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03 Feb 2011
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The Greenhouse Effect: Definition, Causes, and Consequences

Thesis - 15 pages - Ecology & environment

Environmental hazards such as storms, tropical cyclones, droughts, etc. have been affecting us for generations. In France, the temperature reached its highest point last summer and reports showed that the August of 2003 experienced a high heat wave with the most dramatic consequences: the...

13 Dec 2010
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How expensive are green jobs?

Thesis - 1 pages - Ecology & environment

There's a lot of talk in the press these days about the cost of green jobs. The new president of the United States, Barack Obama, is pushing for bold investment in renewable energies and technologies that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He is praising the incentives that have been put in...

24 Nov 2010
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Recycling in South Africa

Thesis - 16 pages - Ecology & environment

As part of my third year at the business school of Rennes in South Africa, I had the opportunity to do an international internship for a period of 10 weeks. This course's main objective was to test my ability to adapt. Indeed, during this internship, I had to adapt to a different culture, and...

24 Aug 2010
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Global air pollution and global climate change

Thesis - 3 pages - Ecology & environment

We know that the Earth's climate has changed many times throughout its existence. There have been both ice ages and long periods of warmth. Many natural factors, such as volcanic eruptions, energy absorbed from the sun, and changes in the Earth's orbit have long had an influence on the Earth's...

16 Aug 2010
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Lightning

Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment

Lightning is a natural phenomenon that has always fascinated and frightened humans. Dozens of people are struck by lightning, hundreds of animals are killed and thousands of fires result causing damage totaling to millions of Euros. On an average one airliner is struck by lightning each year. The...

12 Aug 2010
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Solar energy as a viable commercial and industrial power source

Thesis - 2 pages - Ecology & environment

In almost all nations of the world, save for a few oil rich regions in the Middle East and Northern portions of North America, energy has to be purchased and imported. This is a system that leaves many countries without self-sufficiency and will likely bankrupt their governments. The needs for...

12 Aug 2010
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Consumption and environmental degradation

Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment

The world's consensus on the status of the environment is shifting now, more than ever, into one of concern. As the years have passed pass, especially throughout the last decade or two, we have all seen our environment continue to get more depleted. The earth is warming, the oceans are...

05 Aug 2010
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Water's role in the weather and the sustenance of life

Thesis - 2 pages - Ecology & environment

This brings to mind the question; what then is, water? Water seems like such a simple thing. Water is a fluid substance that makes up more than three fifths of the earth's surface. It is an absolutely necessary element for the sustenance of all life on earth including animal, human and plant....

30 Jul 2010
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Climate change

Thesis - 2 pages - Ecology & environment

It is clear, in light of continuing climate change evidence that action must be taken to respond to these developing conditions and to prepare for potential future problems. The most important component of any action plan is maintaining our drive for scientific research into the effects of global...

28 Jul 2010
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Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Is it sustainable?

Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment

Over the past 4 decades, almost 20 percent of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil has been cut down. This area is equivalent to the size of Western Europe. Scientists are now warning that another 20 percent will be lost in the next 2 decades (Wallace, 2007). Selective logging for timber usually...

19 Jul 2010
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Some useful tips for travel photography

Thesis - 2 pages - Ecology & environment

The prime goal of all travel photography is the enjoyment and satisfaction one can get out of it. Each new trip is an act of anticipation of excitement, a reason good enough to enjoy the travel and make it memorable with a camera. With a critical eye on one's own photography skill, one can keep...

13 Jul 2010
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The Gulf oil disaster its effect on the environment

Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment

Oil the most precious natural resource with respect to the current economy. Rapid industrial Growth has contributed to fast depletion of oil resources and forced humanity to rethink its strategy with respect to the exploitation and consumption of it. Countries make huge investments to locate and...

13 Jul 2010
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Water - the liquid gold - Managing a scarce resource

Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment

Picture this: You open your tap in the morning to brush your teeth, and all that you get is the sound of air! Though it sounds exaggerated at the moment, plenty of households throughout the world will face this crisis in the years to come. Often touted as the liquid gold, water is the most...

07 Apr 2010
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Environmentally conscious recycling planning: Strategies and its optimal analysis

Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment

This paper describes a stochastic production planning problem for an environmentally conscious recycling technique to adequately cope with unpredictable recovery rate of end-of-life products towards a more sustainable pattern of production. The model is formulated as a nonlinear integer...

05 Apr 2010
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Biodiesel-novel energy source with minimum CO2 emission

Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment

Rapid growth in population coupled with industrial and technological developments is leading towards the depletion of limited fossil fuel resources of the world. Imperative concerns related to energy and climate change due to CO2 emission requires the large scale substitution of petroleum based...

01 Apr 2010
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Bryce Canyon Hoodoos

Thesis - 1 pages - Ecology & environment

Hoodoos are defined as tall rock formations that have “totem-pole shaped bodies”, meaning they have thick and thin widths in the same formation (Bryce Canyon National Park, para 13). Height varies from one hoodoo to another, as they can be as small as a person or tower as tall as ten...

24 Feb 2010
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Ecological census lab report

Thesis - 3 pages - Ecology & environment

This lab involved field work in Hammond Woods, Newton, MA. Here, we observed trees in two sites: an exterior and interior site. These two sites possessed different distributions of trees and their species. The exterior, or edge site, consisted of four different species of plants: the White Pine...

24 Feb 2010
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Avian niche lab report

Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment

Surrounding the Ecology subject, we were studying an ecological habitat and the animals that make it up. Their behavior and habitat preference is what most closely relates to this lab. The object of this lab was to attempt to draw connections between habitat preferences (or lack thereof), any...

24 Feb 2010
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How climate change can be reframed as a carbon cycle management challenge

Thesis - 1 pages - Ecology & environment

The planet Earth's climate change has been given a considerable degree of attention by the human population lately. Detailed climate change patters, predictions and fact get unleashed every second of the day. Some aspects that can be closely analyzed when drawing conclusions on climatology trends...

28 Dec 2009
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Historical development of coal and nuclear energy in China

Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment

China is today the world's largest coal producer and consumer in the world. In 2006, the raw coal output amounted to 2.32 billion tones and installed coal fired power capacity reached 622 GWe (National Bureau of Statistics of China, 2007). Chinese dependence on coal for energy and electricity...

11 Aug 2009
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The rainforests: Deforestation and conservation

Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment

Deforestation is a very real and very serious problem which we are being faced with around the world. Unfortunately, environmental issues are often put on the back burner in our government's policies. Although the destruction of our environment has been a pressing concern for many years, this...

11 Aug 2009
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Coal in the North American Rocky Mountains: A mined resource

Thesis - 2 pages - Ecology & environment

Coal was formed millions of years ago in the cretaceous and tertiary periods, in swamps where ancient plants decomposed and filled swamps with bark, leaves and stems. In oxygenated, moving water, the plants were completely broken down by bacteria, but in stagnant water only certain chemical...

30 Jul 2009
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The role of multinationals and the environment

Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment

A traditional corporation that operates within the bounds of a sovereign area is required to comply with the legal and social institutions of that particular area. In the case of multinational corporations however, the rules are slightly different. This is, in part, because the same economic and...

29 Jul 2009
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The environmental impact of aquaculture operations

Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment

Human cultivation has produced habitats specialized for artificially spawning and nurturing aquatic animals and plants in fresh and marine waters. By assisting to meet the market demand for seafood consumption, aqua cultural operations have yielded clear and significant financial advantages,...

03 Jul 2009
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Fossil fuels or nuclear energy: Which is more eco-friendly?

Thesis - 8 pages - Ecology & environment

Human populations are growing at the fastest rates ever, and with this boom in population and standards of living, electricity consumption is growing. In 2007, there were 3891.7 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity used, which is a 1000 billion kilowatt-hours or a 37.17% increase in use compared...

03 Jul 2009
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The debate on global warming

Thesis - 6 pages - Ecology & environment

It seems like every night in the news for the past several years a similar story is being reported. All these stories, of course, have something to do with the issue of global warming. Global warming is a potentially dangerous problem for all people of the Earth, but is it real? Al Gore in his...

16 Jun 2009
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Earth: The sphere

Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment

Although earth looks very simple it is a complex planet, which is constructed out of three things: air, land and water. Air as we know is also called atmosphere that took 4.5 billions years to create as it is now and consisted of deadly gases in early years. It was created by erupting volcanoes,...

16 Jun 2009
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From cell phones to MP3 players: How rechargeable lithium-ion batteries affect the environment

Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment

Lithium-ion batteries one the most popular types of batteries used today. They are lightweight, have a high-energy density, and are less toxic to the environment than any other battery (Jensen et al. 1999). However, they still offer some undesirable effects to the environment. When not recycled...

08 Jun 2009
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Non conventional energy sources: Future necessity

Thesis - 6 pages - Ecology & environment

Energy is the primary and most universal measure of all kinds of work by human beings and nature. Energy is also defined as the ability or the capacity to do work. We use energy to do work and make all movements. When we eat, our body transforms the food into energy to do work. When we run or...

07 Jun 2009
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Clean water resource challenge

Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment

Water is the main source of life and covers three fourths of all the land on earth. There lives millions of plants and small animals in the oceans, from witch billions of people depend on fish. Some nations also get fresh water from ocean water, that?s why ocean pollution is a dangerous threat....