Summer, it is the time to laze way long warm days with chilling out meaning relaxing, frequently along a beach. It is a time of flowers going to seed, birds nesting and life taking things easy. In many places the…
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Over nutrition of alge by phoshates and nitrates causes Eutrophication and Hypoxia. This means polluted water sources and endangered ecosystems. Eutriphicaiton comes from the prefix, “Eu” meaning good, and trophic, “meaning tending toward.” In other words, in the natural world…
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Gabbro is not an unusual rock; however, there are some qualities of gabbro that make it, like any other variety of rock, unique and individual. First, gabbro is intrusive and coarse-grained. This means that it formed over a very long…
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Agricultural Chemical, or Agrochemical, is a term given in reference to fertilisers and pesticides [1a]; with each having different effects on our environment. My personal opinion is that the environmental problems associated with the use of Fertilisers are most significant,…
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There are at least three Arctic ice melt records that will be broken soon, possibly within the next week. One is for the lowest level of arctic sea ice ever recorded. The others are for the fastest and the most…
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As a Californian and a solar professional I’ve seen a decent increase in both residential and commercial solar electric installations. In fact, the state trails only Japan and Germany for the amount of photovoltaic (PV) systems in service worldwide. To…
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Earth scientists separate all rocks into three major groups: igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. At that point, the process of identifying and classifying a rock has just begun. For each of the three major groups, there is a classification scheme to divide…
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The largest, most devastating military use of herbicides ever undertaken was by the US in pursuing the Second Indochina, which began on a small scale in 1961 and finally ended during 1971. Herbicide spraying was largely confined to South Vietnam,…
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Bifidus, Hydrogen, I shall discoverIf I could make one scientific discovery it would be to discover a cost-effective method of separating or breaking the hydrogen bonds that form precious water, thus creating pure hydrogen and oxygen; for this scenario we…
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What are they: An environmental site assessment is an investigation of a property that is either commercial or industrial in nature to see if they have been environmentally compromised. They take place in three phases. The first phase develops a…
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