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    History of Aspirin

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    History Of Aspirin Aspirin is one of the most commonly used drugs in the world.. For centuries people throughout the world. Aspirin was discovered about 3500 years ago. A collection of 877 medicinal recipes‚ The Ebers papyrus‚ before Christ‚ from the middle of the second millennium had been bought during the last century from an Egyptian street vendor by Georg Ebers‚ a German Egyptologist Georg. He recommended an infusion of dried myrtle leaves for rheumatic and back pain. More than a

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    The Water Cycle

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    Water is continuously being recycled in a process called the water cycle. All living things on earth need water to survive. The water cycle has no starting point and no end point. Earth’s water is always in movement and always changing forms‚ it can go from a liquid to a solid to a gas and back to a liquid. The water cycle is how we track movement of water above‚ in and on the earth. The water cycle consists of three major processes‚ condensation‚ evaporation and precipitation. Condensation is the

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    Hydraulic Fracturing

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    is pumped into these fractures to keep them ‘propped’ open after the pressures are released. The first diagram in the appendix shows what occurs in the subsurface during a typical hydraulic fracturing event. After a period of fluid recovery or groundwater extraction is when the extraction of CBM occurs. As pumping continues‚ the pressure eventually decreases so that the methane desorbs from the coal‚ flows and is extracted through the production well. The fracture created acts as a conduit in the

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    Marcella Shale

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    Demand for energy In the United States and around the world‚ demand for energy is growing significantly. Climate change and environmental regulations continue to push against the need for increasing energy generation. In the U.S.‚ natural gas has become a popular alternative fuel source for power plants. It is also recognized for its ability to heat homes and serve as fuel for motor vehicles. Natural gas could greatly reduce the United States reliance on oil and coal. Natural gas plants

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    water resources

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    Surface water is water in a river‚ lake or fresh water wetland. Surface water is naturally produced by precipitation and naturally lost through discharge to the oceans‚ evaporation . Sub-surface water  Sub-Surface water‚ or groundwater‚ is fresh water located in the pore space of soil and rocks. It is also water that is flowing within aquifers. Sometimes it is useful to make a distinction between sub-surface water that is closely associated with surface water and deep

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    top soil (Billings 40). This is not the end of the effects of pesticides on the environment‚ nevertheless. Some pesticides can pollute water‚ and as chemicals travel through the soil‚ the ultimately come in contact with groundwater. What does this mean for humans? Well‚ groundwater is approximately 50% or drinking water for all Americans (Lee 50). Nearly 14.1 million Americans habitually consume this infected water. Policies were proposed in the 1970s by the passage of the National Environmental Protection

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    Garbage Disposal

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    Garbage Dumping Effects Improper disposal of hazardous waste causes adverse effects on human health and the environment. The normal practices of waste disposal such as insanitary open dump‚ land filling‚ discharge in water courses‚ or open-pit burning will need modification when dealing with hazardous wastes. • Open dumping Open dumps are illegally dumped‚ abandoned piles of garbage and debris in large quantities. You can get fined if you are caught dumping at an open dump. They are used in

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    The Aral Sea

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    Disaster of Aral Sea The Aral Sea was once the fourth largest inland sea in the world. About‚ a million years ago from now the northwestern part of Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan were covered by a massive inland sea. This sea was formed when all the waters retreated from a big land; they left a broad plain that contained highly saline soil. Due to the retreating of water many ancient remains were disappeared. The only remnant that remained was a big inland sea which was the Aral Sea. The Aral

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    Drinking water habit

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    negative effects to the environment‚ especially the quality of the groundwater and water in rivers or lakes. Levallois et al (1998) stated that using too much chemical fertilizers in agriculture has contaminated the groundwater. The groundwater has not been safe to drink as it had been in the past. During and after

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    Pollution

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    We keep our houses clean. We take utmost care of our bedroom‚ making sure no dust rests on our polished furniture. From walls to carpets‚ everything in our house is neat and clean and perfectly maintained. Then why do we fail to keep our environment clean; maintenance of which is far more vital as compared to our home? The term pollution means addition of any substance which alters the quality of the environment. Substances which cause pollution or alter the natural quality of the air‚ water and

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