The fundamental reason humans could not survive without vegetation is that vegetation releases oxygen. Plant life intakes carbon dioxide and releases it as oxygen through the process of photosynthesis. This is the sole reason other complex life forms have…
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Although forest fires cause problems, or even tragedy, for humans, they are essential in the maintenance and development of forest ecosystems. Government actions, such as the Healthy Forests Initiative, are being taken to reduce forest fires but the effects of…
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To understand the Benthic Biome, an understanding of the world’s largest biome, the Ocean Biome and its various zones. In the Ocean biome, in order, there are the intertidal, pelagic, benthic, abyssal and hadal zones. Thus the benthic zone is the…
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Human population density doesn’t need to adversly affect water supply. Hum,an political and social organization of a maladaptive structure deplete and degrade water supply, and that is potentially subject to reform. Human poltiical organization historically is badly formed with the…
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Brown clouds are one of the newest and potentially one of the greatest threats to the health of our environment. Scientists are feverishly studying brown clouds as they are perhaps detrimental to the health of the environment. Brown clouds are…
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A water crisis is a nice phrase that has all of the implications approriate for bureaucracy. It is the sort of thing that happens ‘out there’ someplace else if one is watered enough to write about it perhaps. Anthropogenic water…
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Living in an affluent country like the United States with abundant natural resources it is easy to forget just how important things like fresh water are, and even in those parts of the country where there are water shortages it…
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The Jacobshann glacier, also called the Jacobshann Isbrae or Sermeq Kujalleq is one of the largest glaciers in Greenland and in addition to its great beauty this glacier has been one of the most studied of all glaciers in the…
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There are several advantages to slant drilling that are causing a lot of interest around the country with environmentalists. First of all, with slant drilling, you can actually drill several wells by using one platform. This takes up less space,…
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Slant drilling is most commonly called directional drilling, though it is also called horizontal and deviated drilling. It is the process of drilling non-vertical wells or indirect paths to an oil reserve that cannot be reached by drilling directly under…
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