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Environmental Issues - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Runoff: Excess water from rain, snowmelt, or irrigation that earth cannot absorb
        
        Introduce toxins that disrupt entire marine food webs
        
        Ex. Snowmelting brings acid shock into marine ecosystem
    - - Toxic chemical
        
        Metals like mercury and cadmium accumulate in fish tissues
      - Excess nutries
        
        Toxic enter the food chain via microcopic organism
    - - Does not belong in our natural environment
      - Plastic does not break down organically
        
        break down into smaller pieces: Microplastic, which is impossible to remove.
  - - - ingest plastic while feeding
        
        If an animal die, food web is disrupted
        
        When animals do not find food, they migrate and it disrupted marine ecosystem
      - Ghost fishing
        
        Abandoned or lost fishing nets and traps that are let in the ocean
      - Noise pollution
        
        Desorientation in the animals, especially waves
    - - More pollution = More need of technology to cleaned it up so that it could be used for human consume
      - Beach
        
        Uncleaned spaces
  - - - The new innovation of technology could be use to extract toxins from the marine environment. Moreover, community-driven field operations contribute to the active cleanup of beaches
        
        The Ocean Cleanup= massive barried towed by vessels through hig-concentration zones acting as an artifical coastilen allowing animal to mantain safe and can swim underneath
- - - - Causes
        
        Mainly land-use change. Conversion of habitats
        
        Convert it into agricultural systems
        
        Ilegal wildlife trade
      - Effects
        
        More than 500 species of land animals are on the brink of extinction
        
        Likely to be lost within 20 years
        
        Scientist assure that without human destrction of nature, the rate of loss would have taken thousand of years
      - Solutions
        
        International agreements
        
        Several safeguard nature groups could be aligned with countries with frameworks . Moreover, by the elimination economic subsidies that encourage environmental destructive practices such as industrial overfishing or fossil fue usage.
- - - - Cutting down 150 trees in Mexico just to create a new amusement park ride at Six Flags; does teenage fun require destroying trees?
    - - Illegal cattle ranching is the single largest driver of deforestation in the Amazon, accounting for roughly 80% of current forest loss in countries like Brazil and Colombia.
  - - - Tropical rainforests house over 80% of terrestrial plant, insect, and animal species. Clearing these areas causes mass biodiversity loss and pushes countless species toward extinction.
    - - Forests act as vital carbon sinks, absorbing greenhouse gases. When trees are cut down or burned, this stored carbon is released into the atmosphere, making deforestation a leading cause of global warming.
    - - Tree roots anchor the topsoil. Without them, the nutrient-rich topsoil washes or blows away, severely reducing the land's agricultural productivity over time and increasing the risk of landslides and floods.
- - - - Most cars use gasoline or diesel to work. When the fuel burns inside the engine, it produces harmful gases like carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. These gases pollute the air and contribute to global warming.
    - - During traffic jams, cars stay turned on even when they are not moving. This wastes fuel and creates extra smoke and harmful gases. Long traffic can increase pollution levels very quickly.
  - - - For short distances, walking or riding a bicycle is a healthy and eco-friendly option. It produces no pollution and also improves physical health.
  - - - Breathing polluted air can cause health problems such as asthma, coughing, allergies, and lung diseases. Children and older people are more affected by dirty air.