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So this is my book...: Asia’s Environment

� Table of Contents Introduction: Asia The Key Points	3 Chapter 1: Pollution Problem and Alternative Resources	4 Alternative Resources	4 The Problem Within Families	4 Chapter 2: Endangered and Deplenishing Species	5 The One Horned Rhinos	5 The Giant Pandas	6 The Asian Black Bears	6 Chapter 3: The Underwater Of Things	7 Undersea Minerals	7 Caspian Sea Pollution	7 Aral Sea Shrinking	8 Chapter 4: Nuclear Energy and Disasters	9 The Fukushima Accident	9 The Energy The Reactors Produce	9 Conclusion	10 Bibliography	11 Text Sources	11 Image Sources	12

� Introduction: Asia The Key Points Asia has an environment that isn’t very healthy. It has smoggy cities, and that is affecting families. There are Rhinos that are being poached, Giant Pandas and Asian Black Bears that are having trouble with their environment because of deforestation where roads, cities and more are being built in there place. The pollution in water bodies has grown in the past many years and it has destroyed the environment greatly. Yet undersea minerals could help with our everyday lives. The fukushima accident changed the environment greatly and nuclear power has grown in the past years too.� Chapter 1: Pollution Problem and Alternative Resources The U.S. and China would both like to reduce pollution. Barack Obama said that he could set a goal to reduce pollution one quarter by the year 2025. Newsela says Xi Jinping said he could use alternative resources to reduce pollution by 2030. China is the world's greatest greenhouse gas producer, so this could greatly improve the environment there. Some governments do not agree to the “Pollution Plan” though. They say “it would raise the electricity bill for people greatly.” Alternative Resources Some of the alternative resources can be from Solar to Nuclear power and even Wind power. Some ways that China could use these features is applying them to their new Mega Cities while they are still being built. But while they are thinking of these alternative resources there are other, greater problems for pollution. The Problem Within Families In Beijing, the city schools are being over loaded with smog. They have no purifiers and the parents are getting enraged with the toxic chemicals destroying the health of their children. Sara Zhang and other parents wanted to put air purifiers in the schools but some officials said it would be impossible. One parent even moved to Hainan because the air there is the cleanest in the country. The whole thing started as she found out that there were no air purifiers in her daughter's school. So she left for the island of Hainan so her family could be safe from the toxic chemicals.

� Chapter 2: Endangered and Deplenishing Species There are many different endangered or deplenishing species out in the world. Some of their environments aren’t payed much attention to, like the habitats or the food within. People just go in and do what they want. Pandas are a great example of this problem. On the other hand there are parks set up to protect some animals, like the One Horned Rhino, there is a park in India to protect them. Even though it is trespassing to go into the park the poachers go in just for the horn. The Asian Black Bear is a species just like the Panda. Wikipedia Describes this, saying “27 forestry enterprises were built in these areas between 1950 and 1985 (excluding the lumbering units belonging to the country). By the early 1990’s, the black bear distribution area was reduced to only one-fifth of the area that existed before the 1940’s.” This is important because it raises awareness for the species and their environment. The One Horned Rhinos The One Horned Rhinos have a depressing story ahead of them, unless something is done. They have a park for their safety but poachers still want their horns. One day the park rangers found a dying rhino left by the poachers. The poachers wanted to get away before sunrise so they left it there to die, while the rangers tried saving it they weren’t fast enough. So the Rhinos have been getting smaller and smaller in Population and won’t stop until something is done. The Giant Pandas Giant Pandas have been getting separated into smaller groups and they are needing back on the endangered list. For many years China has been growing not only in population but also in city expansion. They cut down Bamboo forests just to put roads and housing, causing the pandas not to have a large food source. But the construction not only got rid of there food it separated the pandas. “Giant Pandas now live in 33 isolated groups across China.” If they get separated more, than they might always be on the endangered list. If they get into even smaller groups then they might go extinct. The Asian Black Bears Wikipedia writes “Black Bears typically inhabit Deciduous Forests, Deserts, Mixed Forests, and thornbrush forests.” this interesting statistic shows and helps us understand where the Black Bears live. Black Bears environments are shrinking because of deforestation and human population increase. Russia has been growing in the deforestation industry and that has put more of a problem. The poaching of these bears is the main problem and nobody has put a stop to it. There are some laws put in place but people are still hunting illegally.�

Chapter 3: The Underwater Of Things Undersea minerals could make a big difference to our everyday lives. We have used up certain minerals on land, but they are still under the oceans and seas. We could use them for so many different things in our lives! But don’t forget the pollution like in the Caspian Sea. Also, did you know that the Aral Sea has shrunk 75% of it’s original size? The reason is, it was being used in the 1960’s by the Soviet Union to water their cotton crops. Undersea Minerals We use cellphones everyday, for work, for social life, for almost everything. We are using up all the minerals on land and we need more of them. We would use those minerals to make touch screen phones, or even just touchscreen anything. Scientists say that there are tons and tons of the same minerals down under with the fishes. To go down we would need to do some study on everything, we need to consider the ocean life, or if we don’t we would make another animal on the endangered list. The minerals would be to far undersea for us so we would build robots to go under and mine the minerals for us instead. Caspian Sea Pollution The Caspian Sea is the largest inland body of water. That can be snappy but also devastating. There are many different rivers that go into it, along with them they bring plenty of trash. Though trash from rivers isn’t the only thing polluting the sea, there are cities on the coast and the factories there produce oil. Sometimes that oil will spill into the sea and pollutes the sea ruining the environment, the sewage pipes from the cities let a lot of untreated waste head into the sea. Also to add onto the damage, plenty of boats that go around drop off trash. Aral Sea Shrinking The Aral sea used to be the fourth largest inland body of water, that was until the 1960’s when cotton was a cash crop-a money making material that could be sold to other countries. The Soviet Union was using the water in the Aral Sea to water their cotton and it being used all that time shrunk it, But it wasn’t just shrunk right then and there. It took years of using the water to look like a normal lake.

� Chapter 4: Nuclear Energy and Disasters Nuclear Meltdowns can be a big change in the environment. Like the Fukushima accident that caused a lot of damage to the environment around it. Although there is bad twists to nuclear reactors they produce a lot of energy for some countries. The Fukushima Accident The Fukushima accident happened on March 11, 2011. After the earthquake which caused the reactors to heat up, then the tsunami hit and wiped out the reactors cooling water. Then the reactors started melting, there were fires and during the fire plenty of polluting chemicals were released into the air. Within days of the accident the surrounding cities evacuated the area. Scientists checked the surrounding areas for the damage that the pollution has done. The Energy The Reactors Produce Nuclear reactors give 41% of the energy in Japan. South Korea uses around the same amount but is also looking to sell newer models that they built. Many other countries use Nuclear Reactor but there aren’t many major ones in asia other than these.

� Conclusion

If we strive for a cleaner environment we can make our world clean. And if we keep environmental awareness a thing, then the world can be a cleaner place, better place. � Bibliography Text Sources American, Scientific. "Put Pandas Back on the Endangered List, Chinese Officials Say."Newsela | Put Pandas Back on the Endangered List, Chinese Officials Say. Newsela Staff, 14 Oct. 2016. Web. 27 Mar. 2017.

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