This Radiolab segment is successful in distributing its content and information as it starts on the base level with the information. It acts as an introduction for people who have not heard or thought about the value of nature. It discusses the important topics of our ecosystem services without taking a stance that an everyday American could not understand. The segment does not end with a concrete answer, but rather ends engaging the audience and asking if it is plausible to think that we could really
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Natural selection is the process where life forms that have more favourable traits which allows them to adapt to specific environmental pressures. Thus them being the ones to most likely survive and reproduce in larger numbers than the rest of their species. This will result in the trait being passed down in succeeding generations. An example of modern-day natural selection is the Peppered Moths. The Peppered Moths were originally found mostly with white wings with black speckles across them. This
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The Pangolin can live in parts of Asia and the Sub Saharan Africa. They are losing their habitat mostly because of human activity. Humans are taking down the trees in the forest to clear the paths for roads, mining, logging, and cardamom plantations.” In southeast Asia only about 5% of the original forest is intact”(Hays factsanddetails.com).It may also be that the human population is increasing tremendously. It is threatened mostly because they are being hunted by humans for their delicious meat
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Since the beginning of the age of industrialisation, the concentration of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere has increased by nearly 43%. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas which absorbs and emits infrared radiation, and thereby warms the surface of the Earth and lower atmosphere. As a result of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, the atmosphere is heated and a great amount of the heat is absorbed by the ocean, causing the sea surface temperature to increase. Rising sea surface temperature
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List the 5 projects you have selected to review and indicate why you selected each. Include the project title and author. The first project I reviewed was “How is Wind Farming Negatively Impacting Bat Populations in Texas” by Amy Burdette. I picked her project because I had never of wind farming hurting the bat population. The second project I reviewed was “Changing Patterns of Mosquito-Borne Diseases” by Felicia Castillo. I picked her project because I am learning about mosquito-borne diseases
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Meteorology Meteorology is the scientific study of Earth’s atmosphere and is most often used to predict the weather. The atmosphere is the layer of gases that surround a planet and affect its environment and its weather. Meteorologists, or atmospheric scientists, are scientists who study meteorology (Campbell, R., 2015). They are often employed as a result of their skills by firms that require weather predictions. For example, News casting agencies often employ meteorologists to predict oncoming
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Name: Vandy Wechkunanukul LS Group: Matt Verdon (08) From Part 1 of the Great Barrier Reef in danger Task sheet For your character you will need to Identify and Investigate (using evidence based research and credible data, graphs, equations, images etc): a. What are the values of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area globally? The Great Barrier Reef is a site of remarkable variety and beauty on the north-east coast of Australia and one of the seven natural wonders of the world. The
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The land was just the beginning of the earth. Once land was created, indians started to claim the land. They believed to have landed on a spiritual ground. The first thing that the indians built was the penny ball, and this ball had helped shape the land. The land turned out to be a valley flat as the ocean floor. The land was more rocky that what soil had and dirt had stood before the indians. The penny ball had marked the future of the civilization and what was yet to come. The penny ball had been
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Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) have increased by a staggering 40% (Doney, Fabry et al. 2009), resulting in a lesser known consequence: ocean acidification. Anthropogenic activities such as deforestation and burning of fossil fuels continue to drive these levels higher. (Doney, Fabry et al. 2009) Ocean acidification occurs when the pH of the seawater declines as CO2 dissolves in water by changes in temperature and sea-air gas transfers, causing changes in chemical balances. (Buck and Folger 2009
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Does the Ocean need more help than our people? Well the Ocean has more damage done to it, that it isn’t the same wonderful, heartwarming, wedding crying Ocean anymore. Humans done so much to it, that it is worn down, and the Ocean can’t handle it anymore. According to Ocean Geography Society “We should keep the Ocean alive by not killing the Coral Reefs, and rare fish, or any fish at all, and bring back the past of the wonderful, clean, and mysterious
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