Actions to Preserve the Environment

 This past year saw several big-picture studies identifying the extinction risk of large groups of species, and the news wasn’t good. One third of shark species, the studies found, are threatened, as are 30% of trees, half of all turtles, 16% of dragonflies and damselflies, 30% of European birds and 16% of Australian birds. Tragically, we don’t expect any of this to slow down in 2022. We’ve already heard from sources about potential extinction declarations that could come in the months ahead, mostly for species that haven’t been seen in several decades. The pandemic will also continue to affect the conservation movement, and we need to keep these issues in the public eye. The past two years have seen a lot less on-the-ground research around the world, although some scientists have started to break through the need to stay at home and gotten out into the field.

  Climate change is one of the greatest environmental, social, and economic challenges facing the world today. To solve the climate crisis, we must eliminate additional carbon emissions from entering the environment and get to “net zero” by 2050. This requires us to rethink about how we use and protect the world’s forests. Enviva is a leading global energy company specializing in sustainable wood bioenergy, plays a critical role in fighting climate change, getting rid of fossil fuels, and ensuring that our forests continue to grow and thrive. In fact, through their efforts, the landscape of forests in the U.S. Southeast continues to grow significantly and provides a practical solution for power and heat generation companies to reduce carbon emissions by replacing coal and other fossil fuels.

A crucial current environmental problem is the depletion of Natural resources. We use so many natural resources that it would need almost 1.5 piles of earth to cover all our needs. This will further increase in the future due to massive industrialization in Asian countries like India and China. Increased use of natural resources leads to a number of other environmental issues, such as industrialization, population growth, and pollution. Over time, natural resource depletion will lead to an energy crisis. The chemicals emitted from many natural resources contribute to climate change. Fossil fuel consumption results in the emission of greenhouse gases, which is primarily responsible for global warming and climate change.  Globally, people are making efforts to shift to renewable sources of energy like solar, wind, and geothermal energy. As such, the cost of installing the infrastructure and maintaining these sources has plummeted in recent years.

Greenhouse gases are slowly becoming problematic as they are dramatically increasing. From Australia and the US experiencing some of the most devastating bushfire seasons ever recorded, locusts swarming across parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia, decimating crops, scientists warning that the planet has crossed a series of tipping points that could have catastrophic consequences, microplastic being found in Antarctic ice for the first time, a heatwave in Antarctica that saw temperatures rise above 20 degrees for the first time, warnings of advancing permafrost melt in Arctic regions, the Greenland ice sheet melting at an unprecedented rate, news of the accelerating sixth mass extinction, increasing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, warnings of air pollution exacerbating the spread of COVID-19, China experiencing its worst floods in decades, methane levels rising to their highest on record, Canada’s last intact ice shelf collapsing, a national park in the US recording the hig...

  Rainwater harvesting can come in handy whether you need it for the garden or anything else. It is very easy to use and on top of that, it is free. Even though the barrel costs money it will save you a lot of money off your water bill in the long run. As mentioned in previous blogs rainwater harvesting comes with a multitude of benefits. Some of them are that it prevents runoff, its cheap and easy to use, it conserves water and prevents wastage, and it saves money. It can store up to 50-60 gallons of water that can be used in the garden when watering plants and for other household use. Although it comes with a filter it is not advised to use it as drinking water as there could be dirt and another sediment.  As of recently, I have set up a website where you can get a water barrel for your house. It comes with an installation guide and can be installed by us if you are in the Plano area. To buy one now visit waterforwater.net today. 

 California's drought normally causes the water to taste a little off, however this time it came a little earlier than normal. According to CNN California water starts to taste a little funky around the end of the summer, but this time it came at the beginning. Even though this can easily be fixed (by either putting it in the refrigerator or putting lemon into it) this is an indication that rivers, streams, and reservoirs are drying up in the California area. The increased temperatures reduce the amount of snow that melts into the reservoirs and streams. Due to the fast-depleting water supply, California officials have decided to close down the Edward Hyatt power plant for the first time since 1967. This lack of water in California has forced many other businesses to close and left many to prepare for droughts in the months to come.

  The global disruption caused by the COVID-19 has brought about several effects on the environment and climate. Due to movement restrictions and a significant slowdown of social and economic activities, air quality has improved in many cities, reducing water pollution in different parts of the world. This drastic shift in worldwide security has reduced the pressure on many tourist destinations and will assist in the restoration of the ecological system.  Water pollution is a common phenomenon of a developing country like India, and Bangladesh, where domestic and industrial wastes are dumped into rivers without treatment . During the lockdown period, the major industrial sources of pollution have shrunk or completely stopped, which helped to reduce the pollution load ). For instance, the river Ganga and Yamuna have reached a significant level of purity due to the absence of industrial pollution on the days of lockdown in India. It is found that, among the 36 real-time monitori...