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Earth Sciences essays:
Adverse Effects of the Environment on the Aquaculture Industry in the U.S.
... the ever increasing growth in the population of the world comes the challenge of how to keep up with the demand for food, especially in the shadow of Third World poverty. The sea has always been a rich source of aquatic food for civilizations ...
The Dead Sea is dying
... the problem. The first dilemma and by far the greatest is the diversion of 90 percent of the Jordan River for usage in Israel, Jordan, and Syria. The subsequent problem is pollution and the development of hotels, spas, and solar evaporation ponds in the local area around the Dead Sea . The ...
Granting Legal Rights to Immigrants.
... food, paying bills, mortgage payments of rent etc. Without a clean source of income nobody can survive but creates an unnecessary burden on the society. Hence "JOB" plays a very important role in today's economy. But during the great depression when unemployment rate exceeded to 20%, the crime rate ...
Global Warming. 5 pages. Causes, effects, and possible solutions, such as: the kyoto treaty, "sinks", and hemp.
... solar power. The second project is preserving and restoring forests. This would greatly contribute to saving different types of eco-systems. Right now developing countries are insisting that industrial countries make the first reductions. All countries will need to participate if the world ...
What is Asbestos? How is it a health problem?
... of it has been used in the United States and elsewhere, because many asbestos-containing products remain in buildings, ships, industrial facilities and other environments where the fibers can become airborne, and because of the serious human health hazards of ...
This is a project on Landslides
... the United States and the Rocky mountains. Between 25 and 50 people die each year from landslides in the United States. Examples Vaiont, Italy, 1963 One of the world's highest arch dams was built in Vaiont , Italy in 1960. Three years later, at 10:41 pm on the night of 9th October, millions of ...
Global Warming: Fact or Fiction.
... of global warming. It seems that everything that occurs in our world lately has been blamed on global warming - hurricanes, droughts, fires, floods, blizzards, and even insect plagues. Other fallacies sited are: In the United States, recent years have been the ...
Critique of "Population Bomb" by Paul Ehrlich
... the available food supply. When this happened the laws of supply and demand took over and caused massive inflation in food costs and causes marginal farm land to be put into production. All of these signs caused a period of time with severe shortages in food. In 1966 alone the world population ...
This is about the Differences in Cyclones and Anti-Cyclones
... -cyclone is the why they move. When an anti-cyclone rotates it splits apart, and then the two parts move away from each other. An anti-cyclone also moves counter-clockwise. But a cyclone moves clockwise. They move is way because of the air ...
The ways in which human beings can conserve the environment.
... the advent of technology and machines, mankind has slowly sunk deeper into the recesses of destruction, rather than necessity. Blessed with the gift of intelligence mankind must make an effort to curb the slow, but sure depletion and destruction of the ...