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- 441: Ocean Environment
- ... is separated from the island or mainland, and may be a few miles distant. The Great Barrier reef is over a thousand miles long, forming an off-shore break-water for the east coast of Australia. An atoll is a circular surrounding a lagoon, often not associated with any obvious land. Atolls occur mainly in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, rising abruptly from the deep seas. A few centuries ago scientist ...
- 442: Circulation Systems Over China
- ... N, a steep pressure gradient occurs which produces strong and persistent north- westerlies over Northeast China. A third pressure system which affects China, although limited only to south-eastern China, is the equatorial Low over Australia and New Guinea. The vast territory of East China lies in the middle of the path along which the Mongolian cold air tries to rush southward into the Equatorial Low. Northerly and north-easterly flows ...
- 443: Water Pollution
- ... that is all the government is doing. People in cities are organizing water pollution groups. A lot of people are producing fliers and giving them out. The are asking people to adapt a waterway. In Australia they had a national clean up day and went out to the ocean and cleaned it up. I think the people are taking this more seriously than the government. We need to start cleaning up ...
- 444: Time To Change
- ... future existence of this world. A group labeled the Earth-Firsters' often attempt to accomplish this task through drastic and sometimes dangerous methods. As Joni Seager states ( The Eco-Fringe: Deep Ecology, Pg. 636), "In Australia, Earth-First protesters buried themselves up to their necks in the sand in the middle of logging roads to stop lumbering operations; in the American Southwest, Earth Firsters handcuffed themselves to trees and bulldozers to ...
- 445: Purple Loosestrife
- ... now found world wide in wet, marshy places, coastal areas, ditches and stream banks. (See Figure 2) It is prevalent in most of Europe and Asia, the former USSR, the Middle East, North Africa, Tasmania, Australia and North America. It has not been found in cold Arctic regions. In North America purple loosestrife is located between the Canadian territories and north of the 35th parallel with the exception of Montana. The ...
- 446: Ehrlich's Population Bomb
- ... their own food production has declined. Ehrlich says, " Most of these countries now rely heavily on imports. As the crisis deepens, where will the imports come from? Not from Russia.Not from Canada, Argentina, or Australia. They need money and will be busy selling to food-short countries such as Russia, who can afford to buy. From the US then? They will get some, perhaps, but not anywhere near enough. Our ...
- 447: Smuggling of Nuclear Material
- ... religious fevor and hatred for the west. On March 20, 1995 the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo attacked some Japanese civilians with deadly gas. The terrorist group had also tride to mine its own uranium in Australia. Organized crime is a powerful and pervasive force in Russia. The CIA estimates 200 large sophisticated criminal organized operations. They've established international smuggling networks and have connections to governmental officials. The access to nuclear ...
- 448: Human Evolution
- ... sometime after a million years ago, and into the temperate parts of these continents about 500,000 years ago. Much later (perhaps 50,000 years ago) hominines were able to cross the water barrier into Australia. Only after the appearance of modern humans did people move into the New World, some 30,000 years ago. It is likely that the increase in human brain size took place as part of a ...
- 449: El Nino
- ... El Nino also caused typhoons to hit Hawaii and Tahiti. The monsoon rains that fell over the central Pacific, instead of on the Western side, led to terrible droughts and forest fires in Indonesia and Australia. Also, winter storms struck southern California and caused a lot of flooding across the southern United States, while northern regions of the USA received unusually mild winters and a lack of snow. Obviously, El Nino ...
- 450: Effects of Deforestation
- ... Pearce, 1987). Some areas also become "unbalanced" with the removal of tree roots as this removal can cause serious mud slides and unstability which can be seen in the in the tropical rain forests of Australia (Gilmour et al., 1982; as cited in Hamilton and Pearce, 1987) and Malaysia (Peh, 1980; as cited in Hamilton and Pearce, 1987). It should be mentioned that recent logging techniques have decreased the amount of ...
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