Seedling

Cassava has the potential to reduce rural and urban poverty, increase farm incomes and also help to close the food gap. Family labour, land, a hoe and machete can be used to produce cassava, making it an attractive and low-risk crop for poor farmers. Also, cassava is available to low-income rural households in the form of simple food products (for example, dried roots and leaves) which are significantly cheaper than grains such as rice, maize and wheat. Similarly, urban households in many parts…

Threats Habitat Destruction Cattle grazing on any emerging seedlings and prevent regeneration of the forest, and their hooves loosen the thin mountain soil. More than half of the natural forest vegetation has been destroyed or disturbed so badly that it no longer provides suitable panda habitat and food sources. Roads…

The Galapagos Islands are located 727 miles straight west of the country of Ecuador. They were discovered accidentally by Tomas de Berlanga, the first Bishop of Panama. He drifted off course and ended up there while travelling from Panama to Peru. He was not overly impressed with what he found due to the lack of fresh water and their inability to sustain their stay. There was not much interest in the Islands for many years, until, however, Charles Darwin found the “Mystery of Mysteries,” the…

The Martian film was released in 2015 but first was a book written by Andrew Weir and later on directed by Ribley Scott “one of the most ambitious and successful directors of our time” (Chiarella.) Scott has directed twenty-two commercial films since 1977 and “adds a new dimension to this legacy: Science, frequent backdrop to the stories he tells, becomes a main character” in The Martian (Chiarella.) Astronaut Mark Watney played by Matt Damon is on Mars assumed dead by his NASA crew, after a…

“Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to listen to a full album on your iPod. Recycling 100 cans could light your bedroom for two whole weeks.” (DoSomething.org) Recycling is an important job that needs to be taken seriously in order to preserve the planet. Using recycled paper means using that many less trees and destroy less of the rainforest. Oregon is a great example for reducing, reusing, recycling, and replanting and if more states followed it would save our environment for years…

12 hours. For the control group, seeds were treated with sterilized water as a mock inoculation. Three inoculated seeds were sown in each cylindrical shape pot having 6 inch diameter and were thinned to one plant after one week of germination of seedlings. Each pot contained ~2 kg of the sterilized growth media…

“Switchgrass is a very native perennial warm season grass with the ability to produce moderate to high biomass yields on marginal lands. These characters have resulted in the use of switchgrass in several Bioenergy conversion processes, including cellulosic ethanol production, biogas, and direct combustion for thermal energy applications.” (Carter, Jimmy 1) Switchgrass produces cellulose, when cellulose is broken down and ferment it, then becomes cellulosic ethanol which can be used to fuel…

Our Being in the Natural World David Attenborough, an English Naturalist, once wrote, “It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.” The beauty of nature is that of a timeless art piece. Mother nature has brushed Earth with vibrant skies, cascading mountains, roaring rivers, and a sea capable of easing the…

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrative voice is an extremely influential factor in developing many themes in addition to the apparent theme of insanity. Both “The Yellow Wallpaper” and John Steinbeck 's short story "The Chrysanthemums” explore two common themes of identity and gender inequality. Both short stories are set in a time where few women could gain equality in a male-dominated society. In “The Chrysanthemums”, Steinbeck portrays this struggle for equality…

These plants only receive sunflecks, but it is believed that these provide up to 60% of the daily carbon gain by seedlings like Euphorbia forbesii and Claoxylon sandwicense. For photosynthesis to be at its optimum there should be on average of 16 hours of sunlight and 8 hours of darkness. The main energy for photosynthesis comes from the light from the sun, this…