Analysis report

Global environmental
change
By Advait Bigala
6-A

Inquiring Questions
Inquiry questions
Factual What is the environment?
Natural environment[change | change source]
Main page: Natural environment
In biology and ecology, the environment is all of the
natural materials and living things, including
sunlight. This is also called the natural environment.

Some people call themselves environmentalists.

They think we must protect the environment, to keep
it safe. Things in the environment that we value are
called natural resources. For example, fish, sunlight,
and forests. These are renewable natural resources
because they come back naturally when we use
them. Non-renewable natural resources are
important things in the environment that are limited
for example, ores and fossil fuels.
Nowadays the environment is polluted with harmful
gases.
source-https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment

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What Is Happening To Our Environment?
By Stacey B., Ware, MA

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Our environment is in need of a lot of work.
The ozone layer is quickly rotting away; the
waters are polluted; and the rain forest is
rapidly shrinking in size due to the
ignorance of land developers. So why isn't
anything being done? Everyone thinks if
they ignore the problem, it will go away.
Granted there are many people who do more
than their share when it comes to taking
care of our planet, but it still isn't enough.
We all need to get together and start
recycling our plastics and papers, sorting
our trash and reduce cutting down our trees.
After all, we only have one planet.

What are the natural aspects of the

environment?
Environmental Aspects: The Basics The
identification of environmental aspects is an
important step towards recognizing their
impacts on our planet. This proves helpful in
setting and formulating objectives, targets,
and other programs that may be directed
towards solving environmental problems. 1.
Definition of Environmental Aspect
Environmental Aspect is an element of an

organization's activities, products or

services that can interact with the
environment. There are two types of
environmental aspects: (i) Direct
Environmental Aspect Activities over which
a company can be expected to have an
influence and control. For example,
emissions from processes. (ii) Indirect
Environmental Aspect Actual or Potential
activities over which the organization can
be expected to have an influence, but no
control. For example, supply chain
controlled aspects, customer controlled
aspects, aspects managed elsewhere within
the same company.

How are we destroying the

environment?
Humans are destroying the environment through ways such as burning fossil
fuels, deforestation, farming and industry, all of which produce copious
amounts of greenhouse gases. The phenomenon of global warming is argued

to be caused by humans due to the many ways humans pollute the

environment with greenhouse gases.
https://www.reference.com/science/destroying-environment-de752a6876d0b563#

Why is it important to
care about the
Environment?
Debatable Is man greatest threat to the
Environment?
https://www.reference.com/science/destroying-environment-de752a6876d0b563#

U of T Engineering researchers Min Liu (left), Yuanjie Pang and their team designed a way to
efficiently reduce climate-warming carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, a useful chemical
building block for fuels such as methanol, ethanol and diesel.
Credit: Marit Mitchell, U of T Engineering

Turning carbon dioxide into stored energy sounds like science fiction:
researchers have long tried to find simple ways to convert this
greenhouse gas into fuels and other useful chemicals. Now, a group of
researchers led by Professor Ted Sargent of the University of Toronto's
Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering have found a more efficient
way, through the wonders of nanoengineering.
Drs. Min Liu and Yuanjie Pang, along with a team of graduate students and post-doctoral
fellows in U of T Engineering, have developed a technique powered by renewable energies
such as solar or wind. The catalyst takes climate-warming carbon-dioxide (CO2) and converts
it to carbon-monoxide (CO), a useful building block for carbon-based chemical fuels, such as
methanol, ethanol and diesel.

"CO2 reduction is an important challenge due to inertness of the molecule," says Liu. "We
were looking for the best way to both address mounting global energy needs and help the
environment," adds Pang. "If we take CO2 from industrial flue emissions or from the
atmosphere, and use it as a reagent for fuels, which provide long-term storage for green
energy, we're killing two birds with one stone."
The team's solution is sharp: they start by fabricating extremely small gold "nanoneedles" -the tip of each needle is 10,000 times smaller than a human hair. "The nanoneedles act like
lightning rods for catalyzing the reaction," says Liu.
When they applied a small electrical bias to the array of nanoneedles, they produced a high
electric field at the sharp tips of the needles. This helps attract CO2, speeding up the
reduction to CO, with a rate faster than any catalyst previously reported. This represents a
breakthrough in selectivity and efficiency which brings CO2 reduction closer to the realm of
commercial electrolysers. The team is now working on the next step: skipping the CO and
producing more conventional fuels directly.
Their work is published in the journal Nature.
"The field of water-splitting for energy storage has seen rapid advances, especially in the
intensity with which these reactions can be performed on a heterogeneous catalyst at low
overpotential -- now, analogous breakthroughs in the rate of CO2 reduction using renewable
electricity are urgently needed," says Michael Graetzel, a professor of physical chemistry at
cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne and a world leader in this field. "The University of
Toronto team's breakthrough was achieved using a new concept of field-induced reagent
concentration."
"Solving global energy challenges needs solutions that cut across many fields," says
Sargent. "This work not only provides a new solution to a longstanding problem of CO2
reduction, but opens possibilities for storage of alternative energies such as solar and wind."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160803140144.htm

Conclusion
I conclude that global warming is important for everyone
because it seems to affect people more than other global
environmental issues. There are many ways to stop global

warming. We should spread awareness to many people

because they dont care for the environment. If they dont
listen then we should try to join a save the environment
group so we can have a nice and clean place to live.