hurricane Katrina that hit the southern east coast in 2005. A hurricane is a tropical cyclone that is rotating low pressure system that has organized thunder storms with no front boundary separating two air masses of different densities. Tropical cyclones with sustained surface winds of less than 39 miles per hour are called tropical depressions. Those with maximum sustained winds of 39 miles per hour are called tropical storms. When the storms maximum sustained winds reach 74 miles per hour, it…
Weather Disasters Bryce Tretter Earth Science: FALL16-A-8-GEO101-2 Sunday, August 21, 2016 Hurricanes and tornadoes have been occurring time to time causing massive havoc and destruction of property along their path. In this paper we are going to talk about one hurricane that occurred recently and caused a lot of damage, hurricane KATRINA. Hurricane Katrina was the third deadliest hurricane of all time to have ever hit the United States of America. The hurricane Katrina originated…
Weather Disasters Weather disasters happen because weather conditions change, this brings unusual weather results, which can lead to the unexpected or demand emergency actions. Furthermore, these weather conditions can easily turn into weather disasters, which by history, can cause major damage in largely populated areas. Examples of such weather or climate changes come in forms of floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes or tsunamis, which can all cause disasters. With that in mind, disasters…
Forests are essential places for therapeutic plants to develop. In the long run these can be utilized as a part of medicinal research. Forest degradation has enormously reduced the accessibility of therapeutic plant species in the Brazilian Amazon. As of today, 25% of Western pharmaceuticals are derived from rainforest materials, yet just 1% of plants of the Amazon have so far been tried. Currently, over 120 drugs come from plant-derived sources. Of the 3000 plants identified by the US National…
Deeper Than an Advertisement For hundreds of years, the business of deforestation has been booming. At the same time, it has catastrophic effects on the environment. According to conserve-energy-future.com, since approximately one and a half acres of forests and jungles are being chopped down every second, it is estimated we will have no forests left within the next hundred years or so. As a result of having our forests die, our wildlife population dies alongside with it. The website also…
3.6. Root causes in the Bourbon Dolphin accident The critical events in the Bourbon Dolphin accident are identified with the help of reviewing the official report of Bourbon dolphin accident (2008) and experts opinions. These are initial heel angle and drift of vessel. 3.6.1. Root causes in vessel capsizing The stability of an AHV during anchor deployment or recovery is a complex subject. The stability is primarily dependent on vessel’s design, environmental conditions and forces acting on it.…
Hurricanes are benefitting from the effects of climate change. Humans should be concerned about how climate change intensifies natural disasters, more specifically hurricanes, for it affects our lives and the environment. Places susceptible to hurricanes, such as the Gulf of Mexico and Eastern Pacific Ocean, will be hit by more intense storms in the future if we are not mindful of how to slow down climate change. Hurricanes are formed when the moist air from the surface of oceans rise and…
The purpose of this article was to examine the role climate change played in the multiple natural disasters that occurred this season. Amanda Paulson, a Staff writer at the Christian Science Monitor, wrote the article Fire and floods: Did climate play a role in this fall's disaster? on October 13, 2017. Paulson points out climate scientists agree the warming of our climate has set the conditioning to warrant the abrupt climate changes and all the extreme events, we’ve seen lately. Scientists…
Tropical Fruits Tropical fruit is any type of fruit produced in tree that is native to the tropics. The tropics are usually as the region and area of the globe that is between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. Tropical region has unique environmental conditions and therefore creates a habitat that is usually for diverse species of fauna and flora. Many tropical fruits are mostly used and consumed by humans, and certain fruits are widely known where its demands are high. (Site) There…
Katrina V. Harvey Hurricane Katrina and Harvey were very different yet alike, Including their: category, location, time and effects. Hurricanes can be very destructive or hardly do anything and be brushed off. Katrina and Harvey were destructive hurricanes and will be documented in history as examples of what not to do in preparation for hurricanes. Hurricanes are very unpredictable but they all almost end the same way, being very destructive. The two Hurricanes are very alike in many ways yet…