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- 9451: Nuclear Energy
- ... example: 1) Hydro energy, because when created, rivers have to be blocked by dams. Thereby, most likely, flooding of wastelands where certain animal types may have their homes would be destroyed and maybe even cause death to those animals. In saome cases possible extinction.2) Heat energy created by the burning of wood because it is very destructive to our forest. Trees are a necessity of oxygen, shelter and food to ...
- 9452: Wind Tunnels
- ... occurred when the jet planes released there missiles that where on the external part of the plane, the missiles had a tendency to move up when released causing a collision with the plane resulting in death of the pilot .With the wind tunnel the were able to solve this problem with out the lost of any more lives. On February 1, 1956 wind tunnels were so important that the Army formed ...
- 9453: Roswell Incident
- ... a large burned area with lots of debris and three small bodies of space beings. Their heads were large and wore silk like suits. One of the little space beings were still alive. After the death threat she never talked about the incident to anybody ever. The Press Frank Joyce- worked at the radio station KGFL. He got a phone call from Mac Brazel, who reported the wreckage on his ranch ...
- 9454: Salt and Its Uses
- ... and Drug Admistration in 1981. The American Heart Dissociation, the American Medical Association also joined the low-salt appeal. They believe that sodium salt is connected with heart disease, circulator disorder, stroke and even early death. By many doctors and researchers are now beginning to feel that salt has gone too far. At the University of Alabama, a short-term research has been done on 150 people on the effect of ...
- 9455: Tundra and The Artic
- ... wolf and the arctic fox. These play a most crucial role in the Tundra by killing and eating several herbivores. Without this service the herbivores would eat all the plants and end up starving to death. There are also many birds which nest in the tundra during the summer months and then migrate south for the winter. Polar bears as well as brown bears are not uncommon to the arctic Tundra ...
- 9456: Avalanches and Landslides
- ... country explorer must be highly skilled in determining safe routes and rescue procedures over and above relying on predictions of avalanches for personal safety. Avalanches kill people many ways but the most common cause of death is suffocation. There is little air trapped in the avalanche and within a short period of time the victim loses consciousness and dies. A victim can also be killed from the force of the snow ...
- 9457: Water Pollution: Is it as big of a problem as we think?
- ... in serious pollution. Rivers and streams are also greatly affected by these pollutants. The noticeable outcomes of these pollutants are these: Nitrates in drinking water can cause disease in infants that may sometimes end in death. Crops in a field can absorb sludge-derived fertilizer containing cadium, and when humans eat the crop it may result in acute liver and kidney damage. Sometimes lakes become artificially enriched with nutrients from the ...
- 9458: The Evils of Hunting
- ... does hunting reduce the number of animals, it can also be unnecessarily cruel to the creatures. When deer are bowhunted, they often are not instantly killed. Most deer will then suffer a painful and lingering death, as only 50 percent of deer struck are retrieved and put out of their misery. This is unnecessary cruelty; only an end to slob hunting would bring this to a halt. (Satchell 32) In the ...
- 9459: Ehrlich's Population Bomb
- ... will find themselves without adequate food and medicine. Near the end of the chapter Ehrlich explains the cause of the massive increase in population growth; as he explains that science and medicine have decreased the death rate exponentially while the birth rate has not decreased. In "Too Little Food" Ehrlich starts off with the assumption that about 50% of the people in the world are in some degree malnourished. He uses ...
- 9460: Ozone
- ... of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, along with the north eastern corner of Alberta remain in the Canadian Shield region, and are more affected by acid deposition. Acid rain may contribute to declining growth rates and increased death rates in trees. For example, instances of dieback and deterioration have been noted in white birch in southeastern New Brunswick caused by acid fog, and acidic cloud precipitation (Hughs, 1991). High levels of acidic deposition ...
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