Category: Greenhouse Gas

  • Cleaner Transportation Reducing Greenhouse Emissions

    We see every day the use of person vehicles and how much we depend on them as a society. People in this society travel to work or school by car as it is seen as the most efficient way. We can complain about the issue of traffic, but the individual would still sit in traffic,…

  • Effects of Gas Emissions on Global Warming

    During a 2014 Climate Summit, the Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki-Moon stated, Climate change has happened because of human behavior, therefore its only natural it should be us, human beings, to address the issue. It may not be too late if we take the decisive actions today. Ban Ki-Moon gave this speech 5…

  • Examine the Ways in Which Humans Impact on Natural Geochemical Cycles

    A geochemical cycle describes the pathway in which chemical elements transfer within the lithosphere (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2014). Examples discussed in this essay are the carbon and phosphorus cycles which are both essential for the development of life. The groundwater aspect of the water cycle is also included, as it involves the movement…

  • Dangerous Effects of Methane Gas in Atmosphere

    Methane is a chemical compound (CH4) including one atom of carbon and four atoms of hydrogen.And it was discovered and isolated by Alessandro volta during his studies between 1776 and 1778 when he was studying marsh gas from lake maggiore. Its a tetrahedral molecule with four C-H bonds and at room temperature (20 °C) and…