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    soil and trees from their native place to an alien place and calling it a conservational phenomenon seems paradoxical and requires further analysis. The idea of colonizing space as a future prospect has been explored particularly with reference to Biosphere 2 a comparison between the present responses to the crisis and relevant responses which have been proposed but not implemented has also been discussed in this report. To sum up this report analyzes the political and capitalistic motives behind the

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    A chaparral biome is a plant community shaped by a specific climate characterized by hot, dry summers, and rainy winters. This climate is known as the Mediterranean climate and it occurs in regions located within the Mediterranean Basin. Although Mediterranean climate is common within the Mediterranean Basin, it is not exclusive to this area. It can also be experienced in many other areas throughout the world including Cape Town located in South Africa, the western coast of South America, and the

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    Gaia: Argument over a single word Essay

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    Introduction Whenever one hears the word Gaia, he or she will also hear life, goddess, purpose, ecology, and undoubtedly controversy. Not many topics have provoked more controversy among the scientific community than the idea that the atmosphere, biosphere, and its living organisms behave as a single system, striving to maintain a stability that is conducive to the existence of life—the so-called Gaia theory or Gaia hypothesis. The main

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    Diversity of Marine Algae in the Biosphere 2Ocean Red algae, Rhodophyta, is easily identified in the marine environment because it appears as a red color. There are many different species, originating from many different corners of the Earth. The ocean biome in the Biosphere 2 was constructed using raw seawater off the coast of Southern California, which contained many different unknown species of algae. During the construction of the biome, other known species of algae from various

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    Reference: Lovelock, James, The Vanishing Face of Gaia A Final Warning, Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books, London, England.2009, 178 pages. Basic Information: Title: The Vanishing Face of Gaia A Final Warning  Author: James Lovelock  Year of publication: London, England in 2009  Publisher: Penguin Books LTD  Number of pages: 178 pages About the author: James Lovelock was born on July 26, 1919 in Letchworth Garden City in the United Kingdom

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    David Suzuki provided an educational video on how us as humans make a big difference in our world. We are the earth, we aren't just a species that is on the earth, and we are every different kind of essence of earth. The earths resources and problems that go on in our world are from us, we are our only hope to keep or save the way our planet is going. Globalization is a big part in the way we treat our planet and how it will turn out, how we treat it will depend on how we react to problems. Gaia’s

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    Published in 1965 by James Lovelock, the Gaia Hypothesis proposes that organism’s interact with their inorganic surrounding on Earth to form a multifaceted, self-regulating structure that preserves the circumstances of life on the planet. The theory has sparked religious, philosophical assumptions about the evolution, and the significance of humans in influential ecological alteration, and the association between life and the ecosystem. In this essay, I will be exploring and comparing the Gaia hypothesis

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    Welcome to the marines I hope you have fun, get good information, and learn a lot. Have you ever been to the marines, if you haven’t you really should you will have a blast. I will explain the climate and location of this biome. I will also explain the plant species and animal species of this biome. Lastly, I will explain the environmental concerns and how humans can help the biome concerns. I will even add a bonus with some fun facts for you. The marine biome is located in the Pacific, Atlantic

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    The Tundra Biome

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    A biome is a major biological community that occurs over a large area of land. Each biome is characterized by particular environmental and geographic conditions such as precipitation, temperature, wind, soil conditions, proximity to water, amount of sunlight. Did you know that there are five major biomes on the whole Earth? Even though we live on a big world different regions in the same biome tend to support similar types of plant and animal life. There is some overlap between biomes, but scientist

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    Biomes In The Tundra

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    Biomes are a large community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat. There are nine major biomes in the world which include; tundra, taiga, temperate forest, tropical forest, desert, savanna, chaparral, freshwater, and marine/salt water. “All of the biomes need to be protected over the past several years, human activity has destroyed, exploited, or polluted many of the biomes.” They are spilt in three regions, temperate, tropical, and polar. And have two broad habitat types, terrestrial and

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