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The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest maritime operation of WWII, lasting 6 years, spanning from the declaration of war on the 3rd September 1939 until the Germans eventually surrendered in 1945 . The German Navy was completely outclassed and comprehensively outnumbered by the Royal Navy and its allies, therefore a conventional battle would not be sustainable. The German Navy therefore resorted to an unconventional tactic for the time by deploying packs of hunter submarines into the…

started worldwide climate change projects. One such example is the HSBC financed wind turbines in Jilin province in China. In 2010, HSBC Global Banking Markets structured this project to wind farm on agricultural land which will save more than 100,000, tonnes of carbon dioxide per year for next twenty years. Our HSBC Water Programme is a five year $100 million partnership with three global NGOs (Earthwatch, WaterAid and WWF) which will help us understand the water problem globally by studying…

only produces helium which can then be re-used for other factories. The 100kg of Deutrium and 3 tons of natural Lithium needed per year will generate around 7 billion kWh. In comparison a coal-fired power plant needs 1.5 million tonnes of fuel and produces 4-5 million tonnes of CO2 (Fusion for Energy). The only issue is that due to it not being operational until hopefully the middle of the century in terms of climate change this is not soon…

iron and casting business.” MISSION To be cost effective, quality pig iron producer and achieve it by 2018-19  Production of 4,00,000 tonnes per annum  Sales of INR 2000 crores per annum  Coke consumption of <600 Kg per tones of liquid metal  Power cost Rs. 1200 crore per annum To be preferred partner in casting business by 2018  Production of 1,50,000 tonnes per annum  Sales of INR 1200 crore per…

Mystery Creek Resources, Inc. (MCRI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fire River Gold Corporation, proposes to continue to operate, reclaim, and close an underground precious metal mine and associated mill known as the Nixon Fork Mine Project (Project). The Project is located approximately 32 miles northeast of McGrath and eight miles north of Medfra in west-central Alaska (Figure 1; see Appendix A for report figures). The Project is not connected with the Alaska road system; therefore site access…

Canada’s “national meal” is a form of pasta. Wheat is Canada’s biggest export earner of all agricultural products and lands in the top five wheat exporters in the world. According to Agriculture Canada (2017), In 2017 Canada produced over 27 million tonnes of wheat. Wheat…

On June 28, 1919, the allied powers and Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles following WWI which required Germany to “accept the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage” and making them pay the equivalent of $442 billion USD today. Germany’s economy plummeted putting them in a great depression. So what did Germany do to have to accept responsibility for WWI? Compared to the other world powers involved, nothing. Although Germany diplomacy ultimately…

There were several kinds of giant sloths in South America in the Pleistocene era around 500,000 years ago, and living alongside them were giant armadillos like the glyptodonts. They were as big as rhinoceroses, with armour-plating fitted so tightly together that they looked like huge tortoises. All of these giants were edentata, an order of animals which has evolved into today’s sloths, armadillos and anteaters of South America. Edentata literally means without teeth. The anteaters, which catch…

In a quiet corner of Southeast Asia, bordering Thailand, Vietnam and Laos, is the small country of Cambodia. The escalating Vietnam war drew Cambodia into years of turmoil. After 7 years of struggle, Cambodia was celebrating the end of war and the promise of a fresh start. Their celebrations lasted less than a day. On April 17th, 1975, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, invaded Cambodia’s capital city of Phnom Penh, and citizens were forced into the countryside. This marked the start of one of the…

The Oil Mallee Tree Program Agroforestry Agroforestry is incorporating trees into agricultural farms and is strategy of revegetation of the Department of Parks and Wildlife. This addresses the impact for the loss of habitat which results in loss of biodiversity, soil erosion and degradation and salinity problems in the wheatbelt. The Mallee trees, multi-stemmed trees, were chosen due to their growth in low-rainfall areas and they can help the biodiversity, water and soil. These trees do not…