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Prince William Sound Exxon Valdez
874 wordsThe Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: 10 Years Later The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: 10 Years Later Four minutes after midnight on March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez hit Bligh Reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound. Eleven million gallons of North Slope oil spewed into one of the most bountiful marine ecosystems in the world, killing birds, marine mammals, fish, and devastating the ecosystem. (Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Could It Happen Again? , 2000, May 10) Exxon claims the Sound has recovered, but envi...
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Sustainability Stewardship Sound Sustainability Stewardship Sound Science Terms
373 wordsCh. 1 introduction: sustainability, stewardship, sound science A. The global environmental picture - population growth, degradation of soils, global atmospheric changes, loss of biodiversity B. Three unifying themes - sustainability, stewardship, sound science C. Brief history of environmentalism & modern environmental movement; some laws passed by EPA A. Climate - pp. 213 - 15 & pp. 501 - 4 & handouts of diagrams (doldrums, horse latitudes, ITCZ, gulf stream, NE + SE trade winds, Hadley cell) B...
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Amazon Rainforest Amazon River
1,669 wordsThe Amazon River is the second longest river in world. The headwaters begin high in the soaring Andes Mountains and stretches 6, 400 km across the South American continent to the Atlantic Ocean. It discharges between 34 to 121 million liters of water per second, and depositing an average of 3 million tons of sediments near its mouth. The outpouring of water and residue is so vast that the salt content and the color of the Atlantic Ocean are altered for a distance of about 320 km from the mouth o...
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People Who Live Nile River
415 wordsThe Comparing and Contrasting of Snails of the The Nile River is a river that winds through Africa into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile River is considered to be the river of life for both people and wildlife. People who live along the river have the highest rate of bladder cancer. The Schistosoma Haematobium or blood fluke, which is carried by a snail called the Bulinus Truncatus, infects many people who live along the river. There is a parasitic worm which burrows into blood vessels of the hum...
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Hydrothermal Vents Ocean Floor
1,069 wordsSome 7, 500 feet below the oceans surface lies a intriguing and bizarre world unlike any other. Large black volcanoes tower above the ocean floor spouting out poisonous black gas into freezing cold waters and blind crabs roam endlessly in pitch darkness. These intolerable conditions could only mean one thing, hydrothermal vents. These mystical giants of the deep have stumped some of the worlds greatest scientists who have only recently discovered that they may hold the potential key to some of t...
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Brown Lash Environmental Regulations Issues
1,063 wordsDo Environmental Regulations Violate Basic Economic Freedoms? This is the question posed and debated by the authors of each position taken. Which issue is more prevalent the progress of our financial economy through business ownership or the protection of our natural environment by the dictation of regulations in which Americans must abide by? Can both viewpoints exist symbiotically? Does government intervention, in an effort to preserve our ecosystem, negatively affect business owners? It would...
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20 Th Century Tropical Forests
1,791 words... been noticed that male orangutans tend to be less aggressive towards each other, when their social interaction occurs on permanent basis. Usually, this happens when males territories overlap. Female orangutans social role is reduced to raising offspring. Nevertheless, during the mating period, females become much more active. As a rule, males would not approach them, unless being welcomed by a specific mating gesticulation. Male orangutans express their excitement with breaking branches off ...
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Amount Of Carbon Costa Rica
1,265 wordsGreg Costa Bio 190 /Costa Rican Adventures 11 / 30 / 1999 Part I Banana: Bananas were most likely picked up by the European traders in Southeast Asia when in search for spices. Soon, as the discovery of the Tropics arrived, traders took bananas to Central America. Breadfruit: this fruit commonly grows among the southern Pacific islands, and it probably found its way to Costa Rica when the natives started to explore on boat. Chocolate: as far as I could find, chocolate is native to Central Americ...
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Forest Destruction
831 wordsIt is believed that the Queensland Government is spending too little on protecting its forest and too much on destroying it. Community groups are sweating to planting trees while government bulldozers are clearing them away (3) The rate of forest destruction to planting in Queensland is 10: 1. The ACF (Australian Conservation Foundation) Executive Director Don Henry says $ 76 million has been spent on fencing off and planting about 130 000 hectares while more than ten times that amount has been ...
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Global Climate Change
935 wordsthe worlds Global Warming As the worlds expanding population burns large quantities of fossil fuels and simultaneously cuts down large expanses of forests worldwide, the concentrations of CO 2 and other greenhouse gases are building up in the atmosphere. " The green house effect is the (imperfect) analogy used to explain the atmospheric phenomenon that keeps our planet warm enough to sustain life. " There is mounting evidence that this shift in Earths atmosphere will lead to global cha...
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Effects Of Global Warming Greenhouse Gases
917 wordsHumankind is conducting an ongoing experiment to see what will happen to our health and to the well being of the planet when changes in the earths climate are made. This experiment is called global warming. Global warming is allegedly changing the world, as we know it. The concern of global warming is the increasing temperature of the earths climate, which is expected to warm even further because of human activities that include the burning of fossil fuels to run cars and trucks, heat homes and ...
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Miles In Four Source Of Pollution Products
684 wordsPollution is the Pollution Pollution Pollution is the introduction of harmful substances or products into the environment. It is a major problem in America and as well as the world. Pollution not only damages the environment, but damages us also. It has cause many problems ranging from lung cancer to the greenhouse effect. It is all among us and but we continue to live in our own filth. What is the reason behind this flawed logic? In this paper I will examine the problems and solutions for this ...
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Dollars Per Kilo Ban On Elephant Ivory Hippos
672 wordsJason Wapiennik Mr. Trippeer, Biology January 6 th, 1997 The Hippopotamus: Endangered Species Report The ban on elephant ivory trading has slowed down the poaching of elephants, but now poachers are getting their ivory from another creature, the hippopotamus. For the poacher, the hippo is an easy target. They stay together for long hours in muddy water pools, as many as eighty-one can be found in a single square mile. This concentration is so big its only second to that of the elephant. Poachers...
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Clear Cut Wildlife Habitat
1,146 wordsHow Detrimental Clear-Cut Logging And Other Options How Detrimental Clear-Cut Logging And Other Options Have you ever awakened on a beautiful sunny morning in the Southwest planning on going for a hike in the Cascade Mountains, but when you arrive at your destination there are only stumps? This is the result of clear-cut logging. The negative aspects of logging, by far, outweigh the benefits. Clear-cut logging is the practice of harvesting all the trees in a specifically marked area. Another log...
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Life On Earth Newly Discovered
881 wordsUntil recently, scientists believed that the sole source of energy responsible for life on earth was the sun. In 1977, a group of scientists researching the theory of plate tectonics, traveled to the floor of the equatorial Pacific Ocean and discovered something that could possibly explain how life began on this planet. From the Galapagos Rifts thermal springs, scientists discovered densely populated communities of several species never before observed. Since that time the Federal Government has...
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Endangered Species Million Acres
1,220 wordsWith all the new and advanced technology that is accessible today, who has time to enjoy or care about the great outdoors? Unfortunately, much of the wilderness and the animals within it are gradually fading away. There are many animals that have already been extinct and many more will soon be put on the list of extinction. In the second issue of Target Earth, Tim Stevens found in 1975, the grizzly bear was listed as a threatened species, under the Endangered Species Act. Stevens also stated, To...
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Paleo Ecological Reconstruction Paleo Ecological Evidence Organisms
1,100 wordsOne of the principal objectives of geologists studying sedimentary rocks is the reconstruction of the environment in which the rocks were deposited. Correct reconstruction may result in the discovery of oilfields, deposits of salts, or base metals, and provide insight to our earths past. As evidence to ancient environments the geologist has the structures, textures, and composition of the grains that make up the sediments, and the fossils preserved in them. Organisms are far more sensitive to, a...
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Organic Matter Food Chain
417 wordsPhotosynthesis, Respiration And Energy Relationships Essay, Research Photosynthesis, Respiration And Energy Relationships State that light is the initial energy source for almost all communities State that the carbon dioxide fixed by photosynthesis is released by respiration State that the energy released during breakdown / respiration of complex compounds in an organism is used to do work or is lost as heat Define biomass The total mass of organic matter in organisms or ecosystems. Water is not...
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Miles In Four Source Of Pollution Trash
682 wordsPollution is the introduction of harmful substances and products into the environment. It is a major problem in Canada and as well as the world. Pollution not only damages the environment, but damages us also. It has caused lots of problems from lung cancer to the hole in the earth s atmosphere. It is affecting our lives but we still continue living. I think I can narrow it down to two basic pollution, air pollution, and water pollution. In this essay I will show you how they affect our lives an...
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Land Ethic Natural World
974 wordsObservations and Views Between Dillard and Leopold Aldo Leopold was born in 1887, died in 1948, in 1949 his book A Sand Country Almanac was published. He was a renowned scientist, scholar, teacher, philosopher, and gifted writer. His book is a collection of his nature writing, lyrical writings, praise for nature, and manifestos for people. Leopold undoubtedly believed in the preservation of wilderness, however it was not until the last two decades of his life that he developed his famed Land Eth...
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