Methane In The Amazon

From a mere trickle in the highlands of Peru, the Amazon swells mightily on it’s 4000 mile

The carbon cycle in The Amazon Rainforest consists mainly in the plants. The plants will absorb the carbon dioxide and release oxygen into the atmosphere. The carbon that is absorbs with the plants mainly forms the organic body of the plant. For every one atom of carbon dioxide a plant absorbs, it will release two atoms of oxygen into the atmosphere. The animals also absorb the carbon dioxide into their system by eating the plants as a source of food. When either the plant or animal dies, the carbon dioxide is released back into the atmosphere.

Hydrocarbons: Hydrocarbons are a form of organic compounds consisting exclusively of hydrogen molecules and carbon molecules. Classes of this composite entail: arenes, alkynes, alkenes, and alkanes. Hydrocarbons are chief workings of natural gas, oils, and pesticides, which can lead to some negative effects on the environment.

     Napoleon Chagnon has spent about 60 months since 1964 studying the ‘foot people’ of the Amazon Basin known as the Yanomamo. In his ethnography, Yanomamo, he describes all of the events of his stay in the Venezuelan jungle. He describes the “hideous” appearance of the Yanomamo men when first meeting them, and their never-ending demands for Chagnon’s foreign goods, including his food. There are many issues that arise when considering Chagnon’s Yanomamo study. The withholding of genealogical information by the tribesmen, and how Chagnon was able to obtain his information is an interesting and significant aspect of this study. Why did Chagnon feel that this genealogical information was

Statement of Credibility: Through vast studying of oceanic research articles, I have found that the media overwhelms the general public with dramatic myth stories in such a way that the truth rarely makes it to readers. Scientist have now proven a methane gas hypothesis has been a major contributor to ships and planes losing their density needs.

“The claim that the rain forests are being destroyed "at a rate of 20 football fields a minute" is false . In addition, claims that the Amazon serves as the "lungs of the earth" and that over "450 species" are

In today’s society, more and more threats to the welfare of our earth and atmosphere are being discovered. Some world leaders dismiss these concerns, 1) because they choose to remain ignorant of the condition of the planet’s environment, 2) because it would cost them “too much money” to fix the problem, 3) because it is easier not to deal with the problem, or 4) they simply do not care. We cannot simply ignore these problems, for any of these reasons, because the longer we wait to address them, the more dire the situation becomes. The scientists who study these threats to our environment want to solve this issue. That’s what scientists do; they form a hypothesis and test every variable until they find a solution. Mario Molina studied the effects of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) on the ozone, finding that they aided the depletion of the ozone in earth’s upper atmosphere, just another threat to the earth’s environment.

“About 180 oil and gas blocks now cover ~688,000 km2 of the western Amazon” (Finer, M., Jenkins, C., Pimm, S., Keane, B., Ross, C., 2013). Ecuador is comprised of thousands of

Immense abundance of methane(CH4) from the ocean floor can affect climate globally. The atmospheric methane concentration has gone up by about 150% since 1750. Wide-ranging methane seeps that were identified along the Atlantic Margin contributes to an excellent experiment for this global climate and methane relation. With the operation of multibeam water-column backscatter info, it becomes possible to analyze 94,000 km^2 of the ocean floor to classify hundreds of gas plumes up to 1,700m depth on the Atlantic passive margin. Skarke et al, suggests that tens of thousands of seeps can be identified.

Tectonic plates, giant masses of land that are moving constantly, create faults, where tectonic plates meet. Scientists have discovered something new and extraordinary at these faults. They found that the chemical compound , methane, a greenhouse gas, is being released through these faults called brittle faults. Methane is moving to less shallow parts of the earth's crust or into the oceans themselves. Although methane is known to be bad for the environment, scientists found out that they can precisely date fault lines by examining the methane in the area. A special study called The Nature Communications in Norway has precisely dated a fault line to 200 million years ago. By using this method of dating, scientists could end up precisely dating

According to the IPCC, Latin America’s contribution of greenhouse gases globally is at a low of 4%. In this area, deforestation is quite common and the release of carbon to the atmosphere from it has the potential to alter the global carbon balance. Latin American forest represent 27% of the global forest coverage (The regional impacts of climate change 1). If

There are a number of negative effects of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon such as climate change, extinction of endemic species of rich biodiversity and destruction of home of indigenous people. First of all, climate may vary and deteriorate because of deforestation. Especially green house gas emission could have significant impacts on earth residents. Because it is calculated that Amazon rainforest contains about 10% of all carbon in the world, which total release will be disastrous. The deforestation of Amazon is responsible for the most greenhouse gas emissions which are the results of logging and burning of Amazon could have serious impacts to the whole world, including global warming (Butler, 2007). For instance, increase of 0.8 C from 1880 was indicated and especially two last decades of 20th century were hottest ones. Moreover, effects of it can be considerably felt in Alaska, Eastern Russia and Canada, where the double increase of temperature compared with total average was indicated (National Geographic News 2007). Another damage that deforestation could make is runoff of Amazon River. It is estimated that if “widespread deforestation” arise, there will be 20% increase in runoff, which could be

Joseph Fournier came up with the idea of the greenhouse effect in 1824. In the late 1950’s Charles Keeling created a tool in Mauna Loa Hawaii to measure the amount of carbon dioxide being trapped in the atmosphere due to the greenhouse effect. This tool has discovered a steady increase in the carbon dioxide levels over the last fifty years in what has become known as the “Keeling Curve”. Keeling discovered that about twenty five percent of the carbon dioxide molecules in our atmosphere are man made. These carbon dioxide molecules being trapped in the atmosphere are raising earth's temperature at a dangerous rate. Many in the science

The concept of global warming has become one of the most widely debated and controversial topics of our time. Scientists learned long ago that the earth’s climate has powerfully shaped the history of humanity. However, it is only in the past few decades that research has revealed that humans have a significant influence on the climate as well. A growing body of scientific evidence indicates that since 1950, the world’s climate has been warming, primarily as a result of emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and the destruction of tropical forests. More importantly, an article titled "Global Warming" published in the New York Times shows that methane, a gas that is emitted from landfills, livestock and oil gas facilities,

Humans have always cleared the forest for our own interests, but in the past, the process was slow and only limited regions were deforested, generally for subsistence agriculture. However, today, humanity is far more efficient at clearing the forest with our advanced technology and machinery and our almost maniacal drive to earn profits in the near term. Ranching Cattle ranches are created in the rainforest for many fast food companies.