Main Idea: The main idea of the passage Vanishing Forest by Patricia Janes is the negative effects on things related to the boreal forest as the forest is disappearing at a quick speed. According to scientists‚ logging‚ mining‚ and oil and gas companies are yelling "timber‚" because trees are being leveled more often than the forest can sustain. Furthermore‚ North America’s boreal forest is being harvested at a rate of roughly 2.5 million acres a year. This rapid deforestation in many areas of
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The temperate forest is an area of the world that has high levels of precipitation and humidity. They contain a wide variety of deciduous trees‚ which are trees that lose their leaves in the winter. The temperatures of the temperate forests vary based on the four seasons. It is typically hot in the summer with high temperatures of 86 degrees and cold in the winter. These areas receive large amounts of precipitation in the form of rain and snow. Eastern Asia‚ Central and Western Europe‚ and the Eastern
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build farms‚ ranches and other food growing lands. Next is overpopulation. When the population elevates‚ the people will cut down more trees for lands and later develop the land into residential areas. Third one is illegal logging. Trees are cut down indiscriminately by logging companies to fulfil the demand of wood market. This does not allow the wildlife and trees to regenerate and sustain themselves thus leading to loss of wildlife. One of the effects in deforestation are soil erosion. The roots
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Many Americans have never heard of the term “Capitalocene.” This concept is an alternative to the more commonly known idea of Anthropocene‚ which is essentially a term used to describe a geological epoch in which human activities have had a significant impact on Earth’s ecosystems and geological processes. This concept fails to acknowledge the importance of capitalism in our current planetary crisis. With the Anthropocene‚ scientists also struggle to come to a conclusion on what the major turning
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ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI :: CHENNAI – 600 025 B.E / B.TECH. DEGREE EXAMINATIONS – I YEAR ANNUAL PATTERN MODEL QUESTION PAPER HS1X01 – TECHNICAL ENGLISH (Common to all Branches of Engineering and Technology) Regulation 2004 Time : Three Hours Maximum Marks :100 Answer All Questions PART A 10 X 2 =20 1. Match the words in column A with their meanings in column B: 4 x ½ = 2 A B a. abundant b. escalate c. culminate d. spectacular i. rise ii. reach its highest point iii. strikingly grand iv. plenty
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Greenpeace is an independent organization campaigning to ensure a just‚ peaceful‚ sustainable environment for future generations. It began in Canada in 1971 and today has a presence in more than 40 countries with 2.4 million supporters worldwide. Greenpeace Australia was founded in 1977 and today we have more than 75‚000 supporters. Prevent dangerous climate change by phasing out fossil fuels (oil‚ coal‚ gas) and replacing them with clean renewable energy such as solar. Use the 2000 Olympic
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Ramirez1 The Danaus plexippus or more commonly known the Monarch butterfly is probably the most famous and known specie of butterfly that exist all over the world. Its fame is due because of their beauty. Every fall‚ the people of Mexico gather around in the forest and wait for the arrive of the Monarch Butterfly to contemplate the beauty of the insect. They are also famous because they migrate farther than any other specie of butterfly. It takes approximately a month and a half to the Monarch to
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C H A P T E R 7 Site-to-Site VPN Configuration Examples A site-to-site VPN protects the network resources on your protected networks from unauthorized use by users on an unprotected network‚ such as the public Internet. The basic configuration for this type of implementation has been covered in Chapter 6‚ “Configuring IPSec and Certification Authorities.” This chapter provides examples of the following site-to-site VPN configurations: • • • • • Using Pre-Shared Keys Using PIX Firewall
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IMPACTS OF DEFORESTATION ON MALARIA IN SOUTH WEST NIGERIA: THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL‚ SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS Abstract Forest resources in Nigeria are undergoing severe exploitation pressure due to demographic growth and socio-economic development. Through the process of forest clearing‚ deforestation alters the ecology of local malaria vectors. The overall goal of this study was to seek to clarify the mechanisms linking deforestation‚ economic development and malaria epidemiology and
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prevention systems (IDPS) are primarily focused on identifying possible incidents‚ logging information about them‚ attempting to stop them‚ and reporting them to security administrators. Intrusion prevention is the process of performing intrusion detection and attempting to stop detected possible incidents. Intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) are primarily focused on identifying possible incidents‚ logging information about them‚ attempting to stop them‚ and reporting them to security
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