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    As our population is growing‚ when we are taking it for granted to ask the nature for resource we want‚ environmental protection is becoming more and more important and necessary. Water protection is especially urgent now. We can see the water pollution is becoming worse. In this essay‚ I am going to talk about the recent situation of the water pollution‚ the bad effects of it and some ways help to solve the problem as well. As we know‚ China is a big country as well as a developing country. Developing

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    Managing Environmental Issues SCI/362 June 16‚ 2013 Colney and Pitts is a pharmaceutical company that is located in California. Colney and Pitts are planning to set up a manufacturing plant near the Aberdares mountain range in the eastern highlands of Kenya. Their main purpose is to use this facility to manufacture medications for prostate cancer. Located in the Aberdares Mountain is a native tribe called The Kikuyu. After much research and extensive surveying of the area‚ it was

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    United States has prided itself for many years on the health care system which ranks highly in treatments of many diseases‚ cancers‚ and conditions. However‚ problems are emerging with the ever expanding healthcare sector and the industry cannot keep up. At the beginning of this year‚ CNN chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta wrote about the nine largest health issues in the United States. One of the topics was the simple lack of Doctors and healthcare professionals in the United States. This

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    Hydraulic fracturing is a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth’s surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil. How the process works: The process includes steps to protect water supplies. To ensure that neither the fluid that will eventually be pumped through the well‚ nor the oil or gas that will eventually be collected‚ enters the water supply‚ steel surface or intermediate casings are inserted

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    resources aso sufer as farmer get water from there. If they would use water from rivers before using the underground water‚ the aquifers would last longer. Canada could find a way to desalinate water so we don’t use all the clean water resources. One big issue on land is the forests. People need trees for many things‚ so they cut them‚ and the trees are slowly desapearing. there are several ways to preserve forests‚ and some of them are already being implemented. The programs of reforestation work replanting

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    County. Seattle Public Utilities. (2013). Retrieved from http://www.seattle.gov/util/EnvironmentConservation/Education/CedarRiverWatershed/CedarRiverBiodiversity/index.htm   What is its importance on the environment? Many people may support environmental causes to help preserve the “beauty” of Nature. However‚ that is in a strange way‚ not really a justifiable excuse

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    The main features of England’s ecosystem. England’s ecosystem is not very diverse‚ this is similar to all islands around the world‚ being and island it is unlikely that the ecosystem will change mainly because of the area. Islands usually also have their own specific and unique biome‚ England is no exception though it does share the Island with Wales and Scotland as well. Though England’s ecosystem and biome are unique they are very similar to that of near by countries. Frances northern coast (Normandy)

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    The environmental problem that is significant in my city would be the water having chemicals in it that causes different parts of town to be on a boil water alert quite often. Due to industrial facilities‚ large amounts of toxic chemicals and other pollutants are being released into our water. This causes problems for the fish in the ocean and it contaminated our drinking water. This can also cause health problems for the persons consuming the water and even for those swimming in it. In order for

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    many problems. People’s odds getting skin cancer was the big issue. Because of less atmospheric ozone‚ more UV light was reaching people’s skin that causes skin cells to be damaged. That requires more cell reproduction which gives more room for the cell’s DNA to mutate into cancer. Another issue is less heat and radiation is bounced of by the ozone‚ which can lead to hotter temperatures throughout the planet. Later in 1978‚ the United States banned the use of aerosol‚ and so did many other

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    THE STATE AND STATE-BUILDING Bob Jessop The state has been studied from many perspectives but no single theory can fully capture and explain its complexities. States and the interstate system provide a moving target because of their complex developmental logics and because there are continuing attempts to transform them. Moreover‚ despite tendencies to reify the state and treat it as standing outside and above society‚ there can be no adequate theory of the state without a wider theory of society

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