From the way you travel and consume food to your energy consumption and water usage, every of these activities have a huge impact on the environment. Reducing one’s carbon footprint is a great way to help reduce global carbon emissions. Here are 5 ways to start an ethical and green living: 1. Reducing air travel…
Light Pollution is Threatening Ecosystems
Light pollution has nothing to do with energy consumption or turning off the light when you leave a room. It is the loss of darkness due to our excessive needs for outdoor lighting. A darkness that is essential for the survival of thousands of nocturnal animals that wait for the night to start their ‘day’….
The three core environmental protection efforts
How we can reduce the effects of environmental problems, and keep our environment more sustainable? This involves three aspects: Biological, Physical, and Human. The Biological aspect focuses on the importance of biodiversity and the actions we can take to conserve basic ecosystem functions. For example: introducing some key species like the genetically engineered honey bee…
The Environment and Factors Affecting it
In simple terms, the environment is the surrounding of each organism. For a plant in the forest, it would be the soil, insects, animals and other plants. For an animal in the zoo, it would be the cage, the landscape in the cage and the other animals with whom it is sharing space in the…
What is ecology ?
Ecology is the study of the interaction of all living organisms in the ecosystem. It studies the complexity of physical interactions among trees, plants, animals, humans and the smallest microorganisms under the earth – on how their behavior affects the atmosphere. Ecology helps us to interpret the world around us and can positively influence us…