ES101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Microplastics, Overfishing, Global Warming
23 Oct 2018
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Oceans have currents (clockwise), picks the waste and bring to the centre of the ocean causing a giant garbage pack. Large rivers deliver heavy nutrient loads to ocean. Destructive when in water, floats and kills animal life. Natural shorelines vegetation and habitat being steadily removed and converted by people. Coral reefs are dying human impacts on coastal zones. Atmospheric carbon concentrations are altering ocean chemistry. Global warming is altering sea surface temperatures. Consuming more resources than the enviroment can provide. Fatehpur sikri ( water scarcity, regional conflict) Social movements with aims of improving/protecting aspects of the environment. Use scientific and social science methods to generate continually imporved understanding of earth, its system and human role within them. Global anthropogenic change: the changes induced by human activity. Cumulative: change of similar nature in multiple regions have global consequences. Ecosystem: distinctive biotic community and the abiotic systems with which it interacts. Biotic community: identifiable groupings of animals, plants, microbes.
