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- 9431: How Toxic Waste Affects Canadas Natural Environment
- ... water supplies and contaminate huge areas. If the land that is intoxicated supports plant life, most of the plants and trees will die off. If humans occupy the area, it could cause serious illness or death. For example, an area by Niagara Falls (US side) was used during the 1930s by a chemical company to dump its waste. Most of them were hazardous, and the containers that held the chemicals later ...
- 9432: The Destruction of Red Tides
- ... and oysters absorbs toxins from the microorganisms. "Typically, the shellfish themselves are affected only slightly, but a single clam can sometimes pack enough poison to kill a human." (New York Times: Aug 27, 1996) Although death to humans from this poison is rare, serious symptoms like nausea, dizziness, fever, tingling in the extremities, and dilated pupils are much more common. JoAnn M. Burkholder, a scientist at North Carolina State University at ...
- 9433: Creationism and Darwinism
- ... of the universe was originally created rather than randomly exploding from nothingness into chance existence. We reside on the surface of a small superbly crafted, autonomous self regulating space vehicle. Together with survival, conquest and death we bear witness to beauty, fragrances, love and music. Think about this. Mathematics, philosophy, springtime, depravity, farming, courtship, quasars, and bubble gum; all came from nothingness?, formed by chance...
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- 9434: Science and Ethics
- ... The first example of man performing corrupt experiments is genetic engineering. In this case, man alters the genes of the fetus. This might be acceptable if the reason for the alteration is a life or death situation. If the baby will not be able to live without the procedure being done, then it is acceptable. But nowadays, doctors are performing genetic engineering to pre-determine the babys sex. If parents ...
- 9435: The Prairie Dog: Friend Or Foe?
- ... are when the cats bring (fleas) home with them. In reality, officials consider the risk to humans minimal. The plague is easily treatable with antibiotics. But if it is not detected early, complications and possibly death may result. The prairie dog is an essential part of our prairie ecosystem. Without strong prairie dog populations, other species are likely to become endangered also. Biologists are engaged in many studies with prairie dogs ...
- 9436: Dangers of Methyl Bromide
- ... substance. Although the devastating effects of the depletion of the ozone layer are not visible, the health problems it causes are. Conditions range from mild headaches, dizziness, damage to the brain and respiratory system, to death. Not only are these short term sicknesses health concerning, but also the long term problems such as birth defects that will carry on through to the next generation. There have been enough sicknesses and fatalities ...
- 9437: An Agricultural Movement
- ... contaminated sulphuric acid, used then to make glucose for cheap beer. People in the poorest classes, who could only afford this cheap beer, were displaying these symptoms, along with neurological problems and in severe cases, death. An estimated seventy people died and six thousand became seriously ill from pesticide poisoning. (83). As the Industrial Revolution continued, more and more chemicals were available to farmers, pesticides such as Malathion, DDT, dioxin and ...
- 9438: Nuclear Power
- ... rems, severe changes in blood cells and hemorrhage takes place. If someone were to receive more than 600 rems, symptoms would be hairloss, loss in your bodies ability to fight infection and usually results in death. (World Book vol. 16, 79) As you can see, the effects of radiation sickness is not too pleasant. The main reason for building a repository is to keep people and the environment safe from deadly ...
- 9439: The Effects of Hurricane Gilbert
- ... also destroyed. A large productive crop the "ganja" or the marijuana crop, was destroyed as well (Trippett 18). Jamaica's sugar crop and the prized bauxite were virtually untouched by Gilbert's harsh winds. The death toll of Hurricane Gilbert was estimated to be at 260. ("Notable Hurricanes" 302). These deaths include drowning, houses collapsing on people, and those that were caught in the storm and disappeared. More deaths were caused ...
- 9440: Genetic Engineering: A Leap In To The Future Or A Leap Towards Destruction
- ... treatment of dwarfism and interferons for treatment of cancers and viral diseases (Stableford 34). Throughout the centuries disease has plagued the world, forcing everyone to take part in a virtual "lottery with the agents of death" (Stableford 59). Whether viral or bacterial in nature, such disease are currently combated with the application of vaccines and antibiotics. These treatments, however, contain many unsolved problems. The difficulty with applying antibiotics to destroy bacteria ...
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