very ground that they walk on; the melted remnants of these ice caps also add water to the ocean, thus increasing global sea levels. ... We are condemning future generations of homo sapiens to an undesirable fate of pollution, energy scarcities, and a world that quite frankly, I would not wish to live in. ...

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Air weighs about 2 pounds per cubic yard at sea level. ... Sulphur Dioxide and Sulphur trioxide are some of the emissions that are made that react with water and produce the acid rain you can find around the world. ... OZONE: ITS ORIGIN The oxidant you will be almost sure to find in air pollution around the world is ozone-O3. ...

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Acid rain can also contaminate drinking water, damage vegetation, and destroy sea life. ... One of the most important things that is neglected is the fact that, there may not be a hugely visible affect of pollution where you are but in other parts of the world there is plenty; in other words, we have only one Earth. ... These systems are present at many gas stations in highly polluted areas.1 Some cities around the world are very dangerous to live in because of car pollution. ...

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Within the last 100 years it has increased the world's temperature 1degree ever year. This doesn't seem to be a big deal at first but when Islands such as Tuvalu in the south pacific begin to disappear due to the melting glaciers causing the sea level to rise you can begin to see why something needs to be done. ... Taking all of these problems in to account and since there is an estimated 600 million cars and trucks in the world (ACEEE 2003, 1) clearly something has to be done. ... California in the world's fifth largest economy home to 24 million motor vehicles, which are res...

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For example, he discuss that the polar ice caps are melting and that if this continues it could "raise the sea level worldwide by more than 20 feet" (12). ... The world has already faced many dangers and challenges in the past, and we have survived them all. ...

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