Floyd Hurricane Hur-ri-cane (n) 1. A tropical cyclone usually involving heavy rains And winds exceeding 74 mph. (119 kph.) From carib [huracan] What is a hurricane? Encarta defines it as a tropical cyclone with winds up to 74 mph (119 kph.) To many people it means destruction. Hurricane Floyd caused tremendous destruction to Amer...
Summary: This paper looks at the controversial issue of climatic change. In particular, it develops the question of if and why earth's climate is changing? The roles of man, naturally occurring trends, and earth's cycles are considered, and an outlook for what can be expected in the near and distant future is given. 'The une...
Cannabis Sativa Marijuana is available anywhere in the world, as the black market is widespread and thriving very well. It has even started to be widespread in local malls where all kinds of hemp (marijuana) products for everyday use are becoming available. Marijuana goes under many names like Pot, Grass, Hash, Reefer, MaryJane, Weed a...
As the world's expanding population burns large quantities of fossil fuels and simultaneously cuts down large expanses of forests worldwide, the concentrations of CO2 and other greenhouse gases are building up in the atmosphere. "The green house effect is the (imperfect) analogy used to explain the atmospheric phenomenon that keeps our planet w...
The global energy balance and atmospheric motion mainly determine the circulation of the earth?s atmosphere. There is a hierarchy of motion in atmospheric circulation. Each control can be broken down into smaller controlling factors. The global energy balance is an equal balance of short-wave radiation coming into the atmosp...
Air Pollution Air, is the most essential element for all living organisms and yet, most humans play a big role on polluting this essential resource. Air pollution may not be as dangerous in its direct outcome as nuclear or water pollution can be, but in the long term it will have an tremendous effect on the environment and health of its o...
Endangered species are living things whose population is so reduced that they are threatened with extinction. Thousands of species are included in this category. The International Union for the Conservation of nature and Natural Resources publishes a list of threatened mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and (many people do not consider t...
(May 1987) By Martin H. Goodman MD (this essay is in the public domain) Introduction:AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS disease is at present a sentence of slow but inevitable death. I?ve already lost one friend to AIDS. I may soon lose others. My own sexual behavior and that...
Half man and half beast. This is what is usually said about the gorilla. They say that the gorilla is related to us. You can find mountain gorillas in the Virunga Volcanoes, which are located on the boundaries of Zaire, Rwanda, and Uganda. The Virungas are 600 miles of tropical rainforest. You?ll find then roaming around 7,800 and 11,00...
SOURCES: 1) The amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere has been increasing rapidly over the last few decades and continues to do so. 2) Historically, the trends in increase of carbon dioxide started in the late 1700's. This was the approximate time of the Industrial Revolution. At this time, the carbon dioxide concentration was...
Mars is the fourth planet from the sun at about 228 million-km (141 million miles) and the last terrestrial planet from the sun. The next five planets in order from the sun are gaseous. Mars follows closely behind Earth but is comparatively smaller, with about half the diameter of Earth and about one-tenth of Earth?s mass. Thus the force of...
AIR POLUTION Problem: The first thing people see, in the morning, when they walk outside is the sky or the colored sun. Is this world giving us the privilege of seeing the natural colors of the sun through all the layers of pollution within the air (Dinanike 31)? Not only are beautiful sights such as this hidden behind the pollution...
CD:ROM drives are the thing of the future. CD:ROMs are used in almost every computer around the world. CD:ROM stands for COMPACT DISK READ ONLY MEMORY. That means that you can only read information off the disk. Three and a half disks are disks that you can read and wriye infromation from. Five and a quarter can do the same thing , but do no...
is a very unique and abnormal mental disease. What makes it so interesting is that it causes physical symptoms that someone would not normally experience. ?Mental conflicts are unconsciously converted to symptoms that appear to be physical, but for which no organic cause is found?( 1). One major outburst of hysteria occurred in 1692, result...