Coral reefs are important ocean ecosystems. The provide a number of important functions, including acting as nurseries for a great number of ocean species. However, the health and viability of the world's coral reefs has become an issue of increasing concern among world scientists. It is known that when ocean...

Cowspiracy is an expository documentary released in 2014 that raises an environmental dimension of the food consumption. It investigates the leading cause of environmental degradation in our society today, animal agriculture through the lens of the food consumption. In addition to that, the documentary reviews the global warming, water use,...

Introduction Animal behaviour has long been the subject of scientific inquiry. Studying the way animals evolve their behaviour can inform researchers regarding the process of natural selection and can lead to a deeper understanding of organic biology in general. Two such behaviours explored in this paper are territorial and play...

There is some debate about whether the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) is native to Lake Ontario, but researchers agree that the creation of the Welland Canal in the early 1800’s allowed the population dispersion of the lamprey to the rest of the Great Lakes, with devastating effects on the ecosystem,...

In this paper, I will argue that Peter Singer’s hypothetically proposed analogy between animal species and pieces of art works to a limited extent. However, the extent to which it works does not frustrate Singer’s larger purpose, which is to argue that the well-being of non-human animals ought to figure...