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Effects Of Acid Rain Sulfur Dioxide
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"Acid Rain, " or more precisely acidic
precipitation, is the term used to describe
rainfall that has a pH level of less than 5. 6 --
a pH of 7 being neutral. This form of air
pollution is currently a subject of great
controversy because of the damage it does tot he
environment and property worldwide. For the last
ten years, this occurrence has brought destruction
to thousands of lakes and streams in the United
States, Canada, and parts of Europe. It also leads
to the deterioration of buildings a...
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Burning Of Fossil Greenhouse Gases
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Global warming is a steady increase in earths
average temperature which appears to be
acknowledged by many scientists and people at the
present as reality. Increasing human activities
are changing the Earth's temperature which
includes natural influences that have been there
over the past. By and large, this warming takes
place due to the use of green-house gases emitted
in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Some skeptics
believe and some studies seem to point out that
human production of greenhouse ...
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Fossil Fuels Solar Panels
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Should Permission be Given for a Wind Farm at
Gunson Height? Hills rolling across the
countryside, lush green fields for miles, dozens
of walk paths to appreciate the beautiful scenery,
used by families for picnics and days out, as well
as hikers wanting a view worth walking miles to.
Or a piece of rugged, unspectacular England that
is just like seven thousand other walks in the
country? Dozens of 30 M tall hideous steel
contraptions, cutting blades slicing through the
air and making the noise e...
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Coal And Oil Lot Of Money
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All energy sources have negative and positive
aspects. Coal and oil pollute the environment,
nuclear fission produces toxic waste, and solar
heaters are not efficient. When compared to other
energy sources, hydroelectricity has fewer
disadvantages and is being explored and widely
used today. Throughout the world an increasing
amount of people are turning towards hydroelectric
power as a new source of energy. Although the idea
of converting water to power might seem simple,
the process it must go...
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Photosynthesis Changing Carbon Dioxide And Water To Sugars
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6 H 2 O + 6 CO 2 gt; C 6 H 12 O 6 + 6 O 2 Six
molecules of water plus six molecules of carbon
dioxide produce one molecule of sugar plus six
molecules of oxygen Photosynthesis is the process
that green plants and certain other organisms use
to change carbon dioxide and water into glucose
(sugar) using the suns energy. Photosynthesis
provides the basic energy source for practically
all living organisms. A very important byproduct
of photosynthesis is oxygen, which we cant live
without. Photosynth...
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Effects Of Global Warming
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... weather is hot and more humid than usual.
Hotter temperatures and more rain in different
areas will cause more heat and humid weather. This
will allow mosquitoes to find new places to love
and spread the diseases. "Mosquito-borne diseases
are being reported for the first time at high
elevations in Asia, Central Africa, and Latin
America. An increase in winter temperatures, which
tend to limit the distribution of insect
populations, may be increasing mosquito survival
rates and contributing t...
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Burning Of Fossil Fuels Earths Atmosphere
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Climate Changes towards Global Warming For
centuries human race has had a very strong
detrimental influence upon natural environment.
One of the largest areas of environmental concern
is human-induced climate change. Through
technological advancements human beings have
accelerated earth on its course towards
destruction. Here we clearly see that current
state of development of the technology and the
dependence of industries on energy resources lead
our planet to some critical point where further...
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Alternative Energy Sources England And Wales
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Article Analysis The article I chose is Solar
Energy by Power Light by John Smith staff writer
of Inc. Magazine. The article is about alternative
energy sources and deregulation of the industry.
The focus of the article is put on a company
called Power Light Corporation in Berkeley,
California. This particular $ 10 million company
designs and manufacturers solar electric products.
Power Light Corp. is a very fast growing company
over past years and is expected to grow at an even
faster rate in y...
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Ground Level Ozone Environmental Protection Agency
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Eng 102 December 4, 2000 Pollution Since the
beginning of the 20 th century, environmentalists
have been warning the world about polluting the
earth and its consequences. While many countries
have seriously attempted to reduce their pollution
emission, others instead seem to be more concern
about economic growth and production output.
Therefore, pollution has been increasing since
then. However, pollution must be reduced,
otherwise life on earth will soon extinguish. Air
pollution is one of the ...
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Birth Control Pills 20 Th Century
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There are 5. 3 billion people currently living on
our planet and this number is expected to double
within the next 40 years. 1 Of the world? s 5. 3
billion people 4. 1 billion live in less developed
nations, which also have higher growth rates than
more developed countries. 2 Less developed nations
currently make up 77 % of the world? s population
and this number is expected to increase to 83 % by
2025. 3 This means more people, living poor. In
the time it has taken you to read this far, the
num...
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Polar Ice Caps Rise In Sea Level
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The Greenhouse Effect Issue Statement While some
people believe the earths climatic changes are due
to the fact that the universe is getting older,
others believe it is due to the greenhouse effect.
The greenhouse effect is a naturally occuring
phenomenon that is responsible for trapping heat
near the earths surface and keeping the planet
warm. It is called the greenhouse effect because
the way it works is similar to the way in which a
green house functions. In a greenhouse sunlight
passes throu...
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Fossil Fuels Generate Electricity
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HYDROELECTRIC POWER The idea of electricity
started around 500 B. C. as the Greek philosopher
Thales experimented with amber, a fossilized tree
sap, by rubbing it and observing that it starts to
attract certain types of materials, this is the
first documented study of static electricity. In
1646 the term electricity was coined by Walter
Charlton to describe the attraction of the
different materials. Throughout the 1700 s many
advancements in the study of electricity were made
to include the idea...
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Day And Night Fossil Fuels
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Period Hydroelectric Power Kevin Shah Period 3
Hydroelectric Power One of the earliest ways to
harness power is to use the powerful flow of
water. On September 30 th, 1882, in Appleton,
Wisconsin, the first ever dam was built. Since
then, over 2, 044 billion-kilowatt hours have been
produced each day, worldwide. This source of
energy is being used more and more days, because
it is so dependable. But, how does it actually
work and produce electricity? First of all, dams
are located in a position ...
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Hydrogen Atoms Fossil Fuels
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HYDROGEN THE POWER SURCE OF THE FUTURE Since the
beginning of the scientific revolution in the
early nineties the mankind looks for an energy
source that is clean and renewable; solution of
this problem would be probably the most common
thing in our life WATER. Water consists of two
chemical elements, hydrogen and oxygen. Each
molecule of water consists of two hydrogen (H 2)
atoms and one oxygen (O) atom. Chemical binding
between these three atoms is very stable and
strong. Therefore, the reacti...
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Three Mile Island Coal And Oil
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Entering the twenty-first century, six billion
people inhabit the earth. A number that is
expected to double in a hundred and twenty years,
yet only 4 % of that world population lives in the
Untied States. Even though the Untied States is
only 4 % of the population of the world, it still
uses 25 % of the world? s resources. This
statistic is most important with the argument of
food consumption, with so many countries starving,
but it also means that the United States uses 25 %
of the world? s en...
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Fossil Fuels Population Growth
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Two hundred Malthus MALTHUS Two hundred years ago,
Thomas Robert Malthus, a British economist, wrote
An Essay on the Principle of Population in which
he argued that the world population would increase
faster than the food supply, with disastrous
results for the general human welfare. A world
population of 250 million at the time of Christ
has now grown to 5. 7 billion in spite of wars,
plagues, famine, and epidemics. World food
production has been keeping pace with population
growth until recent...
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Hemp Seed Oil Drug Enforcement Agency
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Should Drugs Be Made Legal? For several decades
drugs have been one of the major problems of
society. There have been escalating costs spent on
the war against drugs and countless dollars spent
on rehabilitation, but the problem still exists.
Not only has the drug problem increased but drug
related problems are on the rise. Drug abuse is a
killer in our country. Some are born addicts
(crack babies), while others become users. The
result of drug abuse is thousands of addicts in
denial. The good n...
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Nitrogen Oxides Nitrogen Dioxide
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Gifted Photochemical Smog Photochemical Smog
Gifted Chemistry IB Alternative Assessment 1997
March 19 Historically, the term smog referred to a
mixture of smoke and fog, hence the name smog. The
industrial revolution has been the central cause
for the increase in pollutants in the atmosphere
over the last three centuries. Before 1950, the
majority of this pollution was created from the
burning of coal for energy generation, space
heating, cooking, and transportation. Under the
right conditions, ...
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Parts Per Million
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1. What are the Greenhouse Gases? Carbon dioxide
(CO 2) is responsible for more than half the human
contribution to the greenhouse effect, and
concentrations have climbed steadily from around
280 parts per million at the dawn of the
industrial revolution meaning 0. 028 percent of
the air s volume is taken up by the gas to around
355 ppm today. As people burn oil, coal and
natural gas, they release carbon that ancient
plants in past geological ages absorbed and
stored. 6 As cement workers process...
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Greenhouse Gasses Carbon Dioxide
330 words
Carbon dioxide has been rising in the atmosphere
throughout time. Recently though, the levels of
carbon dioxide have been increasing at a more
alarming rate. The cause of this is a direct
result of man? s burning of fossil fuels. We know
that every action we make, as humans, will have
some effect on the environment around us and those
effects can be either good or bad. The rising
levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may
potentially inflict some negative effects on our
environment. The term...
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