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The Deepwater Horizon Problem

and wetlands along the coasts. BPs first response to contain the oil spill was to dump about two million gallons of dispersants...

Sixteen Microorganisms and Their Impact on Human Health

This paper provides a species overview, diagnostic techniques, and recommended treatment for Staphylococcus aureus, Mycobacterium ...

Regulations and Zoning

In a paper of four pages, the authore reflects on major environmental legislation, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, a...

Genetic Diversity and Extinction

randomness of change, and then by the belief that evolution is shaped by changes in gene frequencies that are linked to concepts o...

Overview of the Endangered Species Act

CITES [section 3]; * All Federal agencies were required to undertake programs for the conservation of endangered and threatened s...

Monkey Eating Eagle of the Philippines

Noting how the Monkey-eating eagle requires "a contiguous territory in excess of 100 square kilometers of advanced second growth a...

Megafauna

Interestingly, the Actodus simus still lives today and is thirty percent larger than the grizzly bear ("Pleistocene Megafauna," 20...

Endangered Species and Their Relation to Man

643 Natural systems exist in a precarious balance. So too do the species of plants and animals...

Phylogenetic Order Within the Animal Kingdom

The eight organisms that are the focus of this paper, i.e. the common mosquito, the common flea, the...

Tamarisk the Invader

habitat or region, but moves in and takes over, crowding out indigenous plants and often changing the entire character of the habi...

Goodall's First Observations, Mowat's Observing Wolves and Themes of Communication

In five pages communication skills as each of these essays reflect are examined in terms of the animal species featured in each. ...

Visiting South Africa's Cape Town from a Gardener's Perspective

In this paper consisting of five pages the botanic possibilities of this region and their source of fascination for any gardening ...

Elephant Ivory and the 1989 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species

just one small purchase wont make a noticeable dent in the problem. But of course, when this is multiplied times the number of pe...

A Review of Extinct Humans

A 5 page essay that provides an overview of the book by Tattersall and Schwartz. The focus is evolution as it has been expererien...

Discussion of Deforestation

Deforestation is discussed in eight pages in terms of global warming, diversity of species, and soil erosion. Eight sources are c...

Environmental Perspective and Evolution

In five pages this research paper answers 3 questions pertaining to the environment with considerations of evolution, conservation...

An Examination of the African Exodus and the Development of the Human Species

In a paper consisting of seven pages the why and where the human species evolved traces its origins to the African continent. The...

Hawaiian Island's Monk Seal Endangered Species

longer if action is not taken to try to preserve the remaining few that there are. As of this writing there are only one thousand...

Tutorial on the Dinosaur Age

animal and plant species that have formed the existing ecosystem in terms of the need to learn more about the past. this can then...

Environment and Moral Pluralism

one thing, the variety of the species is one reason there are many different theories; each species could require a different type...

Owl Ears and Their Presumed Efficiency

not balanced with each other and are different shapes. This is in order to augment depth perception. Owls have very keen vision ...

Dennis Bonnette's Origin Of The Human Species

In a paper consisting of seven pages the philosopher Bonnette is compared with Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle in the contention that...

Species Known as Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera)

softball and has spawned a number of unique names in addition to those noted above. Each fruit from Osage Orange has many fleshy ...

Examination of Biodiversity

would occupy only "1.4 percent of the planets land surface, roughly equivalent to Alaska and Texas combined" (2002, 86), and yet a...

Illinois' Endangered River Otter Species

successful that the State of Illinois discontinued the program because their numbers were successfully increasing on their own. T...

Biodiversity and Climate Change Offer Hope

climactic shifts that are taking place. In short, according to Grossman, mankinds arrogance and refusal to believe that he was a ...

Overview of the Nervous System of Humans and Animals

In two pages this comparative analysis of the nervous systems of various species and human beings is presented. There are two sou...

Species Extinction and Growth of the Human Population

Academy of Sciences on Sustainable Consumption (1997) makes a valuable point in linking consumption, population growth, and the im...

Alaska's Glacial Moraine Succession

exposed rock of the moraines: "the rebirth of the temperate rainforest begins, with alder, willow,...

Humans, Animals, and Moral Obligations

to maintain a state of consciousness is no proof that it does not exist elsewhere. Consciousness is not something specific ...