Landslide in a Village The rainstorm was over‚ I dashed out from the house to free myself. Spending hours in the house really made me feel bored rigid (extremely bored). I needed fresh air and so I went for a ride in the neighbourhood of Bukit Katil. I enjoyed cycling along the roads that ran parallel with rows of tall trees. The atmosphere around me was refreshingly cool. In the midst of admiring view‚ I caught the sight of a house that was partly buried in the mud. I halted (stop)
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HOW IT AFFECTS OKRIKA. Introduction The Niger Delta is located in Southern Nigeria and is Africa’s largest delta‚ covering about 70‚000 square kilometers‚ and with about one-third of it made up of wetlands‚ and the third largest world mangrove forests. The Niger Delta is unique in Nigeria because it is the home of Nigeria’s oil industry‚ with its attendant environmental hazards such as water‚ land‚ air pollution‚ etc. Human activities and those of oil exploration and exploitation raise a number
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order for the circulation to continues‚ take one piece out and disasters follows. According to the National Wildlife Federation‚ climate change would have dire consequences for the state of New Hampshire. Forests are likely to shift from conifer and mixed forests to temperate deciduous forests‚ and species such as the sugar maple‚ of importance to hundreds of maple syrup producers‚ could disappear you may not surfer the consequence but that doesn’t mean that some else wasn’t affect by those action
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The Rainforest Ecosystem “In an average year in a tropical rain forest‚ the climate is very humid because of all the rainfall‚ which amounts to about 250 cm per year” ("Discover The Rainforest "‚ 2011). The rain forest has large amounts of rain because it is very hot and wet. Tropical rainforests are defined by rainfall. They would not survive without it. Not all rain forests have tropical sunny weather. “Subtropical rainforests that lay outside of the tropics have seasonal
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irregularly shaped. The fruits are a small capsule‚ packed closely together to form a fleshy‚ yellow and variety of colours containing approximately 8000 seeds (Ivy‚ 2011). The seeds are considered mature when the fruit has changed colour to dark brown. In forest plantation‚ human will provide a favourable condition for the seed to make sure the seed germinate and grow. According to Joker (2000) stated that the seeds should be stored in dry‚ airtight container as this will allow the seeds to retain viability
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paper‚ and highly prized items such as palm oil from palm trees. “Deforestation in Amazon Basin is destroying the habitat and endangers a multitude of plant and animal species indigenous to the area.” Deforestation is not only the clearing of forests but is also a large factor of climate change. When trees are cut down they’re releasing carbon dioxide
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only the destruction of the world around us‚ but also a systematic destruction of the universe inside ourselves. Man has been destroying trees‚ forests‚ the birds and the bees‚ and on a completely different level‚ he has been destroying himself in terms of his mind‚ body and soul. forest is asking for help in desperation. For last few decades‚ the forest areas have been reduced to 50 percent because of human deforestation. Green forestland of the Earth can be compared to the lungs of human. How healthy
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Another Place‚ Another Time Owen‚ an adventurous little boy‚ eyed the bottle with a face of youthful curiosity. It was a translucent bottle made of orange glass with small round pills inside. He had never seen them before in his life and there was no label to explain what they would do‚ only four simple yet confounding words written in black marker that instructed him to “stay for a while.” After several minutes of debating‚ he let his curiosity take the best of him. He glanced around the rustically
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the industries in Canada‚ I think that the forestry industry is the most impacted by climate change. Climate change is affecting British Columbia severely because of the mountain pine beetle. The mountain pine beetle is a bug that is native to the forests of western North America from Mexico to British Columbia. It is a very small (5mm) black bug that is very hard to identify. The mountain pine beetle is responsible for destroying the trees that are harvested by the forestry industries by blocking
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DEFORESTATION 1. OVERVIEW Forests cover 31% of the land area on our planet. They produce vital oxygen and provide homes for people and wildlife. Many of the world’s most threatened and endangered animals live in forests‚ and 1.6 billion people rely on benefits forests offer‚ including food‚ fresh water‚ clothing‚ traditional medicine and shelter. But forests around the world are under threat from deforestation‚ jeopardizing these benefits. Deforestation comes in many forms‚ including fires
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