Earth Summit 1992 The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)‚ also known as the Rio Summit‚ Rio Conference‚ Earth Summit (Portuguese: Eco ’92) was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 June to 14 June 1992. In 2012‚ the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development was also held in Rio‚ and is also commonly called Rio+20 or Rio Earth Summit 2012. was held June 20-22nd. Overview 172 governments participated‚ with 108 sending their
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Planet Earth contains three compositional layers- CORE‚ MENTLE & CRUST. Core: At the centre is the densest of the three layers‚ the core. The core is a spherical mass‚ composed largely on metallic iron‚ with lesser amount of nickel and other elements. Mantle: The thick shell of dense‚ rocky matter that surrounds the core is mantle. The mantle is less dense than the core but denser than the outer most layer‚ the crust. Crust: Above the mantle lies the thinnest and outermost layer‚ the crust
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telling was central to their traditions. One story found in every culture is a creation story or how man came to be on earth. In the Iroquois story ‚“The World on The Turtle’s Back”‚ sky woman falls from the sky world and is saved by the creatures of the sea‚ specially a sea turtle. As sky woman fell she grabbed some roots from the sacred tree‚ she would plant them on the back of the turtle. The Lakota story‚“How the World Came to Be”‚ on the other hand begins with a flood caused by the water monster.
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Report on the Religious Life of Planet Earth Religion is relative to what a person regards to as holy‚ sacred‚ absolute‚ spiritual‚ divine‚ or worthy of worship; it consists of the way people deal with their ultimate concerns about their lives and their fate after death. On Earth there are seven distinguished dimensions of religion‚ which include ritual‚ narrative and mythic‚ experimental and emotional‚ social and institutional‚ ethical and legal‚ doctrinal and philosophical‚ and material Religion
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animals changed also. Holocene sediments contain remnants of more recent plants and animals‚ so it’s pretty easy to differentiate geologically between these two epics. Now there is growing evidence that the presence of humans has altered the earth so much that a new epic of geologic history has begun – the Anthropocene epic‚ a new human-influenced epic. This idea that we’ve entered a new Anthropocene epic was first proposed in 2002. The idea is that around the year 1800 CE the human population
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Nature The life of Human beings originated on the planet Earth .The “Mother Earth” is calling us for her protection. People have become selfish and they are killing the beautiful forests‚ damming the rivers and making more concrete walls without even realizing that by doing these activities‚ they are giving invitation to the termination of their own existence. The plants and mammals are like us-living things. The biggest challenge that our earth is facing today is ‘global warming’‚ the glaciers are
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change which has created the face of the Earth‚ with all its rugged and Fascinating variety usually happens too slowly to be noticed. But occasionally it is rapid and Violent. Volcanoes disgorge molten lava‚ earthquakes rip open the landscape‚ landslides‚ carry away Whole mountainsides. Then human beings become aware of the awesome forces that are shaping Their planet. These forces are fuelled by three powerful sources of energy - heat from within the Earth‚ heat from the Sun‚ and the force of gravity
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Plate Tectonics The forces that shape the earth begin beneath the lithosphere. Rock in the asthenosphere is hot enough to flow slowly. Heated rock rises‚ moves up toward the lithosphere‚ cools and circulates downward. Riding above this circulation system are the tectonic plates‚ enormous moving pieces of the earth’s lithosphere. [pic] Plate Movement Tectonic Plates move in four different ways. When tectonic plates come into contact‚ changes on the earth’s surface occur. 1. Diveregnt Boundary-
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carbon dioxide in atmosphere‚ completing the cycle .Greenhouse effect is a natural process which made life on Earth feasible. The temperature of Earth’s atmosphere is regulated by a process in which the quantity of energy Earth gets from the Sun is poised by the amount returned back into space. Greenhouse gases in atmosphere let the energy in and prevent it from escaping‚ directing it back to Earth’s surface . By the greenhouse effect‚ in the discussions of the global warming and other environmental
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What is Earth Science? Earth Science - The study of the Earth and its neighbors in space. It is an exciting science with many interesting and practical applications. Some Earth scientists use their knowledge of the Earth to locate and develop energy and mineral resources. Others study the impact of human activity on Earth’s environment and design methods to protect the planet. Some use their knowledge about Earth processes such as volcanoes‚ earthquakes and hurricanes to plan communities that will
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