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- 4681: Water Pollution
- ... to the water pollution are businesses that repair and maintain motor vehicles, electroplate, operate printing and coping equipment, perform dry cleaning and laundry services, process photographs, operate labs, involve building and construct roads, provide pest control, preserve wood, and make Furniture. Water pollution doesnΉt just effect humans, it affects are whole ecosystem. Birds and marine life are affected by it. More than fifty species of birds are known to ingest ...
- 4682: Water Biomes
- ... frogs, and many aquatic insects. Salt marshes are wintering grounds for snow geese and ducks, a nesting habitat for herons and rails, and a source of nutrients for estuarine waters. Marshes are important in flood control, in sustaining high-water tables, and as settling basins to reduce pollution downstream. Despite their great environmental value, marshes are continually being destroyed by drainage and filling. Marine Life, plants and animals of the sea ...
- 4683: Using Bicycles As An Alternative To Automobiles
- ... due to the ISTEA and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. States were not required to have long-range transportation plans until ISTEA was passed, and Metropolitan Planning Organizations have had little or no control over project selection until now. Because of this fact, in the past, State highway agencies have dominated the spending of highway and transportation dollars. Plans developed at the city level would often contain many worthy ...
- 4684: Time To Change
- ... not practicable. We need to set standards and ideals that can realistically be accomplished. It is not possible to change the world in one day. Instead of killing ninety percent of the population, we might control the number of offspring allowed to each individual. This approach would more likely be sustained. In order to conserve the earth, we should section off small portions all over the globe, as opposed to completely ...
- 4685: Winston Churchill
- ... was finally diminished. His death signified the passing of a great man. Winston Churchill was given a State Funeral, an honor bestowed on few outside the Royal Family. He was also given a twenty-one gun salute.21 Churchill achieved fame as a politician, war leader, historian, and writer. Although all of these were his accomplishments, the greatest was that of living a life of service to all mankind. He is ...
- 4686: Temagami
- ... However, for the time being, it appeared that the NDP was as hurtful through their inaction as any past government. And today the PC government appears to be doing nothing to keep the out of control lumber industry in check. Logging practices continue to decimate the landscape, replacing it with rows of arrow straight man-made trees. It appears that each successive government is more willing to promise to support the ...
- 4687: Should The Harris Superquarry Go Ahead?
- ... could provide a cheap piggyback for distributing local produce. (New Scientist 1994) 3.5 The environmental concerns * Ships ballast water could introduce foreign species of sea life. This is a concern because without predatory biological control any introduced species could multiply rapidly and put the local marine ecosystem at risk. (New Scientist 1994) There is particular concern over the introduction of toxic phytoplankton species. (SNH 1994) * The area is home to ...
- 4688: Recommendation For Recycling Water in Florida
- ... irrigation of public access areas (golf courses, parks, schools, and other landscaped areas), residential properties, and edible food crops. Other urban uses of reclaimed water, such as toilet flushing, aesthetic uses, fire protection, construction dust control, and others, also are regulated by Part III. The WMD for the south region of Florida stated that in 1995, six percent of the 243 individual water use permits issued included reuse. All of the ...
- 4689: The Rain Forest
- ... this plant, the survival rate of victims of leukemia has risen form one in five to four in five (Nichol 78-79). On a global basis, the rainforests are of extreme importance because they help control the Earth's climate. The plants in the forest store carbon dioxide in their roots, stems, branches, and leaves which lessens the greenhouse effect, consequently, lessening global warming. Also, when rain falls in the rainforest ...
- 4690: Warren G. Harding
- ... he found "a very pleasant place." An Ohio admirer, Harry Daugherty, began to promote Harding for the 1920 Republican nomination because, he later explained, "He looked like a President." Thus a group of Senators, taking control of the 1920 Republican Convention when the principal candidates deadlocked, turned to Harding. He won the Presidential election by an unprecedented landslide of 60 percent of the popular vote. Republicans in Congress easily got the ...
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