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    warming ocean temperatures will affect coral reef? Help? Harm? Why? (Assume just warming effects, not acidification effects.) Give a full, well-reasoned explanation – at least 10 sentences. (4 pts) Warming Effects have been on the rise since the Industrial Revolution when humans began to start using more fossil fuels. Fossil Fuels emissions add a lot more CO2 than what I produced naturally. Today, there is so much CO2 emissions that the Earth is warming from it being trapped in the atmosphere.…

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    Persuasive By sativa white I think Japan is the greatest and most amazing culture because. They keep up with traditions and they always put so much detail into everything they do. Japan is also very clean and polite. If you go to a subway you will usually se trash somewhere and people all crowding around the door to push in to get a seat and your being pushed around and stuff like that. But in Japan people line up nice and orderly and you don’t really see trash Japan is very clean you will…

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    The ocean is a major part of our lives because not only does it supply us with water and most of our everyday needs,but because the ocean “covers 71% of the earth’s surface” (source: Oceanic Institute).The ocean is very important to earth and those living in it because without the ocean most things will be different. According to “Keep Oceans Blue” one of the examples they stated were “Our oceans also provide $21 trillion in food and other benefits yearly” meaning without the ocean earth would…

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    Dead Zone Research Paper

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    The view of the ocean since the middle of the 20th century had been one of hope and prosperity for feeding the growing human population. Many believed it to be an inexhaustible pool of food and resources, and so efforts to create newer, more efficient methods of obtaining these resources had sprung into action. Somewhere along that time and now that image changed to a giant trashcan for people to dispose of their sewage, chemicals, and garbage. Two consequences of this transition, mercury…

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    A watershed is an area of land that separates water flowing to different rivers,basins, or seas. For example the Mississippi River watershed is an enormous watershed.”Not only does water run into the streams and rivers from the surface of a watershed, but water also filters through the soil, and some of this water eventually drains into the same streams and rivers.”Watersheds affect water quality, the Earth picks up water pollution and gets rid of the pollution in the water streams and rivers as…

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    Permeable Asphalt

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    People all over the world are paying more attention to the environment today than they did just a few years ago. Issues such as climate change, water and air pollution, depletion of natural resources and wildlife conservation are being discussed and acted upon with increasing frequency. There is scarcely a product used in the construction trades that is not being scrutinized for sustainability and environmental impact. Although asphalt pavement is an environmentally friendly material,…

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    contact with organizations that could have a broad, long term impact on the community, I decided to simply pick up trash from a local park. This job wasn 't glamorous or exciting and it wasn 't going to change the way people looked at recycling and waste, but after a few thank you 's from people passing by or simply watching the ducks swim in the area I had recently collected trash from, I knew that I had made a difference in my community. For my action research project I picked up trash at…

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    If a deck coating isn’t simple to apply, you’re likely to waste your investment out of frustration. If it’s cheap, it will start to wear away after just a few summers. Scorpion has custom deck coatings that are not only simple to apply, but are also economical for the homeowner. The application requires low cost…

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    Cause Of Ocean Pollution

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    There must be a major push for us to do something about the plastic that pollutes our oceans. As of 2014, there was 311 million tons of plastic in the oceans. With so much plastic, the ratio of fish and plastic was just 5 to1. We cannot allow the amount of plastic in our oceans to rise. Still, though, there is expected to be as much as 1,124 million tons of plastic in our oceans by 2050, making the ratio nearly 1 to 1. That sort of mistreatment to the planet is unacceptable. The wildlife, health…

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    The article is about the use of plastic bags and the negative environmental effects that it had in Cordova. It articulates the measures taken to reduce the use of plastic bags. As more plastic bags are used an uneconomic use of the resources is taking place thus market failure occurs. Market failure is a situation whereby the allocation of resources by the free market is inefficient. It can be exhibited in the form of, the existence of externalities both positive and negative. An externality…

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