Environmental Studies Essays

Environmentally Friendly Alternatives to Leather

Example essay. Published: 23rd Sep 2019

Introduction This report addresses the current sustainability issues of leather production in the fashion industry. The main issues being the “toxic chemicals used in tanning and prod ...

Essay on the Conflict Between Humans and Elephants

Example essay. Published: 19th Apr 2021

The term human-wildlife conflict attempts to explain the complex relationship between humans and animal species. An example of this issue is the human-elephant conflict that is currently occurring across the globe. ...

Ethical Considerations When Feeding an Ever-growing World Population

Example essay. Published: 23rd Sep 2019

The ethical considerations when feeding an ever-growing world population   Introduction: Currently the global population is expanding at a rate of approximately 1 ...

Ethics of Seal Clubbing in Canada

Example essay. Published: 19th Jan 2018

Chet Merklin Jeff Smith Canadian Seal Clubbing Seals have it rough. They hunt for food, they eat, they nurture their young, they procreate, they sleep, and they survive. Their fate, however, isn’ ...

European Monetary Union’s effect on Europe

Example essay. Published: 15th Dec 2017

A currency is a form of money and is used when purchasing goods or services. Coins and paper money are both forms of currency. There are different types of currency for each country, for example the U ...

Evaluation of Environmental Policy Opportunties

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

Introduction   Discussing environmental policy is a hard subject because of the intricate nature and varied dynamics at work. It is a facet of the legal landscape that cannot b ...

Evaluation of the AR5 Conclusion of Anthropogenic Climate Change

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

1.0           Introduction The IPCC fifth assessment (AR5) was released in its entirety in November of 2014 demonstrating that human-ind ...

Evaluation of UK Legislation and Policy on Fracking

Example essay. Published: 4th Sep 2017

AN EVALUATION OF CURRENT UK PLANNING LEGISLATION AND POLICY MEASURES TO CONTROL THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF FRACKING ON WILDLIFE CONSERVATION   Chapter 1: Introduction Introduction The pac ...

Evangelical Christianity and Climate Change Policy in America

Example essay. Published: 2nd Apr 2019

A SECOND OPINION: EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY IN AMERICA Introduction As the largest historical contributor to climate change over the last two centuries (Matthews et al. ...

Exposure to Air Pollutants and Its Association with Respiratory Illness and Asthma

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Title:  Exposure to air pollutants in the San Joaquin Valley and its association with respiratory illness and asthma Introduction:  San Joaquin Valleyresidents are con ...

Factors Affecting Participation with Sustainability

Example essay. Published: 24th Nov 2017

Participation is an essential component of development and the degree of participation in development programs is a key determinant of success or failure. According to Bagherian et al. (2009) the act ...

Factors and Recommendations of the Global Decline of Honeybee Populations

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

Running Head: Honeybee Decline Executive Summary The following is research regarding the causes and trends of the honeybee decline as well as recommendations to mitigate this is ...

Factors Impacting UK Winter Wheat Crops

Example essay. Published: 4th Sep 2017

Summary Wheat is one of the main important cereal crops in the world. Also as one of the essential and important agricultural products. Wheat is considered as a strategic product due to its signific ...

Fast Fashion’s Threat to the Environment

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

Consumers and manufacturers should beware that fast fashion is seriously harmful to the environment. “Globalization has made it possible to produce clothing at increasingly lower prices,   ...

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Policy Analysis

Example essay. Published: 15th Dec 2017

Policy Analysis on Female Genital Mutilation FGM The policy on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), adopted by the Human Rights Commission of Ontario, Canada, in 1996 (and further revised it in 2000) ackn ...

Florida Panther’s Conservation Status

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

 The Florida Panther (Puma concolor coyri) is a subspecies of Puma concolor commonly known as mountain lion, cougar, or panther. The Florida panther is a large, carnivorous member of the Fel ...

Folklore Traditions and Paleontology

Example essay. Published: 4th Sep 2017

The scientific process frames information using empirical reason, a system that extracts valuable and seemingly unbiased facts of nature while often affording less room for sources of knowledge that ...

Formicidae Biodiversity in Texas Vegetation

Example essay. Published: 4th Sep 2017

A COMPARISON OF FORMICIDAE BIODIVERSITY IN NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE VEGETATION IN SOUTH TEXAS A study to determine how ant communities in non-native vegetation, specifically in Cenchrus ciliaris, diffe ...

Fossil Fuels: Contribution and Impact

Example essay. Published: 15th Dec 2017

Discuss the contribution of fossil fuel to modern human society and the environmental impact The importance of Fossil Fuels to human society cannot be overemphasized. Public services such as buses, tr ...

Fracking in the United States

Example essay. Published: 23rd Sep 2019

Fracking in the United States We have reached a point in time where the fundamental backbone of our entire society is fossil fuels. They are the fuel of our electricity, methods of tran ...

Future Cities: A Reflection from Sustainability

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

Chapter 1 1.1 Introduction The life on this earth started 4.5 billion years ago, since then it has seen the dawns of Civilizations, its development and emerging of cities. Thes ...

Fyre Festival: An Analysis of Local Citizen’s Recovery

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

INTRODUCTION This study will briefly describe the events that transpired surrounding Fyre Festival.  The research will focus on how the festival effected the local citizens of Exuma ...

Gbalahi Landfill Effects on the Environment

Example essay. Published: 4th Sep 2017

Beyond Technical Description: the State of the Gbalahi Landfill and its Effects on the Environment. CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0. Introduction One critical area of governance that has received huge ...

General Motors Corporation

Example essay. Published: 1st Jan 2015

Remote Environment Analysis General Motors Corporation (GM) has been a leader in the automobile industry but has been losing market share to foreign competitors. The current issues with the economy, h ...

Global Burden of E-Waste: Health and Environmental Impacts

Example essay. Published: 4th Sep 2017

Introduction E-waste or Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) – is the term used to describe old, end-of-life or discarded appliances using electricity which includes computers, con ...

Global Community Impact on Water Shortage: Article Analysis

Example essay. Published: 4th Sep 2017

MA447 Global Management Issues Taking Sides Worksheet Student Name: Jennifer R. Thomas Takings Sides Article Number and Name: Article 2.4 Can the Global Community Successfully Confront t ...

Global Trade: The Destruction of Flint, Michigan and Eastern Kentucky

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

Global Trade: The Destruction of Flint, Michigan and Eastern Kentucky Abstract This paper discusses globalization and the effects on communities, people, and business in Flint, ...

Global Warming as a Threat to the Earth

Example essay. Published: 3rd Nov 2020

Global warming is happening, given the overwhelming evidence of the greenhouse effect. If issues like sea-level rise, which scientific evidence has associated with increasing emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon monoxide cannot convince people that the planet is declining, then nothing will. ...

Global Warming Cause and Effect Essay

Example essay. Published: 16th Mar 2021

It is believed people’s careless use of fossil fuels are responsible for causing Global warming. Environmentalists say people do not realize the serious effects of their own actions. ...

Global Warming: Cause and Effect

Example essay. Published: 21st Dec 2021

Climate change is a natural phenomenon that is accelerating every year, due to several activities that as humans have helped to impact, in the great majority, negatively on the natural cycle of the environment. In order to provide a solution, its causes and effects must be known. ...

Global Warming: Causes and Effects

Example essay. Published: 15th Dec 2017

Global Warming is defined as the increase of the average temperature on Earth. As the Earth is getting hotter, disasters like hurricanes, droughts and floods are getting more frequent. It is responsib ...

Global Warming’s Effect on Wildlife

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

Global warming has been a blossoming topic throughout our nation for some time now. It has developed into a major issue due to the various ways it affects the many species that inhabit our planet ...

Globalization Free Trade

Example essay. Published: 1st Jan 2015

Global Deregulation: Risks and Opportunities in the Area of Free Trade INTRODUCTION Globalization has been one of the major driving forces for achieving the concept of a ‘borderless world and soci ...

Goals and objectives of Power Supermarkets

Example essay. Published: 1st Jan 2015

Introduction Prior to 1997, Pennys often shared sites with Power Supermarkets, also at the time an ABF subsidiary; however this practice ceased after the sale of PSL to Tesco in 1997. ABF decided to m ...

Green Building Worldwide Proposal

Example essay. Published: 3rd Nov 2020

CALGreen is a green building code that is mandatory first in the nation. The goal is to reduce the environmental footprint through sustainable operations and practice. ...

Green Logistics Management

Example essay. Published: 1st Jan 2015

Green logistics can be defined as coordinating the general logistical activities comprising freight transport, storage, inventory management, materials handling and all the relevant activities require ...

Green marketing: Promoting environmentally friendly products

Example essay. Published: 13th Apr 2017

Abstract Green marketing is marketing of products that are environmental safe. Companies market­ing their green achievements were once a small segment of forward-thinking organisations, but since gro ...

Greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change

Example essay. Published: 23rd Feb 2021

Climate change is the consequence of any kind of adjustments in the climate system. Change in climate is caused by fluctuations in the factors that influence climatic patterns. ...

Gulf Oil Case Study: Causes, Impacts and Future Risk Management

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

Gulf Oil Case Study Recognized as the worst oil spill in U.S. history, The Gulf oil spill that took shape on April 20, 2010 gives us detailed insight into what oil spill catastrophes can ...

Harmful Chemicals Environmental

Example essay. Published: 1st Jan 2015

Have the harmful effects of Environmental Chemicals upon Man and Ecosystems lessened since Rachel Carson published her book, Silent Spring in 1962? Almost fifty years after the publication of Silent ...

Health and Safety Challenges in the Mining Industry

Example essay. Published: 15th Dec 2017

1. Outline some of the key health and safety challenges that is faced by a mining company you are familiar with. The industry has experienced both high consequence low frequency events (disasters such ...

HEC-HMS Evaluation

Example essay. Published: 4th Sep 2017

HEC-HMS is a hydrological model that can be used to check the effect of a storm based event on a watershed or a continuous simulation. HEC-HMS is distributed model but it deals with a watershed as a ...

History and Factors of Climate Change

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

Climate change is a problem which is impossible to ignore in the world we live in especially at this present time. It’s important to that we realise the problems which are being caused as a ...

History of Salmon in the Pacific Northwest

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

 For hundreds of thousands of years, the state of Washington has been associated with many species of salmon. Due to the fertile environment and the accesibility to the sea, millions of salm ...

Hookers Chemical and Love Canal

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

When anyone thinks about some sort environmental disaster, what comes to mind? A large explosion or a huge meltdown in an industrial area? The love canal incident was not an instant meltdown but ...

How are Human Activities the Main Contributor to Climate Change?

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

 Climate change is one of the major environmental issues in our world. Scientists are inventing new solutions, such as nuclear power, a low-carbon electricity source, to reduce climate chang ...

How Can We Save Our Planet From Global Warming?

Example essay. Published: 3rd Nov 2020

The world is more aware of serious problems caused by global warming and rapidly move towards necessary actions. Repeated messages about environmental protection are spread out to every country. ...

How Climate Change Will Destabilize the Horn of Africa?

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Climate change is a growing problem in the modern world and will have a variety of negative effects. Climate change in the Horn of Africa has numerous negative implications. ...

How did Pterosaurs Move on the Ground?

Example essay. Published: 2nd Aug 2017

The locomotive manner of pterosaurs is a matter of intense dispute in the scientific community. The way that these prehistoric creatures traversed the ground is continually being contested. Did pter ...

How Does the Decline in Alligators Affect the Ecosystem?

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Abstract The wetlands/everglades are the unique area located in Southern Florida that include various amount of wildlife that are dependent on one another in survival. The Florida Evergl ...

How technology effects children

Example essay. Published: 1st Jan 2015

Technology is one of the principal driving forces of the future; it is transforming our lives and shaping our future at rates surprising in history, with profound implication which we can’t even ...

HR Going Green – the Switch to a Paperless Office

Example essay. Published: 16th Jul 2019

Objectives Investigation into successful and failed implementations of the paperless office idea. To assess the cost savings for the HR department. How much can be saved? Will the costs outweigh th ...

Human activity causing climate change

Example essay. Published: 11th Jun 2015

Climate is changing in a horrid way. The change is influenced both by natural reason and human activities. El Nino, the Earth surface temperature increased, acid rains and many phenomenons are damagin ...

Human Causes of Endangered Wildlife

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

A species is described as endangered when the entire population faces a serious risk of extinction. In the early twenty-first century, as human population growth, large-scale agriculture, and inc ...

Human-Gorilla Conflict During the DRC Civil Wars

Example essay. Published: 3rd Nov 2020

Civil unrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has resulted in a decline in eastern mountain gorillas that reside in the Virunga Mountains. During and after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, ...

Illegal Toxic Waste Dumping in Côte d’Ivoire

Example essay. Published: 21st Apr 2021

In 2006, the Probo Koala offloaded approximately 500 tonnes of toxic waste in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. The Panamanian registered ship was commissioned by the multinational corporation Trafigura Beheer BV. ...

Impact and Benefits of Minimizing Food Waste

Example essay. Published: 3rd Nov 2020

Food production is one of the largest drivers of global and environmental degradation and climate change, through the loss of biodiversity, water usage, interfering with the global nitrogen and phosphorus cycles and the certified fertilisers and pesticides. ...

Impact of Air Pollution to the Environment in Malaysia

Example essay. Published: 28th Sep 2017

1.0 Introduction Health impact assessment (HIA) is the process of evaluating the possible impact of a biological, chemical, physical or social factor on specific human population system under a fixe ...

Impact of Animal Products on the US Environmental Footprint

Example essay. Published: 23rd Sep 2019

Research Article Critique  The purpose of the study was to demonstrate that animal-sourced products drive the food-related environmental footprint in the United States. Beef is the ...

Impact of Brexit on the Agricultural Bill

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

The agricultural sector plays a vital role in the UK’s economy, contributing £109 billion in 2015 (Defra, 2017). The farming industry forms the core of the agricultural sector and acts as the ...

Impact of Cane Toad Introduction Into Australian Habitat

Example essay. Published: 28th Mar 2018

Biology Issue Report: The impact of the introduction of Cane toads into the Australian habitat. Cane toads (Rhinella Marina) were introduced to north-eastern Australia in 1935 in an attempt to contr ...

Impact of Chocolate Production on the Environment

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

Production of Chocolate Chocolate falls under the category of an unsustainable food. During the process, cocoa is an essential ingredient used. It originates from the seeds (cocoa beans) ...

Impact of Climate Change on African Countries

Example essay. Published: 18th Feb 2019

The Effects of Climate Change on Volatile African Countries In the fall of 2015, United States Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders received an onslaught of criticism when he attributed the rise ...

Impact of Climate Change on Morocco

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

The burning of fossil fuels to produce energy and the consumption of natural resources by ever growing global populations is to blame for the release of greenhouse gases. I will cover background ...

Impact of Climate Change on the Coral Reef and Honeybees

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

Many animals and plants are suffering from immature human behavior, which would reflect with severe uncontrolled issues. Climate change is one of the most significant problems in which society st ...

Impact of Climate Change on the Future of Transportation

Example essay. Published: 23rd Sep 2019

How will climate change affect the future of transportation? A UKessays.com sample thesis looks into the matter. ...

Impact of Climate Change on the Great Barrier Reef

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

One of the biggest issues which are facing us today is that of climate change. As climate change has commonly been determined to be the result of increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosph ...

Impact of Climate Change on the Weather

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Student submitted essay to UKessays.com titled Impact of Climate Change on the Weather. We offer expert-led academic writing services. ...

Impact of Deforestation

Example essay. Published: 4th Sep 2017

The destruction of our planets forest is one of the most important modern environmental issue today. People, 1.6 billion, are dependent on forests for their livelihoods with some 300 million living ...

Impact of Ecological Changes on Pika Survival Rates

Example essay. Published: 23rd Sep 2019

Pika survival rates dry up with low moisture: In the Pacific Northwest, dry air interacts with low snow conditions to affect pika abundances at different elevations. Source: Ecological ...

Impact of Environmental Changes on Evolution

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Environmental Changes and Evolution Variations in environmental conditions have acute significance for the structure of ecological communities. Changing global environmental conditions h ...

Impact of Global Warming

Example essay. Published: 16th Jan 2018

Milagros Hoyos Global Warming Global Warming is an international phenomenon where the weather and temperature change unpredictably and fast (when greenhouse gases get trapped in the atmosphere). Si ...

Impact of Global Warming on Climate Change

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING  Global warming (climate change) is a worldwide issue currently happening that affects everything living on the Earth. The main eight geographic re ...

Impact of Globalisation on Land Use and Food Security

Example essay. Published: 4th Sep 2017

Discuss the impact of globalisation on land use and food security in developed tropical areas. Globalisation over the past decades has impacted on major fields worldwide. It connects the world throu ...

Impact of Globalization and Population Increase on Climate Change

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure  Globalization and Automation Introduction Globalization and Automation are referred to as two megatrends which are influe ...

Impact of Littering on the Environment

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Littering Have you ever seen an animal choking on a piece of litter? Why should an animal die because of a humans laziness? E very year the ocean winds up having 1.4 billion pounds of li ...

Impact of Natural Disaster on Infrastructure

Example essay. Published: 17th Aug 2017

We humans cannot envision when a regular calamity happens, and more often than not, when a natural disaster happens it brings a lot of wreckage and demise. Recent events show that a significant incr ...

Impact of Plastic on the Environment

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Plastic is one of the synthetic materials that has played an essential role in every single moment in our life. Plastic is strong, lightweight, thus plastics have become the most popular products ...

Impact of Plastics and Strategies for Waste Management

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Policy Memo  Introduction/Key Messages The properties that make plastics ideal for human use such as being lightweight, strong and having a durable physical configuration a ...

Impact of Pollution on Millennials

Example essay. Published: 17th May 2019

Cause and Effect Essay Pollution is a very serious problem in society today. The lives of millennials are constantly being impacted by the worsening situation of the Earth. The definition of a mil ...

Impact of Population Growth on the Planet

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

 Abstract This paper’s purpose is to describe and address the problem of the growing population on Earth. I will begin by explaining the issue, why and how it is occurring. Additi ...

Impact of the Aviation Industry on Global Warming

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

Global warming might be the biggest problem that humanity has yet to face, because it involves all of us, wealth, health, nothing can provide guaranteed future unless the problem is fixed or rath ...

Impact of the Consumption of Shark Fin Soup

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

The Global Citizen Shark fin soup, is considered as one of the most controversial meals in the world since the demand for the dish has caused the near extinction of several shark species ...

Impact of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

Example essay. Published: 15th Dec 2017

ABSTRACT Extensive researches carried out have pointed to the fact that impact prediction in the EIA process has been problematic and it lacked transparency, scientific rigour or both (Badr et al 2004 ...

Impact of the US Leaving the Paris Agreement

Example essay. Published: 23rd Sep 2019

Task 1 Reasons why the world needs and has an agreement like Paris Agreement According to Brundtland report of 1987, sustainable development is the developments that enable the ...

Impact of Urban Living on Biodiversity and Ecosystems

Example essay. Published: 4th Sep 2017

  It is estimated that almost more than one half of the world’s population is presently living in urban areas (Sakieh et al. 2016; Weigi et al. 2014). In many parts of the world, increasing ...

Impact of Wind Farms on Wild Life & Avian Mortality

Example essay. Published: 4th Sep 2017

Humanity depending on oil, coal and gas to produce energy is destroying many ecosystems around the world. They are reaching crisis levels, finding alternative energy source is critical. Wind power, ...

Impacts of Cannabis Farming on The Emerald Triangle

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Part 1   “Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere!” (Washington, 1794). We followed this advice, but it was with little thought of the impact th ...

Impacts of Climate Change on Urban Areas

Example essay. Published: 3rd Nov 2020

This paper examines the current literature in general impacts of climate change on urban areas in Europe and how nature-based arrangements could build our versatile limit and diminish the negative impacts of an evolving atmosphere. We also discuss the effects on ecological, hydrological, urban temperatures and social factors. ...

Impacts of Climate Change on Women’s Rights

Example essay. Published: 25th Feb 2019

Impacts of Climate Change on Women’s Human Rights: Bangladesh perspective 1. Introduction At present, the consequences of climate change including increased temperature, increased sea level, ...

Impacts of Cosmetic Waste

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

What is cosmetic waste? Cosmetics are defined as any product designed to improve one’s appearance, such as shampoo or eyeliner. Cosmetic waste, on the other hand, occurs when cosmetic ...

Impacts of Crop Pesticide Contamination on Human Health

Example essay. Published: 3rd Nov 2020

Ultimately, pesticides were synthesized as a solution for pest control. However, many bugs and insects have developed a resistance to the pesticides, making them ineffective and requiring stronger chemicals. ...

Impacts of Deforestation in Ghana

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

Abstract The motivation behind this task was to distinguish the issues and arrangement of deforestation, just as some restorative proportions of deforestation. This examination is signif ...

Impacts of Deforestation on Climate Change

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Deforestation and Climate Change    The ways in which humans interact with the environment can have detrimental changes to the worlds systems. These practices have co ...

Impacts of Envrionmental Toxins

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

The Toxic Truth  In today’s day and age, there are a plethora of different things that are destroying the environment. Of course, there are the obvious things such as oil spills a ...

Impacts of Global Warming and Climate Change

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Climate, known as series of temperature, air, pressure, and rain over a long span of time, is part of everyday life. There are various types of climate all over the globe such as tropical, sub-tr ...

Impacts of Green Energy Production on Ireland

Example essay. Published: 4th Sep 2017

An Evaluation of the Impacts of Green Energy Production on the Flora and Fauna of Ireland. ...

Impacts of Huminty on Earth’s Environment and Ecosystems

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Humanity is racing toward an uninhabitable Earth. Changing climates come and go in the natural course of time, and humanity has thus far simply weathered them. In the 19th century, however, human ...

Impacts of the Incineration of Municipal Solid Waste

Example essay. Published: 18th May 2020

Incineration of municipal solid waste Introduction As the growth of population in cities is constantly increasing, it causes the amount of waste generated to rise at a rapid rat ...

Impacts of Water Scarcity and Resolution Strategies

Example essay. Published: 8th Feb 2020

Clean Water and Sanitation Today, humanity has become acutely aware of all past and present errors that are associated with the wrong handling of nature. This is due to the fact that mo ...