Environmental science laws and treaties
APES Summer Assignment 2006: Laws and Treaties
1) Antarctic Treaty
A- Antarctic Treaty, it came into force June 23 1961, and was adopted at the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Peru, May/June 1999, International.
B- The Treaty covers the area south of 60°̊S latitude. Its obj....
Exxon Valdez 10 years later
When people hear the phrase "oil spill: they think a bunch of black stuff all in the water. Well there is a lot more to it then just that. It is an economical disaster as well as an environmental one. As you read along you will see how devastating this one oil spill, the Exxon Valdez, really was ....
Global Environment, what do you do to protect your beautiful planet?
Global Environment, what do you do
to protect your beautiful planet?
People were living in a beautiful planet by good environment. In our the world environment is the main thing that every body need for living such as: Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa-etc. what is environment? Why people ne....
Oil
Oil, a powerful and dangerous substance, secreted naturally, is part of a cycle by nature, but if humans interfere with this cycle, things can go horribly wrong. Excess oil can be put into places where it doesn't belong, and nature is disrupted. A tanker spill can be accidental, or on purpose. In ca....
Oil Issue Heats Up
Oil Drilling Issue Heats Up Arctic
Should Congress feed Americans insatiable lust for fuel or preserve a pristine natural resource? President Bush has presented Congress with a request to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. According to a recent article in USA Today, President....
oil spill and its affects on Florida Economy
On April 20th of 2010, A major disaster struck The Gulf of Mexico. A BP oil rig exploded and dumped approximately 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf which adds up to approximately $21.1 billion in penalties. Remember the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989? That disaster spilled onto the rocky beaches ....
Oil Spills
An oil spill can be defined as an accidental or deliberate dumping of oil or petroleum products into the ocean, or on land and possibly into rivers or lakes. Between one and ten million metric tons of oil are put into the oceans every year. This oil is released, mostly in small amounts from tankers....
Texan History
Texan, which is the 28th state in the United States, was once separate from the rest of the Union as many states were. It was once also a Republic of its own. The Texans held a convention at Washington on the Brazos and adopted a declaration of independence on March 2, 1836. It shared a constitution....
To Mine Or Not To Mine?
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an ore body. Materials extracted by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock salt and potash. In other words, mining can be called th....
TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES of OIL and GREASE
The oil processing industry includes petroleum refining, used oil re-refining, petrochemical processing, crude oil and natural gas production, and related chemical.
The most important pollutants in the oil processing wastewaters are conventional pollutants such as oil and gr....
What will be the short-term and long-term consequences of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ?
The world-wide environmental and economic disaster of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is starting to take effect. On Tuesday April 20, this marked the day of the uncontrolled explosion which caused the sinking of an oil rig off the coast of New Orleans. As a consequence of this, an estimated 800....
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