I will persuade you from 3 aspects, the influence on health and environment respectively, and the way to stop soda. Firstly, soda is extremely toxic and taking a great toll on our health. Obesity is the most obvious effect. Because soda contains too much sugar, for instance, there are 40.5 grams of sugar in a can of Coke, which is the equivalent of 10 teaspoons of sugar. Imagine eating 10 large, full spoonfuls of sugar; this will give you an idea of how much sugar you ingest with each can of soda.
Hayes argued, “the impacts of atrazine on amphibians and on wildlife in general are potentially devastating” (Hayes et al. 4). Atrazine causes disease and deformities and is a threat to both humans and wildlife. Atrazine is the most common pesticide contaminant of ground and surface water that can spread a half million pounds of atrazine more than 1,000 km from the point of application via rainfall (Hayes et al. 1).
Ricinus communis (ricin) is one of the most deadly toxins that has been discovered. It is a protein toxin extracted from the castor bean plant and a single molecule can kill an entire cell. The mechanism of action is by destroying the ribosome within a cell, which prevents protein synthesis. The toxin works as a slow poison, eventually causing a total body failure, as necessary proteins are not replaced. This common toxin can be found in gardens and wild areas around the world and is wildly grown for the oil it produces.
The machines are unmarked and contain syringes for a small but deadly price of $2, and they are also supposed to be situated at a height that makes it inaccessible for smaller people, but you can’t put much past people these days, with a rising amount of younger individuals experimenting with drugs and being exposed to dangerous substances. Examples of why the distributions of needle vending machines are a bad idea include a most likely increase in drug use and an increasing number of dangerous syringes discarded in the area. With needle vending machines shortly arriving in Melbourne’s inner suburbs the area’s use of heroin will be dramatically and dangerously increased. Heroin is an opioid drug that is synthesized from morphine and can be injected, inhaled by snorting or sniffing, or smoked. All three processes transfer the drug to the brain very quickly, which contributes to the health risks and its high risk for addiction.
The production of noxious and/or toxic alkaloids from the skin glands of poison frogs has resulted in distinct ecological relationships that may prove to be an ideal example for certain complex biological interactions around the world. The distribution of poison frogs is limited to mainly the tropical habitats of Central and South America. There are over 221 species of poison frogs in the Family Dendrobatidae, in which the three genera Epipedobates, Phylobates, and Dendrobates contain the most toxic and visually brilliant species. The vertical niche range of the poison frogs occurs between ground level to about 10 feet high on trees (Darst et al. 2004).
Since they were big targets and sported the largest tusks, Savannah elephants took the worst hit. But as soon as these elephants began to vanish, hunters moved into the forests in search of the elephants' smaller kin, the forest elephant. “In 1977, 1.3 million elephants lived in Africa; by 1997, only 600,000 remained.” (PBS) Though poaching has long been a problem in central Africa, the introduction of well-funded poaching organizations with advanced weaponry to the continent has caused the poaching problem to escalate. Poachers from these organizations are heavily armed and dangerous to both animals and humans. Common materials poached from animals include hides, meat, furs, horns and tusks, all of which receive a high price in markets throughout the world.
The females are the most aggressive, showing in their size and behaviour around other spiders and species, as they are very territorial creatures. One of the main reason they are well known and fear is because of their bite. Known to be the most toxic as it is made up of “neurotoxins polypeptides that affect the nervous system” it is called “Laxcotoxin” The bite itself will feel like a pin prick, however within the first couple of hours you will
Professor Elizabeth Blair 10/08/2011 Killer at Large Review Living Fat, Dying Young America is known as one of the fattest nations in the world. Not exactly something to be proud of in my opinion. This problem is growing and is in need of action to get people back to a healthier state of being. From the movie Killer at Large Dr. Richard Carmona, former Surgeon General of the United States, states that “Obesity is the terror within. It is destroying us, destroying our society from within.
Exotic Invasion Britton D. Hudson Sierra Nevada College Exotic species are those that are outside of their natural range and many of the exotic species around the world are becoming invasive, spreading and increasing in abundance and this is considered to be the most threatening factor affecting the biota of the U.S. national park systems (Primack, 235). Many species become invasive by unintentional transportation, they can be carried within the cargo of planes and trains, just as the brown tree snake was introduced to many pacific islands and now is devastating native, endemic bird species, species may also be transported on the undercarriage and inside of automobiles and within boat ballast water like the invasive quagga muscle or the easily spread spores of cheat grass that are invasive in many areas and are often times dispersed by humans and animals. To reduce and prevent introductions of exotic and invasive species preventative and regulatory measures are necessary, or else they will potentially dominate ecosystems and eliminate native species (Primack, 243). Often times the best restorative measure requires physical removal of an invasive species, like the__________________ that has been removed from _______________ and successfully so, as seen in improved ___________________. Exotic and invasive species pose ecological threats such as direct predation, parasitism and disease, as well as indirect implications including, habitat modification, abiotic alterations and trophic cascades.
The orang-utan (Pongo Pygmaeus) is the world’s largest tree-climbing mammal and the smartest creature on Earth besides the human being. The word orang-utan literally means ‘person of the forest’ and is man’s closest and enigmatic cousins in the animal kingdom sharing 96.4% of our DNA. Female orang-utans produce an offspring only once every 8 or 9 years which makes them the slowest reproducing animal in the world, this makes them prone to extinction. To make matters worse they are dying in greater numbers than they are babies born. The main factor behind this tragedy is that they are native only to the tropical rainforests in the islands of Borneo (shared between the countries of Indonesia and Malaysia) and Sumatra (in Indonesia), these rainforests are rapidly disappearing due to logging and the expansion of huge palm-oil plantations that are replacing the rainforests at a very fast pace.