Following the tragic and catastrophic accident in the Gulf of Mexico, all attentions are focused on offshore design of installations of oil platforms. For the safe production of oil, control of well pressures during drilling is a fundamental requirement. One…
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Few people realize how important glaciers are to the planet. They may not understand exactly what glaciers are or how they form. Glaciers are essentially huge masses of ice, on land or floating on the sea near to land. Glaciers…
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A bio-dome is a closed ecosystem example of what a sustainable environment is. The rest of the world mostly lives in an open ecosystem that is subject to all forms of abuse, manipulation and neglect. Our level of use is…
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The Meaning of extinction is the sharp decrease in the diversity and abundance of life. Throughout history there have been numerous extinctions that include many different species of life. Anything can be made extinct, plants, animals and humans alike. All…
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Milkweed is a plant that many gardeners consider to be a pest. It grows quite tall and is not very pretty. Also, it spreads quickly and crowds out other plants. Milkweed gets its name from the milky juice that it…
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A sustainable environment is one where resources are conserved effectively. There are three simple rules to optimize sustainability. Most animals and plants co evolved toward a balance that keeps an immense amount of bio diversity interacting within an environment. What…
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The earth is a planet and not an ecosystem but the earth is home to many ecosystems. These ecosystems are where plants and animals interact to create living environments called communities. The ecosystem you should most care about is you….
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East of Palo Alto, the college town associated with Stanford and Silicon Valley, is Byxbee Park, a post-modern park built on bay fill, on compacted garbage. The park makes no attempt to disguise its origins, though the garbage is sealed…
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Swamp gas or marsh gas has been known by many names throughout the ages. The fascination was not with the gas but with the lights they produced. Travellers, campers and hunters generated innumerable stories over the eerie burning light often seen…
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When it comes to environmental science, assessing pollution seems to be one of the main research areas at present, simply because of the growing impact it has on the living organisms including the human beings. Although humans are able to…
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