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Environmental Pollution It was the industrial revolution that gave birth to environmental pollution as we know it today. Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy, such as noise, heat or light. Pollutants, the components...
Natural Environment The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial. The term is most often applied to the Earth or some parts of Earth. This environment encompasses the interaction of all living species, climate, weather and natural resources that affect human...
Our Common Environment What are the most important of our common environmental problems? Environment is whatever outside an organism surrounds it and in which it lives. It may be a geographical region, a certain climatic condition, the pollutants or the noise around the organism. The natural environment contains a mosaic...
What Is Recycling? Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. It is an alternative to “conventional” waste disposal that can save material and help lower greenhouse gas emissions. Recycling can prevent the waste of potentially useful materials and reduce the consumption of fresh raw...
Remember Conservation Remember Conservation is about conservation in Islam. The fact that necessitated by His Name of All Wise, the All-Glorious Maker follows the lightest way, the shortest path, the easiest fashion, the most beneficial form shows that there is no wastefulness, futility, and absence of benefits in the nature...
Conservation As Ethic Conservation’s goals include protecting species from extinction, maintaining and restoring habitats, enhancing ecosystem services and protecting biological diversity. A range of values underlie conservation, which can be guided by biocentrism, anthropocentrism, ecocentrism and sentientism. There has recently been a movement towards evidence-based conservation which calls for greater...
Water For Life The human being’s biological need for water is modest. A dozen or so cupfuls a day are all that are required for survival. There are about 1,360 million cubic kilometres of water on the earth. If all the water, on the planet; from oceans, lakes, rivers, the...
The Evolution Of The Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850–1920 is an online exhibition from the Library of Congress‘ American Memory series. It documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America’s natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts,...
Man And Ecology: An Islamic Perspective This article covers Man And Ecology: An Islamic Perspective. Environmental Crisis “When the earth is shaken with a (violent) shaking, And the earth reveals what burdens her, And man says: What has befallen her? On that day she shall tell her story….” (Qur’an 99:1-4)...
Islam And The Protection Of The Environment This article covers Islam And The Protection Of The Environment. Introduction The Holy Qur’an states that Man is the noblest of created beings: Man is God’s vicegerent on His earth; it was to Man that God made the Angels prostrate themselves; God breathed...
Environment In The Qur’an This article covers Environment In The Qur’an. The Approach to the Environment Question of the Qur’an and its Contemporary Commentary, the Risale-i Nur Introduction Although it was only with effect from the second half of the 20th century that environmental problems became some of the chief...
Islam & the Environment This article covers Islam & the Environment. What is expected of a viceroy, a trustee or ruler? If those over whom one commands power are killed without cause, have their homes polluted heedlessly with toxic wastes, and have deformities and diseases resulting from the careless and...
Environmental Epidemiology Environmental epidemiology is a branch of epidemiology concerned with determining how environmental exposures impact human health. This field seeks to understand how various external risk factors may predispose to or protect against disease, illness, injury, developmental abnormalities, or death. These factors may be naturally occurring or may be introduced...
Difference Between Conservation And Preservation Conservation and preservation are both methods that are very much necessary to safeguard the future of certain vital phenomena of the world such as the environment, natural energies among other things. However, sometimes these two words have been seen to be used interchangeably which should...
Conservation vs. Preservation and Natural Regulation Abstract: Preservation and Conservation are two different theories regarding the management of natural resources. In this paper, I examine the differences between the two theories, and discuss the manner in which the concept of natural regulation is featured. Conservation versus Preservation In the era...
Basics: Conservation vs. Preservation This article covers Basics on Conservation vs. Preservation. Within discussions of environmental issues, there are two broad approaches one can take. On one hand there are those who argue that the goal should be the creation and preservation of wilderness free of human influence. This view...
There Is Nothing Purposeless In The ‘Palace’ Of The Universe There is nothing purposeless in the ‘palace’ of the universe. Its ecological system is so complex and the parts comprising it are so interrelated to one another that the lack or removal of one of them can result in the...
