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as for the workers and communities. However, the bylaws of the NAFTA agreement exempt Mexico from having to follow United States Department of Transportation standards. The United States Department of Transportation has implemented lower carbon dioxide emissions as new United States truck standard. The Department expects a decrease of one point one billion metric tons of carbon…

Being one of the top predators in the Arctic, polar bears are exposed to very high levels of toxins and pollutants through their food. One fish may have a small amount amount of toxins in its tissue, but seals eat many fish a day and the polar bears eat the seals resulting in a high amount of toxins being consumed by the polar bears. Polar bears who have high levels of toxins and pollutants in its body have low levels of vitamin A, thyroid hormones, and antibodies. Those previously listed are…

Released in 2012, Chasing Ice follows the efforts of nature photographer, James Balog, as he documents climate change through the world's melting glaciers. The film is written by Mark Monroe and its producers include, Jeff Orlowski, Jerry Aronson, as well as, Paula DuPre Pesmen. I chose this particular documentary due to my interest in the effects of climate change throughout the world. Two filmmakers, Jeff Orlowski and Jerry Aronson, along with, one film producer combined efforts in order to…

In Notes From Underground: Florida’s Sinkhole Peril, David Owen elaborates on sinkholes in Florida. Owen discusses, among other things, examples of specific Florida sinkholes, the dangers of sinkholes, anthropogenic activities and their influence on sinkhole development, and the history of sinkholes in Florida. Overall, the article provides an overview of sinkholes in Florida and provides the reader with important information related to this topic. This review will discuss the major ideas…

Imagine a world without the east coast of the United States. Imagine the entire state of California evacuated due to severe drought conditions. Imagine continuous forest fires wiping out wildlife in the southern states. Although these disastrous events are not present in the world today, it may be heading in this direction due to the rapid increase in temperature, also known as climate change. The issue of climate change has been playing a variety of different roles throughout the world over the…

yeast both consume and hydrolyze the sucrose into glucose and fructose. The rate of sucrose hydrolysis is shown on Eq. 1 below. One mole of glucose or fructose (180 g/mol) will be fermented to two moles of ethanol (46 g/mol) and two moles of carbon dioxide (44 g/mol). The reaction pathway for the biochemical conversion of sucrose is supposed to follow the pathway shown by Figure 2.…

Seashell Lab What does the different concentration of acid do to shells? Due to earth’s increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) rates scientists have shown that it can make shells , skeletons and corals up to one-third lighter in weight. As the ocean water becomes more acidic it lowers the calcium carbonate available to aquatic animals. ‘Scientists have predicted that the increase in ocean acidification could significantly reduce the ability of these creatures to build their casings, potentially…

This article wakes up the reader’s perspective of how natural disasters can be steepened by the hubris of politicians in control; they’d rather worry about attracting growth to a city without considering the safety repercussions of its citizens. The article gives specific examples of exactly how the politicians failed the citizens. The disaster of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, and the flooding along the Mississippi River, was extremely disastrous to humans and the environment. Freudenburg says…

the pyruvates pass through break down the carbons and create 3 forms of energy in the process. They create two ATPs, two FADH 2 and 8 NADHs. Carbon dioxide is also made, and sometimes can create too much of it. After you run and you breath heavy and you can't stop for a minute or two. That is because the Kreb’s cycle continues to make carbon dioxide even after you have less oxygen. Anyways, The FADH 2 and the NADHs are transported to the…

So, The Quaternary period is characterized by several periods of glaciation. It is believed to start about 1.8 million years ago. This Time period is also known for its time of change. This period is divided into two epochs the Pleistocene and the Holocene. It is thought that the Woolly Mammoths still existed at the beginning of this period. Some environments were altered because of the several periods of glaciation and some animals and plants did survive but not all. In other words, glaciation…