Essays and Research Papers on Environmental Issues & Ecology

A 5 page essay on the causes of river pollution and some of the solutions that are being implemented to cope with the problems. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

A 10 page overview of the problems of water pollution caused by domestic wastes. Discusses regulation and the factors which influence it and identifies two alternative methods for treatment and discharge. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 5 page outline of pollutant and other adverse environmental impacts to the Everglades. Identifies domestic wastewater, over development and the sugar industry as being the primary impacts to this extremely sensitive environmental area. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 5 page paper that argues the point that industry and an expanding population have done considerable damage to Florida's Everglades and the ecosystem that it supports. Emphasis is placed on the fact that the Everglades are being crowded by agricultural interests to the north and urban interests to the east, and the diversion ...

A 10 page overview of the concept of sustainability in relation to the treatment and disposal of domestic wastewater. Identifies two more sustainable alternatives than conventional chemical treatment and disposal into water bodies: reverse osmosis and manmade wetlands. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 4 page report discusses 'Ecoviews: Snakes, Snails, and Environmental Tales,' an enthusiastic treatise about protecting the earth's biodiversity. The book is unique in its focus on the American Southeast, a region too often neglected in articles or books addressing environmental issues. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 5 page overview of the environmental problem of saltwater intrusion. Provides details of occurrences currently being experienced in Florida. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

11 pages in length. One of the earth's most precious resources is in great peril. Water, the substance required by all living beings as a means of survival, is succumbing more and more to the ravages of pollutants, most -- if not all -- of which are the cause of humanity's environmental carelessness ...

A comprehensive 15 page discussion of the historic role that cars have played in polluting our atmosphere. The writer brings us up-to-date with an in-depth look at various fuel alternatives, the possibility of electric cars, and so forth. Numerous case examples and statistical information are provided. Bibliography lists more than 15 sources.

This 5 page essay explores the U.S. energy policy and global environmental concerns. Several issues are addressed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 5 page paper discussing the a few of the realities concerning the corporate world and the environment. Although many people may be under the delusion that pollution and the damaging of the environment is under control through rules, regulations, and human conscience many corporations are still involved in acts which damage the environment. A ...

A 6 page overview of the environmental effects of deforestation on Third World countries. Discusses clearcutting, impacts to the fragile ecologies and ancillary impacts such as global warming and interruption of the carbon cycle. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

A 5 page overview of deforestation and the negative effects which deforestation presents to medicine and the identification of plants and other biological materials which can be used to treat human disease. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 4 page paper examining the 'best' means for controlling the growth of pollution in any country—whether industrialized or developing. The paper briefly discusses air and water pollution, but concentrates more on the growth of the world's human population. Developing countries with burgeoning population centers have tried varying methods of controlling their population ...

This 8 page paper discuses the requirements of ISO 14001, which is the Environmental Management Systems Auditing process for companies. This new series, ISO 14000, will be a far reaching set of standards which will dramatically change the way companies address environmental issues. Although voluntary, international demand will result in companies who want to do ...

A 6 page overview of the use of microorganisms in oil spill cleanup. Includes a discussion of the evolution of bacteria and the characteristics which make them suitable for bio-remediation. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

An 8 page overview of the problems of domestic waste treatment and disposal. Outlines the practice of international disposal in third world countries and provides examples of appropriated treatment and domestic disposal alternatives. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 10 page paper discussing the effects of environmental cadmium. Cadmium is a naturally occurring element, a heavy metal found in conjunction with iron, zinc and copper ores. Once used heavily in electronics manufacturing and believed not to affect the water supply, research has discovered that cadmium does indeed leach through the soil, ...

This 5 page paper looks at the health of the electronics industry in today's shaky economy. The future of the industry is discussed in light of economic trends. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 6 page environmental engineering paper discussing alternatives to soil reclamation projects in which there were few active steps made in reclaiming contaminated soil, projects in which the preferred method of reclamation were of the 'wait and see' variety. Alternatives suggested include lowering soil pH so that the contaminants are more available for plant ...

6 pages in length. It is not as though no one saw the problem escalating long before it reached its current out-of-control proportion; rather, toxic waste and the myriad problems that accompany it have been noted for the past several decades. But it has only been in more recent years that the great ...

An 8 page paper which discusses the concept of household consumer waste by exploring definitions, impact of behavioral attitudes and its repercussions on a more environmentally-conscious society. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 12 page paper provides an investigation of the different environmental factors that impact the decision making process for highway construction. This paper considers the impacts of environment on the physical, structural, financial, economic and technological factors that are evaluated when considering the construction of a new highway. This paper also presents an ...

A 7 page paper discussing techniques for restoring damaged ecological systems after disaster. Bibliography lists 11 sources.

A 5 page overview of the implications of the 'World Scientists' Warning to Humanity' to soils. Recounts the havoc agriculture and modern and historic subsistence practices have dealt on the world's soils. Bibliography lists 9 sources.