In this article, the author talks about how sewage has gotten into main water systems because of the flooding in Texas. There are close to 500 sewage waste plants where Harvey hit and most of them experienced flooding. In addition to sewage overflows around forty industrial plants reported toxic chemical spills into water and the air. Transformers are bursting under water and that causes even more chaos.
There are many very dangerous things that can come from this. One major thing could be death because of the toxins getting into your system. Weather you ingest it or get it into an open wound from wading in it, it has the same harmful effect. The harm behind chemical spills is that it can cause damage like burning your skin and breathing it in can cause you to burn your lungs. PCBs have also been released due to transformers bursting. http://www.environmenttexas.org/news/txe/71-texas-schools-test-positive-lead-drinking-water
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Bees may soon be in danger of becoming extinct. This is all due to climate change making less flowers for bees to pollinate and quench their hunger. Many of these bee species live in the mountains where the snow melts earlier and extends the flower season. These bees then believe it is time to begin pollinating but there are not enough good flowers to go around. Bees live in annual cycles and have the quickest population affected by the climate change. There is a longer period where bees are living because their cycles are longer but cannot fully thrive because their food supply has decreased.
We can help these bees survive their rough patch by making enough healthy flowers for their colonies to forage and grow from. These flowers our dying because we are causing climate change. If they keep going down this downward slope we will begin to be affected by this. Bees are crucial to our agriculture and our natural plant communities. Without Bees our vegetation will die along with the rest of our fresh produce this valley depends one. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170929093356.htm Civilization has coined the phrase “survival of the fittest” since Darwin invented it. Does this mean we should just make surviving hard for every life to see if they can actually survive? In this article they discuss the hardships of Tit birds in the city. It is extremely hard for these birds to survive in an urbanized area due to the stresses it may encompass, but if they do survive this year they will be able to survive in the city for the rest of their lives. If this happens and they are able to survive they can thank their telomeres for their survival. A Telomere is the extremity of a chromosome and can only expand over time but if stressed will shorten with this birds chance of survival.
It is hard for animals to survive in an urbanized area for many reasons. One of these is due to our strange food. We process most of our food and when an animal sees this they are curious and put it in their mouth. This could make them sick and decrease their chance of survival. These birds are eating our food in shortening their Telomeres. We need to keep our processed food enclosed so that animals are not able to get to it. Another cause of this bird’s death is pollution. We as humans are extremely messy and do not care what we infect with our filth. Humans pollute our streaks, waters, and skies. This hurts the telomeres ability to grow and will shorten their life span. We need to save this bird from extinction and stop throwing our trash on the street and in the ocean. We also need to stop burning fossil fuels and drive electric cars. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170908205442.htm Ghana's water is destroying many lives due to it being highly contaminated. It is being contaminated by many different sources, one being sewage. Sewage plants all over Ghana are not properly treated and poor into the water. Another source of contamination is ship trash. Many ships travel the waters touching Ghana and dump their garbage into the ocean causing it to be highly unsafe for marine life and the shore of Ghana. The final way Ghana is being polluted is by its very own residents throwing their trash recklessly and not being smart about their recycling.
There are many ways they can save themselves from this deep hole they are digging. One way they can fix their pollution is by learning to recycle. By doing this they will decrease their outputs of harmful garbage and also create jobs, boosting the economy. This will also make landfills obsolete and save energy. Driving cars pollutes the air they breathe and if the citizens of Ghana cut back on the amounts of driving they do, they will make their green house gas emission go down. Ghana's air does not just affect them sole but will also spread and contaminate our air and contribute to carbon emission. We need to inform them how to fix this problem and ultimately save ourselves in the meantime by making our air cleaner and marine life safer. https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/ghana-committed-to-prevent-marine-pollution-asiamah.html |
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