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Science
Most of the world today regards the global warming as both real and dangerous.
Many aspects, however, have already been discounted by the scientific community. Fears
of massive sea level increase, accompanied by many early discussion about global
warming. Scientist af...
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Drilling In The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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Date: 09/21/15 20:12 in : Environmental_Science
Drilling In The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is going to have a great affect not just on Alaska, but on the rest of the country as well. Drilling has been going on in Alaska for y...
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LA Beach Cleanup
For introductory reference, Memo #1 regarding this issue is dated 2/14/02.
The tides have changed in southern California and the Environmental Protection Agency has successfully assigned specific pollution limits to most of the waterways mentioned in Memo #1. Now that ...
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Argumentive Essay
When you take a bite out of that big, red, juicy, apple do you ever think that you might be ingesting a little more than you bargained for? Do you think of all the chemicals that might have been sprayed, dropped, or even added to the fertilizer that is used to aid in t...
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Environmental Health: Acid Rain
When thought of acid rain, some people may think of green, burning acid falling from the sky, destroying everything in sight. This may be a bit ridiculous and hard to believe, but as absurd as it sound, it is not far from the truth. Acid deposition has long...
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Wombats
The Common Wombat (Vombatus Ursinus) a native Australian Marsupial, is a stout, sturdy animal with a large blunt head. It has small ears and a very short tail. It has short, stubby but very powerful legs with broad claws which it uses for digging. Wombats grow to about 1.3 meters ...
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Soil Erosion
Soil quality is one of the most basic and perhaps least understood indicators of land health. Soil supports plant growth and represents the living reservoir that buffers the flows of water, nutrients, and energy through an ecosystem. The ongoing degradation of the earths soi...
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To Drill Or Not Drill
The scarcity of oil becomes a more and more serious issue in our country. The oil price rises from below $10 a barrel in 1998 to $26 per barrel in 2001. Our government is planning to drill oil from Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ANWR in Alaska to solve the oil c...
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571 Million Americans
I am writing this letter to you in response to your article titled 571 Million Americans. If the United States ever has 571 million residents, it will be one of the worst places to live in the world. America will not be better off; it will suffer greatly along wi...
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Trash
On October 12, 1999, our population grew to six billion people. Along with this
exorbitant number of people, come their garbage. Each person producing four pounds a
day, or three fourths of a ton each year (Miller,1999). The United States is responsible
for creating 33% of...
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Snowy Mountains
Environmental Problems on the Snowy Mountains
The Snowy Mountains has a delicate ecosystem and unfortunately there are several environmental problems. These environmental issues are erosion, salinity and siltation. These issues effect the water quality and applies pressur...
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Water Quality And Sanitation
Surface water is defined as run-off from rain and snow (precipitation) that flows on the earths surface in rivers and streams, and collects in lakes and reservoirs. Ground water collects in underground aquifers and springs after soaking into the ground and pe...
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Financing Public Lands
The purpose of this article is to analyze the positive and negative aspects of the recreational Fee Demonstration Program used for financing the management of public lands in the United States.
I. There are many opinions regarding the Recreational Fee Demonstratio...
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The Challenge Of Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotics have been widely available, and commonly used, for over 50 years. They are beneficial in the treatment of many bacterial infections. They do not have any affect on viral infections. Antibiotics restrain the growth of, and / or kill, bacte...
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Enviromental Problems
In my paper, I plan to explain why the United States and other nations cannot get along when it comes to environmental issues. I plan to break up the paper into three sections that contains what global warming is and how it effects the world, the United States probl...
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Coral Reefs
Coral bleaching is the whitening of coral colonies due to the loss of symbiotic zooxanthellae from the tissues of polyps (Guilcher 1988). This loss exposes the white calcium carbonate skeletons of the coral, yet coral naturally lose about 0.1% of their zooxanthellae during re...
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Pollution
Factory and business owners have the ability to prevent air pollution.
The government should take action, requiring equipment to cut down on
hydrocarbons in the atmosphere. The little time spent regulating equipment
used in factories can go a long way saving billions on he...
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Population Growth
Do you live in a city full of people that seem to be
increasing in number every day? Or maybe you live in a rural
area that more and more people are moving to. If you do you
have personally experienced the effects of population
growth. Population growth effects the a...
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Oil Spills
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: the Harm That Followed
Almost 14,000 oil spills are reported each year. The Exxon Valdez oil spill is one these reported and also one of the worlds most known. It was not the largest spill, but it had the most detrimental environmental effects k...
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Epicureanism
There is no doubt that our planet faces major threats to its longevity and well being due to the actions of humanity in the past and the current conditions humanity places it under today. Change is in order if human beings are to live harmoniously with nature. A philosophy ...
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Environmental Issues
Pike, J.R., J.H. Shaw, D.M. Leslie Jr., M.G. Shaw and J.E. Smith. 1999. A geographic
analysis of the status of mountain lions in Oklahoma. Wildlife Society Bulletin
Wildlife managers in the state of Oklahoma manage many species of animals in their state parks and...
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Mascots
Do you remember when you went to your school football games and seen the schools mascots. Well how would you like it if the board of education said you were humiliating someones cultural? The only way to fix it is to get rid of the mascot that has been symbolizing your school ...
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Non-farm Employment
Some major problems that confront Rural Non-farm Employment are as follows
Changes in consumer preferences - The problems of low demand and excessive competition are the major problems that rural non-farm employment faces. They appear to be caused by a lack of ability...
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Evidences Of Evolution
Student body, I have written a paper on evolution. I hope you take notice in this article and give evolution a chance. Many of you dont believe in evolution. Well take this chance to give it another thought.
First and foremost, you have to look at structural ada...
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Electricity Deregulation
Title: Electricity Deregulation: The Downsides of Breaking Up a Monopoly
Thesis: The deregulation of electricity will produce numerous negative
results if states dont enact guidelines to supervise the production of electricity.
Purpose: To show that althou...
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