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Plant And Animal Nitrous Oxide
1,631 wordsThe destruction of the rainforests is one of the most crucial environmental issues of our time. It is also one of the most misunderstood and neglected. There has been so much propaganda and publicity attached to this crisis that Save the Rainforests is becoming almost as clich as Save the Whales. Why dont we take this problem more seriously? Is it because we, as Americans, simply dont understand the devastating, long-terms consequences that continued deforestation of the rainforests would have? ...
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Amount Of Carbon Dioxide
689 wordsThe consequences of global warming have by now come to the attention of the majority of the population of the United States of America. The gradual warming of the earths atmosphere is due to an increased amount of carbon dioxide released into it. The burning of fossil fuels, oil, coal, and natural gas are the main activities that release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Americans add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every time they drive their car, use a chainsaw, or use electricity produced ...
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Funk And Wagnalls Carbon Dioxide
941 wordsCarbon dioxide lasers are one of the most powerful lasers ever constructed. The word LASER stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Lasers are devices that amplify light and produce light beams, ranging from infrared to ultraviolet. A light beam is consistent when its waves or photons, increase while mixing together. Laser light can be extremely intense, highly directional and very pure in color. Gas lasers such as the carbon dioxide laser is made active by ultraviolet...
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Oil And Gas Low Grade
664 wordsA researcher in the United Kingdom may have come up with an answer to an old problem: what to do with the millions of tires that are discarded annually. Old tires are a huge problem they " re dumped, they " re buried, they " re piled into mile-high mountains. If you stacked all the stockpiled and land filled waste tires in the United States on top of each other, they would reach the moon. Lay them end to end and they would encircle the globe more than 140 times. It's estimated that more than 2 m...
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Problem Of Global Warming
1,385 wordsHow can the nations of the world work together multilaterally to successfully address the problem of global warming? The numbers are striking. No region of the world will be unaffected if Global Warming continues to increasingly grow. Yet day after day people take actions that can change the earth and its climate in significant ways. Many people just stand motionless as the wave of climate change becomes more apparent. The IPCC predicts that during the next century, the average rate of warming w...
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Intellectual Property Rights X Rays
839 wordsPhysics Current Event Article Traditionally, for about 40 years now, cancer therapy has been using protons to treat tumors. This treatment has been in use since 1946, after Robert Wilson, a Berkeley physicist offered it as an option to less effective X-rays method. However, protons, as well as X-rays cause damage to DNA because they use radiation. According to Michael Holzscheiter, a spokesman for Geneva Cern's particle accelerator laboratory, there a new, revolutionary safer method for treating...
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Green House Effect Carbon Dioxide
1,108 wordsGLOBAL WARMING Dear grandpa, Do you aware that our grand children and great children may be the victim of global warming during the next century? In 1986, the Swedish chemist state Arrhenius first revealed the theory that carbon emissions from the burning of coal and other fossil fuels could generate a green house effect by trapping solar heat in the atmosphere leading to global warming. Electro magnetic energy emanating from the Sun is absorbed by the Earth, which radiates some of this energy o...
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Pollution And Environmental Protection 1
1,636 wordsPollution and Environmental Protection 1 1998 was the hottest in one thousand years, and the nine hottest years on record have all been in the past two decades. Humankind's actions on a global scale have changed not just the landscape of the Earth, but the world's climate too. Increasingly sophisticated measurements of the world's climate and weather systems have provided a wealth of evidence that the Earth has been getting steadily warmer. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, atmos...
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Polar Ice Caps Carbon Dioxide
2,528 wordsColony on Mars The human race has always explored the unknown. At the dawn of the humanity new lands were the object of exploration. People stimulated by their curiosity and care for the future generations left their overcrowded or exhausted lands and went to unknown virgin territories in search of fertile soil, economic and political independence and secure life for their children. The technological progress of the twentieth century has changed life of the mankind to such an extent, that in ear...
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Straightline Max Cam Quot As Mathews Bow
1,446 wordsThe Early Contributors Fred Bear was probably the greatest known bow hunter ever. He pioneered the sport, and founded target shooting in Michigan and the rest of the United States. Art Young taught Bear to make bows, arrows and handmade Irish linen bow strings. During the Great Depression Bear and Charles Piper saved $ 600 and started Bear Products Company. They sold silk-screen banners and flyers for Chrysler, but on the side he sold handmade bows to the growing number of archers and bow hunter...
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Miles Per Gallon Four Wheel Drive
3,060 wordsConcept Cars: Automobiles for the Future No one knows where automobiles are going but concept cars provide us with a small window to look into their future. Different automakers use concept cars in various ways and they all devote a lot of time and money toward developing their cars of the future. The first thing an automaker does is decide what kind of market (what age group, what style of driving) it should target to gain the most customers. For instance, Ford builds mainly vehicles which targ...
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Carbon Dioxide Air Quality
484 wordsDanger In The Air At North Intermmediate Danger In The Air At North Intermmediate School In Wilmington? Danger in the Air At North Intermmediate School in Wilmington? Is there danger in the air at the North Intermediate School in Wilmington? Apparently carbon dioxide levels have been found to be above acceptable levels in some class rooms. According to a report dated Dec. 9, 1996, by ATC Associations, an independent consulting firm hired by the Town of Wilmington to conduct Indoor Air Quality an...
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Boulder Westview Carbon Dioxide
1,430 wordsPSC 391 May Deforestation Deforestation? s Impact PSC 391 May 1, 2000 Deforestation is the permanent destruction of indigenous forests and woodlands. (WWF) Currently, forests cover approximately one fifth of the world? s land. Forests provide us with many products we use in our everyday lives. They also provide for us in other ways such from helping stop soil erosion to providing us with medical drugs, dyes and fabrics... Humanity depends on the survival of a healthy ecosystem and deforestation ...
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Million Years Ago Millions Of Years
923 wordsReptiles Enjoyed Warm Arctic (Global Warming) An article written by ABC News writer Kenneth Chang discusses the change in climate of the arctic from ninety million years ago. Seven hundred miles from the North Pole, lies an island called Axel Heiberg, a barren land that scientists have dug up fossil bones of a cold-blooded reptile known as a champsosaur. How does this happen in an arctic, freezing land? How does a reptile that needs the warmth of the sun to survive, live in a frigid climate? Wel...
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Carbon Dioxide
648 wordsGlobal Warming I have chosen to speak about Global warming because it is a major scientific issue in the media. Problems facing the environment today are vast and diverse. Destruction of the worlds rain forests, the depletion of the ozone layer, air pollution, water pollution, chemical pollution and global warming are just some of the problems that will reach dangerous proportions in the coming decades. The three aspects of global warming I will discuss are: What is global warming? What are the ...
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Problem Of Global Warming
1,398 wordsHow can the nations of the world work together multilaterally to successfully address the problem of global warming The numbers are striking. No region of the world will be unaffected if Global Warming continues to increasingly grow. Yet day after day people take actions that can change the earth and its climate in significant ways. Many people just stand motionless as the wave of climate change becomes more apparent. The IPCC predicts that during the next century, the average rate of warming wi...
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Green House Effect Seek Medical
1,602 wordsThis research report will take an in depth look at the use of hardwoods, and softwoods in the manufacture of outdoor furniture. This brief target audience is technology studies students, teachers, and will specifically investigate safety aspects, structure types and availability, adhesive properties, environment issues, and durability. The hardwoods considered in this report include Jarrah, Spotted Gum, and Tasmanian Oak. The softwoods considered are Radiata, Calantis and Hoop Pine. HARDWOOD Har...
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Time It Takes Surface Of Mars
2,185 wordsMars is the fourth planet from the sun and orbits the sun at a distance of about 141 million mi. Mars is named for the Roman god of war because it appears fiery red in the earth? s night sky. Mars is a small planet that has about half the diameter of Earth and about one-tenth Earth? s mass. The force of gravity on the surface of Mars is about one-third of that on Earth. Mars has twice the diameter and twice the surface gravity of Earth? s moon. The surface area of Mars is almost exactly the same...
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Nitrogen Oxides Sulfur Dioxide
1,524 wordsWith the great Pollution Introduction With the great concern surrounding the destruction of the earths atmosphere due to air pollution, the immediate and direct harm caused to the human body is often over shadowed. While many are aware that our careless use of hazardous chemicals and fossil fuels may leave the planet uninhabitable in the future, most over look the fact that they are also cause real damage to our bodies at this moment. Such pollutants cause damage to our respiratory system, leadi...
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Reputation Light Bulb
1,471 wordsThomas Alva Edison is considered one of the greatest inventors in history. He was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847 and died in 1931. During his life he patented 1, 093 inventions. Many of these inventions are in use today and changed the world forever. Some of his inventions include telegraphy, phonography, electric lighting and photography. His most famous inventions were the phonograph and the incandescent light bulb. Edison did some of his greatest work at Menlo Park. While experiment...
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