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    Deforestation presents in an abundance of ways, including fires, clear-cutting for agriculture, ranching and development, unsustainable logging for timber, and degradation due to climate change. The foremost reason of deforestation in Latin America is the requirement for food, fuel, shelter, and foreign exchange. Year on year, a space of tropical forest the size of Great Britain is "converted" from an area equal to the size of Europe. Ever since 1950, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization

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    managing and communication are established and there are new norms, values, and regulations. But then again, old products disappeared, old jobs died out, old markets vanished, and many other old things are gone nowadays. This is because of creative destruction, a term coined by Joseph Schumpeter (1942). It refers to the transformation of industry practices. However, transformation is not as easy as it may seem. There are many aspects that make such transformation very difficult to achieve. Uncertainty

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    “Radical vs Incremental Innovation” Banning the Cultural stereotypes Introduction The objective of this paper is to examine two particular forms of innovation – “Radical” and “Incremental”, find relevance and discrepancy in-between and observe an impact triggered by one or two particular forms of innovation. The first part of the paper further elaborates on radical and incremental forms of innovation, draws parallels and emphasizes Its impact on the nature of innovation. Second part of the paper

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    The Earth Has Vast Oceans

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    Out of the eight planets in our solar system, Earth is the only planet circling the Sun on which life as we know it could (and does) exist. Unlike any other planet, the Earth has vast oceans with millions of small islands in them, green vegetation, huge landmasses, different topographies, like the mountains, ice caps and deserts, all of which present an amazing variety of color and texture. be the extremely cold Antarctica, where hardy microscopic beings thrive in ponds, tiny wingless insects live

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    The Amazon rainforest was first being cleared for crop and logging production, but after realizing the economic success of cattle ranching, cattle pastures became the leading reason for deforestation. Different sized ranches, mainly large, made up about 70% of the deforestation

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    Deforestation Effects The rainforest is one of Earth's most valuable resources and at the destruction rate, people need to stop ignoring this problem. “Around the world, Tropical Rainforests are being destroyed at a rate of 80 to 90 acres each minute.”(Thompson, Heather) The rainforest is home of many living creatures and provide the world with many supplies such as, food, clean water, and housing, but soon the population of those living creatures will decrease and those supplies will be gone.

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    Deforestation of The Amazon Rainforest

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    Brazil holds the global warming issue in the palms of its hands and the government of the world’s fifth-largest economy doesn’t seem to care. A recent article featured on usatoday.com states that the destruction of the Amazon rainforest rose 28% from August 2012 to July 2013 after 4 straight years of decline (Sibaja, 2013). I’m sure this may surprise some people because of the widespread concern of global warming and the affect it may have on future generations, but I don’t think the Brazilian government

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    As we economically develop, we create tremendous environmental destruction. In 2000-2009, over 150,000 square kilometers of the Amazon rainforest has been burned down to create room cattle farms, soybean farms, and roads. Since 1970, more than 720,000 square of forests has been destroyed, an area larger than California. In 46 years they destroy more them 720,000 square km, how many would they take in 100 years. Would the rainforest disappear? Because with the rate that we are going it seems like

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    I. Importance The Amazon Rainforest is perhaps the largest and most important terrestrial ecosystem in the world. Home to 30% of all the species known to man (“Importance”), the biodiversity contained within the Amazon Rainforest is unrivaled by any other ecosystem. Encompassing an area roughly the size of the continental United States (“Amazon Rainforest”), the Amazon Rainforest is home to 390 billion trees from 16,000 species, 40,000 plant species, 5,600 fish species, 1,300 bird species, 430

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    Tropical Rainforest Description After my research, I have found that the tropical rainforest is very important because they help maintain global weather and rain patterns. Tropical rainforests are also warm all year round, its temperature barely changes from day to night. The tropical rainforest is pretty wet from all that rain and has high humidity. The vegetation in a rainforest is very green with very different heights. There are three major layers of vegetation. The first and top layer is called

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