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    Cultural Services: Top 10 Environmental Issues Around The Globe

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    This document discusses 10 major environmental issues globally and in the Philippines, including climate change, loss of biodiversity, pollution, and overpopulation. It also describes ecosystem services like support of nutrient cycles, provision of resources, and regulation of climate; and human activities that impact ecosystems such as land use change, invasive species, resource exploitation, and pollution. The document stresses the importance of raising awareness about environmental problems in order to foster stewardship of the earth and encourage conservation.

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    This document discusses 10 major environmental issues globally and in the Philippines, including climate change, loss of biodiversity, pollution, and overpopulation. It also describes ecosystem services like support of nutrient cycles, provision of resources, and regulation of climate; and human activities that impact ecosystems such as land use change, invasive species, resource exploitation, and pollution. The document stresses the importance of raising awareness about environmental problems in order to foster stewardship of the earth and encourage conservation.

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    This document discusses 10 major environmental issues globally and in the Philippines, including climate change, loss of biodiversity, pollution, and overpopulation. It also describes ecosystem services like support of nutrient cycles, provision of resources, and regulation of climate; and human activities that impact ecosystems such as land use change, invasive species, resource exploitation, and pollution. The document stresses the importance of raising awareness about environmental problems in order to foster stewardship of the earth and encourage conservation.

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    6: ECOSYSTEM SERVICES carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and

    Top 10 Environmental Issues around the storage in plants)


    globe: Cultural services
    1. Population Include nonmaterial benefits such
    2. Climate Change as spiritual enrichment, cultural
    3. Loss of Biodiversity heritage, recreation, tourism, and
    aesthetic experience that nature
    4. The Phosphorus and Nitrogen Cycles provides for human.
    5. Water HUMAN ACTIVITIES
    6. Ocean Acidification Land use changes
    7. Pollution Involve the conversion of natural
    8. Ozone Layer Depletion ecosystem to urban, industrial, or agricultural
    areas.
    9. Over Fishing
    Example: Mangrove areas are
    10. Deforestation reclaimed, leveled, and or converted into
    In the Philippines urban areas. Mangrove are more efficient in
    1. Pollution sequestering carbon from the atmosphere and
    2. Global warming due to emission of also serve as protective barrier against storm
    greenhouse gases surges and tsunamis.
    Introduction of invasive species
    3. Overpopulation Pose a threat to ecosystem which
    4. Natural resources depletion may drive native species resulting into
    5. Waste disposal endangerment or extinction.
    ENVIRONMENT - refers to everything that Resource exploitation
    surrounds a living organism, which includes Burning of fossil fuel to generate electricity
    physical factors (air, water, soil) and biological increases the amount of carbon dioxide and
    factor (living organisms, flora and fauna). other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
    ECOSYSTEM - a community of organisms and is attributed to global warming.
    Extensive and poorly managed agricultural
    interacting each other and with abiotic or
    activities employed to provide food affect soil
    non-living components of the environment. quality and create dead zones in bodies of
    ENERGY - exchanged and cycling of water due to eutrophication caused by
    important nutrients is facilitated. discharge nitrogen and phosphorus from
    ECOSYSTEM SERVICES - refer to the fertilizers.
    direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems Pollution
    to human survival and quality of life.
    Support services Why raise awareness about environmental
    include the cycling of vital nutrients issues?
    such as nitrogen and phosphorus (minerals Earth is our Common Home
    that are essentially for survival and can only be
    derived in their usable forms. ) Fosters a sense of connection to the
    It also include the decomposition of natural world
    organic matter, cycling of water, and
    production of primary materials. Promotes sustainable development
    Provisioning services
    Provide the basic needs for survival Encourages conservation of
    (air, water, shelter, food, and energy) irreplaceable natural resources and vulnerable
    It includes the photosynthesis in plant and animal species
    plants, the water cycle, the food web, and the
    presence of different natural ecosystems such Helps people understand the
    as forests, rivers, and seas, provide these consequences of h
    basic necessities.
    Regulating services
    Benefits obtain by regulating the climate,
    hazards, and diseases through process
    such as carbon sequestration (removal of

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