Earth Day Founded in 1970 as a day of education about environmental issues‚ Earth Day is now a globally celebrated holiday that is sometimes extended into Earth Week‚ a full seven days of events focused on green awareness. The brainchild of Senator Gaylord Nelson and inspired by the antiwar protests of the late 1960s‚ Earth Day was originally aimed at creating a mass environmental movement. It began as a "national teach-in on the environment" and was held on April 22 to maximize the number of
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Legalizing Rare Earth Industry in Malaysia Rare earth minerals‚ to be defined in a simple way‚ are 17 elements located on the periodic table and essential to the production of high-tech gadgets such as smart-phones‚ flat screen televisions‚ catalytic converters‚ low-energy light bulbs‚ hybrid cars‚ wind turbines‚ and laser devices just to name a few. Lynas‚ an Australia rare earth company‚ was the first to bring rare earth production into the industrial estate of Gebang near Kuantan‚ east
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MINERALS 5 CHARACTERISTICS OF A MINERAL: 1)Naturally Occuring; 2) Be a colid; 3) Have an orderly crystalline structure; 4) have a definite chemical composition; 5) generally be inorganic Which are not classified as Minierals & Why: Gold‚ Water‚ Synthetic Diamonds‚ Ice & Wood: Gold-YES – naturally occurring; Synthetic Diamond: NO – Manmade; Water: NO – liquid state‚ only a solid material can be considered a mineral – in it’s naturally occurring ice state it is a solid and therefore a mineral;
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Magnificent Earth In the solar system‚ the earth‚ was made to work properly‚ and in addition‚ to have the ability to allow humans to inhabit on it. Being the only planet that humans are able to live on‚ God have designed and made the magnificent earth genuinely. First‚ there’s the protected atmosphere that’s poisonous in every way‚ but gratefully placed up in the sky‚ ten miles above the surface‚ made from the significant element— oxygen‚ lacking elsewhere in the solar system. Secondly‚ the earth is tilted
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The Fox and the Crow A Fox once saw a Crow fly off with a piece of cheese in its beak and settle on a branch of a tree. "That’s for me‚ as I am a Fox‚" said Master Reynard‚ and he walked up to the foot of the tree. "Good-day‚ Mistress Crow‚" he cried. "How well you are looking to-day: how glossy your feathers; how bright your eye. I feel sure your voice must surpass that of other birds‚ just as your figure does; let me hear but one song from you that I may greet you as the Queen of Birds." The
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160 Countries Celebrated the Earth Hour As the clocks ticked 8:30 pm at their local time‚ people from 160 countries celebrated the Earth Hour. An Earth Hour which is celebrated to remind us that we all share the same planet we live in and we have the same responsibility for how well we live in it. Earth Hour is a global initiative conceptualized and supported by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and held towards the end of March annually‚ encouraging households and businesses to turn off their
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"BRUCE LEE’S TOUGHEST FIGHT" by Michael Dorgan (from Official Karate‚ July 1980) Considering the skill of the opponents and the complete absence of referees‚ rules‚ and safety equipment‚ it was one hell of a fight that took place that day in December. It may have been the most savagely elegant exhibition of unarmed combat of the century. Yet‚ at a time when top fighters tend to display their skills only in huge closed-circuited arenas‚ this battle was fought in virtual secrecy behind locked
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Material: Realms of the Earth Astro-physicists and scientists believe that there could be quite a few planets in the Universe similar to our planet Earth. There is also a probable chance that some form of life prevails and sustains in one of such planet. However‚ so far as we presently know‚ the Earth is the only planet which supports life which makes it a very unique planet. It is therefore imperative (very important and necessary) for us to understand the spheres of the Earth as the spheres play a
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If the planet earth continues on the path that it is headed for‚ it is predicted that between 2020 and 2029 that we will reach our maximum carrying capability for humans. In 1960 the human population was roughly 3 billion‚ since then it has more then doubled to 6.8 billion and is still rapidly growing. Humans add 1.5 million people to this earth every week. There are 4 main causes for the overpopulation of earth; decline in death rate‚ increase in birth rate‚ migration and lack of education.
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rock some 2700 kilometers thick that accounts for the bulk of the Earth. The crust is primarily made of granite and basalt while the mantle beneath is made of peridotite. More about all that below. How We Know the Earth Has a Crust Just a century ago‚ we didn’t know the Earth has a crust. Until the 1900s all we knew was that our planet wobbles in relation to the sky as if it had a large‚ dense core. Astronomical observations told us so. Then along came seismology‚ which brought us a new type of evidence
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