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    Deforestation In Amazon

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    Biodiversity: Deforestation Deforestation is a threat to biodiversity because deforestation increases the chances of animal/plant extinction. In the Amazon‚ around 17% of the forest has been lost in the last 50 years. Causes of Deforestation Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forest in order to make the land available for other uses such as… For fuel Space for housing and urbanization To create commercial items such as paper‚ furniture‚ and homes To create rare and highly priced

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    Scurvy: How Can Science Help Prevent Dietary Deficiency Diseases? Figure [ 1 ] Courtesy of Google Images An Introduction Scurvy is a disease which is caused by a deficiency of Vitamin C. A lack of vitamin C interferes with collagen synthesis which is the formation of the body ’s tissues. When the body cannot generate collagen the tissue deteriorates. This causes a range of symptoms such as: * Gum disease * Anaemia * Pains in the muscles * Pain in the joints (Scurvy: NHS)

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    Deforestation in Malaysia

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    DEFORESTATION AND ENDANGERED SPECIES IN MALAYSIA Malaysia has a diverse number of animal and plant species in its rainforests. 20% of the world’s animal species are found here. These forests cover two-thirds of the Malaysian land. It has about 250 species of reptiles‚ 150 species of snakes and a thousand species of insects. There are around 14‚500 species of flowering plants and trees. Besides the rainforests‚ Malaysia has 1‚ 425 sq km of mangroves. However‚ with the current rate of deforestation

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    We Can‚ But Should We? Chamberlain College of Nursing NR361 Information Systems in Healthcare Kathleen Fabian‚ Professor Fall B 2010 Radio frequency identification‚ also known as RFID‚ is a breakthrough in technology and could just be the next big step in surveillance. Yet‚ how far is one willing to go to be sure that all of their past history is accurate? This sounds a little like George Orwell’s 1984; a chip inserted into one’s skin‚ embedded with data that can be transferred to a reading

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    Causes of Deforestation

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    CAUSES OF DEFORESTATION Deforestation is the product of the interaction of the many environmental‚ social‚ economic‚ cultural‚ and political forces at work in any given region. The mix of these forces varies from decade to decade‚ and from country to country. As a consequence‚ generalizations are dangerous. In most cases‚ deforestation is a process that involves a competition amongst different land users for scarce resources‚ a process exacerbated by counter-productive policies and weak institutions

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    auto-immune disease- once the bacteria becomes active/the person becomes infected it can drastically decrease a person’s immunity. The main concern at the conference is that if a proper and effective treatment isn’t found for the drug resistant cases of TB and the MDR-TB cases‚ that it could increase to pandemic proportions. Without successful treatment and maintenance of TB at it’s manageable strain‚ it can potentially put over 200‚000 lives at risk of being lost‚ and billions of dollars spent

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    Deforestation In Brazil

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    the legal and fiscal policies of the Brazilian government which directly encourage deforestation of the Amazon forest. It focuses on five key aspects of government policy: - Taxes on agricultural income - Rules of land allocation - Land taxes - Tax credit schemes - Subsidized credits Furthermore‚ it the author suggests several provisions such as increased incentives for forest guards in order to curb the deforestation practices. Brazil’s income tax laws for agriculture virtually exempt it and instead

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    issued a warning to its citizens that a tropical storm would soon become a hurricane. Being only 350 miles from the populated city‚ Floridians didn’t have much to fear. At age four‚ I was one of them. But we and the residents of New Orleans‚ Louisiana and Mississippi didn’t know just how wrong we would be. Hurricane Katrina was the third deadliest hurricane in the United States history‚ claiming over a total of up to 2‚000 lives. Not only did it claim lives‚ but it claimed minds‚ skyrocketing the

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    believes that lives should be saved. Despite this‚ there would be no after care for people once they had been saved and the streets would be full of people extremely distressed. In addition‚ there would be no law and order about the streets in which can often lead to havoc‚ which is incredibly vital to avoid in severe situations like

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    is across the eight developing countries‚ Brazil‚ Peru‚ Bolivia‚ Colombia‚Ecuador‚ Guyana‚ Venezuela‚ Suriname and French Guiana‚ which have been destroyed since 1978. The Amazon have millions of species and thousands of birds and butterflies. Deforestation in the Amazon was mainly because of farmers‚ who cut down trees to produce crops for their families and local consumption. But in the 20th century‚ that began to change by industrial activities‚ agriculture and cattle ranching. The Amazon have

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