It is not a question that would immediately spring to mind, but how many of you realize that being injured through lightening strikes or even killed by one, is a reality that many Americans have to face each year? Each…
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The New Jersey Pine Barrens are located along the New Jersey coastline and up the eastern seaboard as far north as Maine. The pine barren thrives in areas were lakes and riverbeds are out washed out over time. Out washing…
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Tornado Alley is a name given to a very special set of states in the United States of America. They are the states that, sadly, experience the most tornados in the entire world. The states included in Tornado Alley include,…
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The losses of honey bee populations continue to rise all across the United States. Diseases from pesticides are thought to be one of the causes. Honey bees are very essential for pollination of many plants, fruits and vegetables. Billions of…
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The BP oil spill in the Gulf Of Mexico presents challenges that have been faced before, but it also presents challenges that are new and unprecedented, making any bio-remediation and cleanup something that will require innovation, creativity and even inventions…
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While many continue to debate society’s responsibility for the accelerated pace of climate change the world is currently experiencing, one thing is for sure. Human beings are definitely responsible for the contamination at Superfund Sites across the United States. Superfund…
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Solar energy is free and readily available to all and using it, to cook in a solar box cooker, saves the energy of electricity, natural gas, coal, batteries and charcoal as it protects natural resources such as our forests. While…
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Contemporary society’s growing thirst for oil, coupled with the full development and exploitation of the more easily available sources of oil (such as Middle Eastern oil), mean that Western nations have been steadily pushing farther and farther into previously prohibitively…
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Water is an important resource that is often taken for granted. Unfortunately the fact that it is taken for granted means that it is often wasted both at work and at home. While there is not much that you can…
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Mexico is a land of many biomes. The Tropic of Cancer makes a division of the country into tropical ,subtropical, temperate semi arid and desert biomes. There is forest, with about 70 percent in the tropical category and 30 percent in the…
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