to the area than its breathtaking views. The Lake Tahoe Basin is home to many species that contribute to its ecology. Species interaction with biological communities and environment affect the ecosystem greatly because of species dependency of the environment and its resources. This makes it especially difficult with the Lake Tahoe Basin in crisis. The ecosystem faces low water levels‚ and constant threats of forest fires. The Lake Tahoe Basin is a national treasure that is cherished by many Americans
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Introduction The Brunette Basin Watershed is a 73 square kilometre watershed that stretches into several municipalities in the Lower Mainland‚ including portions of Vancouver‚ Burnaby‚ New Westminster‚ Coquitlam and Port Moody (Greater Vancouver Regional District [GVRD]‚ 2001a; see appendix A). This watershed is centralized within a highly developed urban area‚ meaning that humans and the natural environment interact on a regular basis. However‚ the impact of humans on this watershed has degraded
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This study utilizes thirty-four intersecting‚ multi-channel regional 2D seismic lines from the Offshore Sirte Basin‚ Libya‚ to assess the structure and stratigraphy from the Miocene to the Quaternary. The structural regime has been reviewed in relation to regional tectonic events in the Western Mediterranean. The structural style of the study area is characterized by normal faults with a variation in throw direction and fault-related folds. The major structural trend is NW-SE trending‚ with some
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FOREST A forest‚ also referred to as a wood or the woods‚ is an area with a high density of trees. As with cities‚ depending on various cultural definitions‚ what is considered a forest may vary significantly in size and have different classifications according to how and of what the forest is compose. These plant communities cover approximately 9.4 percent of the Earth’s surface (or 30 percent of total land area)‚ though they once covered much more (about 50 percent of total land area)‚ in many
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Outline: Introduction: Lebanese Crafts reflect the great worksmanship of the Lebanese people and the details‚ skill and hard work of the artisans and craftsmen involved in this field. Par1: The methodes were inherited from generation to generation. Par2: Different regions specialize in various handicrafts. Par3:Soap making. Par4:Salt making. Par5:Wood carving. Conclusion: Lebanon has quite a collection of beautiful and breathtaking crafts due to many centuries of experience. Most was inherited
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million hectares of the original 1.5 to 1.6 billion hectares that once covered the planet have fallen. The forest loss is already acute in Southeast Asia‚ the second of the world’s great biodiversity hot spots. Much of what remains is in the Amazon basin‚ where the Amazon Rainforest covered more than 600 million hectares. The forests are being destroyed at an accelerating pace tracking the rapid pace of human population growth. Unless significant measures are taken on a worldwide basis to preserve
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What is TK? Traditional Knowledge (TK) or Indigenous Knowledge (IK) or Traditional Environmental Knowledge (TEK) and local knowledge E is defined as knowledge and values which have been acquired through experience‚ observation‚ from the land or from spiritual teachings‚ and handed down from one generation to another What Does TK Include? Traditional knowledge includes types of knowledge related to various categories like Knowledge of plants and animals and their properties Minerals and soils
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Eden Marley Professor Eze Energy and the Environment 4/December/2012 Deforestation in the Amazon Deforestation‚ the destruction of natural rain forests‚ has been a major problem in the world today; caused primarily by human activities for development and population expansion. One of the main forests that have been affected is the Amazon Rainforest in South America. The main causes of deforestation in the Amazon are cattle ranching‚ subsistence and commercial agriculture‚ infrastructure‚
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Danny Hernandez Dr. Katy Koch Writing 101: Research Paper 11 March 2010 Amazon Deforestation The Amazon rainforest the largest tropical area in the world‚ a vast and humid area where thousands of species of mammals‚ fish and insects have been unidentified by human; thus being the largest rainforest in the world‚ it is also the largest area of deforestation where football fields after fields are taken down a minute. The Amazon Deforestation being a growing issue amongst society in this generation
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to the huge territories in the Congo River basin was considered impossible due to the impenetrable forests and the impassable rapids of the river itself‚ which served as a barrier to European exploitation. The adventurer and journalist Henry Morton Stanley gained the interest and support of the Belgian King Leopold II for his expeditions into the Congo basin ‘to prove that the Congo natives were susceptible of civilization and that the Congo basin was rich enough to repay exploitation’. In
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