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Human Perception And Environmental Changes: How they affect each other.

  INTRODUCTION  Over the years the environment has been changing from its natural setting, slowly to semi-natural and rapidly to what cannot be mentioned in the context of naturality due to human activities. According to NASA, The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 2.12 degrees Fahrenheit (1.18 degrees Celsius) since the late 19th century, Data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment show Greenland lost an average of 279 billion tons of ice per year between 1993 and 2019, while Antarctica lost about 148 billion tons of ice per year. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the acidity of surface ocean waters has increased by about 30%. What is the cause of all these rapid changes? Environmental change is a change or disturbance of the environment most often caused by human influences and natural ecological processes. Environmental changes include various factors, such as natural disasters, human interferences, or animal interaction. Envir...

The Ozone Layer

 Have you ever wondered what is special about these ozone layer you are seeing here and there on each post concerning climate change and other related environmental issues,well you have come to the right place to get the right information. Ozone Layer: Ozone Layer chemically represented as  O3,is a layer found in  the atmosphere,it occupied 70% of the stratosphere. The Ozone Layer is a protective blanket that protects the earth from ultraviolet rays,it protects the earth by absorbing the harmful rays coming into the earth surface,and letting only the usable one that can be absorbed by plants and animals without adversely affecting them reach the earth surface. The three molecules of oxygen that binds together to form the ozone layer (O3) are what makes the ozone layer special and thus,referred to as a protective blanket. Whenever the bond between the oxygen molecules breaks,the earth is no longer safe,the ozone layer start to deplet,and a hole is formed,when this happens ...
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