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- 8341: Landfills: A Growing Menace
- ... into our water supply at this very moment, with no way to stop them. For example, the Fresh Kills landfill leaks an estimated one million gallons of toxic sludge into the surrounding water table every day [Miller 527]. Sanitary landfills do offer certain advantages however. Offensive odors, which characterized waste depositories at one time are dramatically reduced by the daily cover of clay or other material over the garbage. Vermin and ...
- 8342: The Hippopotamus: Endangered Species Report
- ... they keep these grasses well-trimmed which may help to prevent grass fires. Hippos are an important part of the African ecosystem. If the hippos become extinct, and the likelihood grows more and more each day, the repercussions it may have on the fragile African ecosystem are tremendous. Imagine a brush fire consuming acres of previously-livable land under the hot African sun. These people have no way to put out ...
- 8343: Hemp: The Truth About the Earth's Greatest Plant
- ... we have an even greater cause than that; the success of the planet. We cannot continue to butcher our forests and pollute our soil and water with chemicals to meet the demands of our every day lives. In turn we will never be able convince enough people to change the way they live to do any good. Fortunately, we have the perfect solution right under our noses: hemp. However, this solution ...
- 8344: Albert Einstein 4
- ... to power. It was then when he gained a position at the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton, New Jersey. In 1939, Einstein worked together with other physicists by writing a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, acknowledging the possibilities of making an atomic bomb and the likelihood that the German government would launch efforts in the same field. As a result to Einstein s letter, the U.S made urgent ...
- 8345: Global Warming
- ... The Greenhouse Effect, Climatic Change, and U. S. Forests (1987) Stone, P., "Forecast Cloudy," Technology Review, Feb./Mar. 1992 Weiner, Jonathan, The Next One Hundred Years: Shaping the Fate of Our Living Earth (1990) Wuebbles, D., Primer on Greenhouse Gases (1991).
- 8346: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russian Dissident
- ... but he always resisted (Academic American Encyclopedia Sno-Sz, p 59). Eventually he sent in his story "Shch-845" which was written in 1954. It got past censoring and was published under the title "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and was an immediate success (The Encyclopedia Americana, p 210). Throughout the 60's and 70's, the Soviet government repeatedly accused him of slandering the country's government ...
- 8347: Estuaries
- ... United States that are in the NEP. There are also small estuaries. Such resources include the Mississippi and Alabama estuaries. The GNP, National Estuary Program's basic purpose is to bring new life to present-day estuaries.
- 8348: Effects of Deforestation
- ... declining wildlife populations, drastic changes in climate and loss of soil. The loss of forests means the loss of habitats for many species. Current statistics show that as many as 100 species become extinct every day with a large portion being attributed to deforestation (Delfgaauw, 1996). "Edge effects" are the destruction or degradation of natural habitat that occur on the fringes of fragmented forests. The effects for the animals include greater ...
- 8349: Deforestation
- ... billion metric tons. Deforestation accounts for about 33% of the annual emissions of carbon dioxide by humans. In 1987 11 countries were responsible for about 82% of this net carbon release: Brazil, Indonesia, Colombia, Cote d'Ivoire, Thailand, Laos, Nigeria, Vietnam, Philippines, Myanmar and India. During 1987 when there was intense land clearing by fire in Brazil's Amazon, more than 1.2 million metric tons of carbon are believed to ...
- 8350: Cfcs Cause Deterioration of the Ozone Layer
- ... to the environment, we are still left with many decades of decreasing ozone and increased UV exposure. We must think long term and act now. Works Cited Farman, J.C., B.G. Gardiner, and J.D. Shankin. Large losses of total ozone in Antartica reveal seasonal CIOx/NOx interaction. Nature v.230 (Aug.4,1985): p.205- 215. Roach, M. "Sun Track." Health v.201 (May/June 1992): p.119-125 ...
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