Role of Human Activity Which Aggravated Reduction in

ROLE OF HUMAN
ACTIVITY WHICH
AGGRAVATED
REDUCTION IN
ICEBERG
MEHUL KHURANA
8 ‘A’
Ecological Footprint
Reducing environmental impacts through sustainable
use of natural resources is an important strategy for
governments and businesses worldwide. However,
finding suitable indicators for such resource use
represents two main challenges (Best et al., 2008).
First, they should address environmental impacts of
a broad spectrum of resource use; thus, aggregate
indicators are necessary. Second, they should
consider environmental impacts in the entire life
cycle of resource use. Thus, the challenges demand
that aggregate, life-cycle indicators be developed.
Several aggregated indicators are capable of
monitoring the life-cycle environmental impact of
natural resource use; Ecological Footprint is one.
Ecological Footprint measures how much land and
sea area a human population requires to sustain its
prevailing way of living. The sum of these
constitutes an Ecological Footprint indicator. Thus,
the Ecological Footprint concept entails both a
method and an indicator produced by it.
Environmental impacts from the extraction of minerals for the
clean energy transition, and the integration of these into
evaluation methods, are an area of increasing research efforts in
the field of critical minerals. There are many potential
environmental impacts, but there are two broad perspectives on
them—the local and the global or generalized perspectives.
Techniques such as LCA are currently used in evaluating
mineral criticality as an indicator of the potential
environmental risk associated with certain metal supply chains.
Local impacts are often more relevant—particularly for mining,
which is geographically fixed due to geology. Therefore, further
methods need to be produced to better incorporate these
localized impacts.
• Environmental impacts are changes in the natural or built environment,
resulting directly from an activity, that can have adverse effects on the air,
land, water, fish, and wildlife or the inhabitants of the ecosystem. Pollution,
contamination, or destruction that occurs as a consequence of an action, that
can have short-term or long-term ramifications is considered an
environmental impact. Most adverse environmental impacts also have a direct
link to public health and quality of life issues. Several successful reductions
in pollution levels have been attributed to stricter regulations, including levels
of carbon monoxide and more recent reduction in fine particulate matter.
• Mass transit, as a result of the operations and maintenance of infrastructure,
facilities, and vehicles, has numerous potential environmental impacts to
manage, including air pollution and greenhousae gas from energy use, noise,
and vibrations, water discharges, waste removal of passenger trash, harmful
materials such as lead-based paint, mercury, PCBs, asbestos, contaminated
soil, and groundwater. Both train and bus operations have significant
environmental issues to manage on an on-going continuous basis. Besides
regulatory compliance, it befits an agency to reduce environmental impacts in
order to pollute less, protect natural resources, and reduce liability and save
costly impacts to budgets.
Marine Transportation an
d Energy
Use
Environmental impacts from shipping have been the focus of increasing attention over
the past decades, primarily focused on waterborne discharges and spills of oil,
chemical, and sewage pollution. A number of international treaties and national laws
have been adopted, along with industry best practices, to prevent these pollution
releases through accident or substandard operation. However, the shipping industry is
seen as an important hybrid between land-based transportation and large stationary
power systems. On the one hand, these are non-point-source vehicles operating on a
transportation network of waterways; on the other hand, these vehicles operate ship
systems that compare to small power-generating plants or factories. As industry
leaders and policymakers at state, federal, and international levels recognize these
facts, environmental and energy performance is being measured and regulated. Recent
efforts to mitigate environmental impacts from shipping (for example, invasive species
in ballast water, toxic hull coatings, and air emissions) are relatively new for the
• The rising temperature of the Earth has,
without doubt, been responsible for
melting glaciers throughout history.
Today, the speed with which
climate change is progressing might
render them extinct in record time. Let us
take a detailed look at the causes behind
glacial melting:
• CO2 emissions: the atmospheric
concentration of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases (GHGs) produced by
industry, transport, deforestation
and burning fossil fuels, amongst other
human activities, warm the planet and
cause glaciers to melt.
• Ocean warming: oceans absorb 90% of
the Earth's warmth, and this fact
affects the melting of marine
glaciers, which are mostly located near
the poles and on the coasts of Alaska
(United States).
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