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- 3951: The Rain Forest
- ... Occidental Petroleum try to bribe and trick the natives of the rainforest into giving them their land. This oil company was unsuccessful in trying to illegally force the people of the rainforest to sign away rights to the land which would violate the Ecuadorian and international law protecting indigenous people. This will hopefully set an example for the companies of the rest of the world who want to cut down the ...
- 3952: Management Techniques For The Red-Cockaded Woodpecker On Federal Lands
- ... undeveloped land is federally administered, making the enactment of widespread management policies feasible, and controversies are apt to center around questions of access and use, rather than the more difficult problems concerned with private property rights. MATERIALS AND METHODS This report will focus on the current techniques being explored and enacted to stabilize and increase red-cockaded woodpecker populations on federal lands throughout its previous range. Three areas of concern regarding ...
- 3953: Landfills: A Growing Menace
- ... enacted in unison is the only option that can stop the growing mounds of trash that are piling up around the country. Works Cited: Gore, Albert. Earth in the Balance. New York: Houghton, 1992. MacKibben, Bill. The End of Nature. New York: Random House, 1989. Miller, G. Tyler, Jr. Living in the Environment. Belmont CA: Wadsworth, 1994. Rathje, William and Cullen Murphy. Rubbish!. New York: Harper, 1992. Turk, Jonathan. Environmental Science ...
- 3954: Fluoride
- ... Alternatives to community water fluoridation remain useful only for populations significantly isolated from public water systems. Nearly 145 million Americans are currently receiving the benefits of optimally fluoridated water. With the 1995 enactment of Assembly Bill 733 in California, ten states and territories in the United States now mandate fluoridation through legislation. Besides California, these include seven other states (Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio and South Dakota), as well as ...
- 3955: Chimpanzee
- ... that is called the "alpha-male." Many of the male chimpanzees spend a lot of energy and run risks of serious injury in pursuit of higher status. The rewards of the alpha male are claiming rights to the food, female partners, and he also acquires a position exempt from attack by fellow chimps.(Goodall, 1979:616) However, the latter discussion has dealt solely with inter-group aggression, (fighting within groups of ...
- 3956: The Importance of the Ozone Layer
- ... wildly each day. In the northern latitudes there can be up to 40% difference than the day before. And in the equator regions, there might be no variance at all. Unfortunately, the Congress passed a bill reducing the production of CFC's based on a NASA document. This document only told half of the truth. It said that chlorine was high in an area. What it didn't say was that ...
- 3957: The Ozone Layer
- ... levels are expected to peak around 1998. There are currently steps being made to protect the ozone. One such step is the 1987 Montreal Protocol on substances that harmed the ozone. 37 nations signed the bill, it read that the signing nations cut down on the use of chlorofluorocarbons and to completely stop CFC emissions by the year 2000. In general people are waking up to this serious problem; as well ...
- 3958: Nuclear Legacy
- ... an affect on our planet. If I were a member in one of these communities, I would take the Department of energy to court, because they have no right to take away any of the rights we are entitled to as citizens of America. Second of all, I would petition to the government that we have the construction of these disposal sites to be halted, as they endanger the lives of ...
- 3959: Cloning
- ... second time in life. One thing for sure, cloning is bring around a whole new idea to peoples heads. Works Cited Facklam and Margery. From Cell to Clone. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1979 Lawren, Bill. Bionic Body Building. --: Longevity Publications Internation, Ltd., 1991. Rensberger, Boyce. The Frightful Invasion of the Body Doubles will have to Wait. Washington, D.C.:Washington Post, 1993 Robertson, John A. The Question of Human Cloning ...
- 3960: The Destruction of the Ozone Layer
- ... wildly each day. In the northern latitudes there can be up to 40% difference than the day before. And in the equator regions, there might be no variance at all. Unfortunately, the Congress passed a bill reducing the production of CFC's based on a NASA document. This document only told half of the truth. It said that chlorine was high in an area. What it didn't say was that ...
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