The Orinoco (oren-o-ko) River winds and twists through the lands of South America before it empties into the Atlantic Ocean. It begins is flow in the Parima Mountains between Venezuela and Brazil and makes an arch through Venezuela before it…
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World Water Monitoring. How Clean Is Your Water? On behalf of the U.S Clean Water Act., the World Environment Federation set up a project known as World Water Monitoring Day. This program enlists the help of millions of citizens from…
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When considering why the ocean is salty, the most basic explanation centers on the water cycle, the method by which water is continuously distributed around the Earth. The water cycle is a never-ending process. Since we have to start somewhere,…
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Is there any chance that the great rivers on this wonderful, beautiful blue planet will not die? How can we stop this dying off of our most cherished and important natural resource before it is too late? Can we, or…
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This topic cannot be discussed without first stating some facts about the Amazon River. In addition to being the world’s second largest river it is also the world’s widest river producing 20% of all the freshwater that is poured into…
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Starting as a modest stream in the Peruvian Andes, the Amazon flows south and east until, by the time it reaches the Atlantic Ocean, it is the largest river on Earth by volume and the second longest. Over the course…
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There are approximately 1,322 billion cubic kilometers of water in our earth’s oceans, providing a home to many different types of ocean habitats in which organisms, plants and animals live. With approximately 70% of this planet covered in water and…
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The 2012 year is one that holds an endless array of theory and speculation, but none of it yet has substance or meaning beyond anything other than another “Doomsday Theory” based on past documents and writings that cannot viably foresee…
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I know that some of my suggestions for conserving water may seem extreme and make people go ‘eeeeewwww’, but I’m hoping some folks will at least think about them or try them. Do you really need to take as many…
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Ocean habitats refer to places in and near oceans, where certain organisms and other living things that are comfortable with seawater live, survive and thrive. These habitats do not exist only in the oceans but also the immediate environment; a…
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