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CLIMATE CHANGES: Climate changes have a key role to play when there is flooding because of the vast weather pattern changes.
Firstly, Global Warming is one of the main causes of flooding due to changes in the climate. For example, due to the increasing levels of man-made greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, causing the climate to get warmer it is changing the climate in some regions which are now experiencing increased precipitation and flooding.
Secondly, the Melting of Glaciers are increasing the risk of flooding. Identically, due to the warmer atmospheric temperatures, our world's ?ice caps? ...
Black Light. What is it? It is a portion of the Ultra-Violet Spectrum that is invisible to our eyes. We can not distinguish it. However, when this radiation impinges on certain materials visible light is emitted and this is known as "fluorescence." Fluorescence is visible to the human eye, in that it makes an object appear to "glow in the dark...
: The science by aid of which the chemical philosophers of medieval times attempted to transmute the baser metals into gold or silver. There is considerable divergence of opinion as to the etymology of the word, but it would seem to be derived from the Arabic al=the, and kimya=chemistry, which in turn derives from the late Greek chemica=chemistry,...
A few years ago if you were to ask someone about the possibilities of they would most likely say it was impossible. This attitude towards has been held into belief up until recently when scientists in Scotland cloned a sheep. And immediately after scientists in Oregon cloned a monkey (Fackelmann 276). The most major breakthroughs of the century i...
When many people thing of the United States, they envision a land of freedom, prosperity, and wealth. However, environmentalists see a different land, one containing six percent of the world's population, and yet producing twenty-five percent of the world's pollution. This is because much of our prosperity is direct result of our exploitation of...
is what we see. It can be thought of either as a particle, (the photon), or as a wave. The photon we can easily think of as a small dot travelling through space at the speed of . Each photon has a particular colour or energy. But how do we think of as a wave? For this we need to know that is also an "Electro-magnetic field" -- a combination of el...
Autumn, in a deeper sense, is a magnificent ending to an era. Although all the leaves fall and the sun fails to shine for as long each day as it did during the summer, the death of the cycle of the living seasons is spectacular. It brings vibrant color, tolerable weather, and the promise that it will return again in the spring. Like life, people sp...
In the past three decades, steroids has been becoming a serious problem more than ever in the athletic field. Steroids are anabolic drug "to build" growth hormones that include the androgens (male sex hormones) principally testosterone and estrogen and progestogens (female sex hormones). Steroids were first developed for medical purposes. They'...
Imagine a world without chemicals. Even though they sound so horrible, we use them in all most everything. Like the saying goes, 'can't live with them, can't live without them,' chemicals are involved in our everyday lives, yet they are so forgien to the human body. When people interact with these things the wrong way they get hurt, so it doesn'...
In the United States, the media has a tendency to report only the negative details of everything. Such was the case in the late 1960's and early 1970's when the pesticide DDT was investigated and eventually prohibited. Most of the claims against DDT remain unproved to this day. There were three main allegations against DDT: that DDT caused the de...
Genetic Engineering, history and future Altering the Face of Science. Science is a creature that continues to evolve at a much higher rate than the beings that gave it birth. The transformation time from tree-shrew, to ape, to human far exceeds the time from analytical engine, to calculator, to computer. But science, in the past, has always remain...
Brown J. Jed, Glenn Edward P., and O?Leary James W. 1998. Irrigating Crops with Seawater. Scientific American. ?? talks about the global problem of finding enough water and land for the world?s population to survive. An estimated 494.2 million acres of cropland is needed just to feed the tropics and subtropics for the next 30 years. H...
This report involves a well description on acid rain as well as a focus on acid rain in eastern Canada. This report contains a very helpful basic background on acid rain as well as a questionnaire. It involves an annual report on the Federal-Provincial Agreements, sulphur dioxide emissions in the seven most eastern provinces, trends in acid depos...
In order to assess the one must first take an overview of the whole of the whole disease. One must understand the disease and its enormity on a global basis. Malaria is a protozoan disease of which over 150 million cases are reported per annum. In tropical Africa alone more than 1 million children under the age of fourteen die each year from Malar...
Killer Whale, a name to strike terror in the hearts of sea ferers in all the oceans of the world. The Romans called it Orca, meaning "The demon from Hell." Originally, american fisherman referred to them as "Whale Killer" because many fisherman reported seeing pods of them attacking and killing Humpback, Gray, and even Blue Whales. Somehow the name...
