Marine Biodiversity Conservation within the Framework of Impure Public Goods

Ecosystem and biodiversity are facing increasing threats, and their loss affects the humans. In order to produce a varied ecosystem goods and services, humans depend on the natural system, and human involvement ranges from direct application of certain food spices or medicines to climate regulation. In the facing of growing populations and increasing human economic […]

The most severe natural disaster in Japan was the earthquake called Great Tohoku Earthquake. It occurred on March 11, 2011, in the northeastern part of Japan. A powerful earthquake with Richter scale of magnitude 9.0 shook the northeastern coast of Honshu Island and caused a large tsunami that mostly destroyed Tohoku region. Japan’s scientists predicted […]

The climate system consists of the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. The atmosphere plays a crucial role in the process of climate formation. Different regions of the planet have different amounts of precipitation. Some of the regions are dry and some are humid. Such mechanisms as well as hot and cold streams, winds, and latitude […]

Introduction In their article “Cultivated land and food supply in China” in Land Use Policy, Doctor Hong Yang, a corresponding author from Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology and Professor of Institute of Geography of the Chinese Academy of Science Xiubin Li analyze the changes in farmland in the People’s Republic of China […]

For many decades, global warming has been regarded as a global calamity owing to the disastrous effects it causes to the environment. When there is an increase in temperature of the environment, it leads to an imbalance of atmospheric components, hence resulting in global warming. Scientists are in agreement that global warming is either man-made or caused by natural factors such as emission of toxic greenhouse gases into the environment.

This summary concerns the article ‘Acid Rain in Norway’, by Nick Middleton, which was published in Environment Today. The aim of the article is to show the negative effects acid rains have on nature, people’s health and the condition of buildings in Norway and how the country is trying to tackle this problem.