Logging

Mexico City, like other megacities in Latin America, faces several major environmental problems that have not just local but regional and global implications. One of the prominent issues that plague Mexico City is the pollution of water. Therefore with the rapid population growth, insufficient sanitation, urbanization, and inefficient treatment of waste water or lack of management of the water resources, the water pollution continues to rise each year. Due to the unclean water there have been…

Born on October 31, 1930 in Rome, Italy, Michael Collins is sometimes known as a the “Forgotten Astronaut” of the Apollo 11 mission. As a child, he lived in Oklahoma, New York, Texas, Virginia, and Puerto Rico. Finally, he settled in to attend school in Washingtion D.C. He graduated from Saint Albans School in Washington D.C. and received his Bachelor of Science in 1952 from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He worked for the US Air Force flying F-86 fighter jets…

Firstly, a reason behind deforestation is logging, which can help the economy based on how much there is (Amazon). “Fortunately, deforestation can provide enough space to produce enough food for more than 10 billion people who will be hungry in the future” (17). Similarly, food is extremely important…

This is responsibility of both the government and citizens in preventing and banning illegal logging by stopping the supply and demand for illegal timber (European Forest Institute 2014). It cannot denied that this is absolutely difficult and dangerous mission so we need to have long-term and careful strategies. Canada is one of countries leading this campaign with five ways preventing illegal logging such as enacting forests laws, fining illegal wood imports and exports, etc (Natural Resources…

The Dark Side of Deforestation Did you know that 80% of the world’s known plants and animals live in forests and are steadily losing their habitats to deforestation? Deforestation happens for a number of reasons and causes biodiversity to decline. As biodiversity declines, animals are dying and relocating because their ecosystem is becoming unstable. Some of the species in forests are unidentified species, others vast webs of plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria. Deforestation causes many…

I chose my states location based off a place I think has a lot of natural beauty and also a lot of history. I broke down the questions given to me and also added in some of my own, I answered them all individually to try and illustrate the full functionality of my conceptual state and its capitol. To give a general idea of where my state is located, it is on the west coast and is the northern part of California and also includes the southern portion of Oregon. I have included a map with the…

cut down the most valuable are selected to timber, and the rest are left to the chipper. Smaller trees are usually cut down for the use of charcoal. Not all logging that occurs is legal. Illegal timber extraction is also growing problem. “The European Union is a significant importer of timber from regions where illegal and destructive logging is rampant.” (Greenpeace) The EU has made no law to stop the illegal…

through the use of hashtags. With the rise of technological advances, society has quickly embraced social media platforms, as outlets to express their opinions on almost everything from entertainment, sports, to current social and political events. Logging on to social media websites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. has become a cultural habit for most individuals, including myself. For this paper, I sought to answer basic questions about social media and it’s purpose in our public…

Hello all! In this week’s scenario, out of the four options given 3 and 4 would not be an option for me. Why go to a physician if you didn’t want to know what was going on with you? Now, this leaves me with option 1 and 2. Option 2 is not a possibility due to the type of insurance coverage I have. Therefore, option 1 is the only option left for me to use. Not only is my choice due to the fact that my insurance requires a physician’s order in order to have lab work, but eventually I will have to…

In June 2007, the Center for AUV Research participated in the AUVFEST 07 exercise conducted by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The objectives of the exercise (as far as this thesis work is concerned) were to demonstrate networked communications in a distributed autonomous vehicle system, and to demonstrate highbandwidth communications at long range using ScanEagle as a data communications relay. The experiments were conducted at Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB) where a section of the base has…