Arid

Dear, PolyMet Company Why have the mine near the boundary waters? I strongly believe that the PolyMet mines are unsafe.The mine will create an unsafe environment to humans and nature, causing pollution and water problems. If we placed the mine near the boundary waters it will lessen the amount of tourists each year. The mine would be located near the BWCA (Boundary Water Canoe Area) which is near Lake Superior. Causing a bigger risk to spill into lake superior which is some of the most…

Fifteen miles south of the world-renowned Yosemite Valley sits alone the Hetch Hetchy Valley with its water roaring. Hard to believe, but it was once recognized as the counterpart of the Yosemite Valley and grabbed the same attention for its natural beauty— cascading waterfalls, lofty mountain cliffs, and serene rivers. John Muir, an ardent advocate for the preservation of the wilderness, described the experience of visiting Hetch Hetchy to be a sheer pleasure: “it [was] a bright day in June;…

This is my paper on the desert. It is one of the harshest environments. It is empty, arid, and quiet. A bit too quiet for most people. You will die if you do not have water with you if you go hiking in the desert. If you live there though it is no big deal, because you obviously live in a settlement of some sorts. The desert is a strange place, but I love it because I live in the desert. It is like an alien world to most people. That's why some sci-fi movies have been filmed there. For example,…

Although the regolith represents an important economic resource (Wright et al., 1985; Taylor and Eggleton, 2001), it also acts as a hindrance to exploration for mineral deposits under cover (Anand, 2016; Salama et al., 2016) and geological mapping in general. The term regolith refers to all of the weathered and/or unconsolidated material from basement rock to earth surface including interbedded fresh rocks (Taylor and Eggleton, 2001). Tardy (1997) estimates that nearly one third of the area of…

Italian team unearths 800k year old Homo Erectus footprint A team of Italian researchers have possibly uncovered the oldest ever fossilized footprint left behind by modern man's early ancestor, Homo Erectus. The prints are thought to date back some 800,000 years and were unearthed in the desserts of south eastern Eritrea. “The footprints will reveal a lot about the evolution of man, because they provide vital clues as to our ancestors gait and locomotion,” Explained Alfredo Coppa, the…

Robert Kaplan and Karl Wittfogel both appropriated history and geography to their own similar contemporary political ends. Both authors primarily aim is to provide intelectual cover for American empire. Wittfogel and Kaplan both see geography as the primary former of human culture, political economy, and conflict. Kenneth Pomeranz provides one refute to the essentialists’ reading of geography in advancing an argument of divergence which includes topography and climate as two of many variables in…

moisture or rainfall that would satisfy agricultural, livestock, domestic use, among others is not fully met (Kassas, 1995). Desertification is defined by the United Nations Environment Programme or UNEP as land degradation in dry sub humid, arid, and semi-arid areas caused by various factors such as climatic variations and human impact. This definition is a revision from a 1977 definition by the United Nations Conference on Desertification that described desertification as the formation of…

and their son was killed while at work. It is about a guy who has to kill an old man and a family who were gave a Monkey’s Paw. The family was wondering where their son was and the guy has to kill the old man. The guy has to kill the old man and get arid of his body. The family was told by the soldiers that their son was killed at work and they gave the father a Monkey’s Paw for 3 wishes and were gave 200 pounds of money. The guy was stuttered because the old man would not stop moving and the…

and bald eagle, Sandhill crane, Osprey, puffin, and Sandpiper. With a mosaic of plant life, Alaska’s flora ranges from grasslands, tundra thick forests of Sitka spruce, western hemlock, red cedar, white birch, wild flowers and hardy plants, to semi-arid and tundra…

first Americans. Thirty years ago, all of these tribes were utterly destitute; they occupied arid desert land with no resources and no prospects that their grim…