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    uprising they began to redouble their efforts, they started composting, cultivating, they built irrigation systems and began to terrace the landscape to make farming more efficient and prevent erosion. They dammed rivers and flooded swamplands and marshes to create rich farmland. They instituted transport systems to move fertile silt and mud from lowlands to higher enclosed gardens and farms and created man made lakes and ponds that they used to fish and systems of corrals held wild game. They maximized

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    Organophosphate is a term applied to describe any organic phosphorus (V) -bearing compound, it too refers to insecticides that acting on the enzyme acetylcholinesterase. Organophosphate pesticides degrade at high speed by hydrolysis on exposure to soil, air and sunlight; these characteristics made them a desirable alternative to the persistent organochloride pesticides. Many of organophosphate operative by inhibiting the action of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in nerve cells, which is vital to nerve

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    Effects of increasing carbon dioxide on coral reefs and the ecosystem services Coral reefs are not just a bar of coral living beneath the surface of the water, but a diverse ecosystem with many food webs and inter-species relationships. Coral itself has a complex symbiotic relationship between polyp and zooplankton which lives as an endosymbiont in the polyp tissue. Ecosystem services are what the Coral provides to its nearby organisms and the physical environment. Coral’s calcium carbonate shell

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    Archaea are extremophiles because this organisms are inhibit extreme environment and are well adapted with their habitat. Archaea are only presence in minority diverse. Archaea used cultured independent technique in global habitat in their presence, so they cannot be cultured in the laboratory setting. One thing that commonly used culture independent technique is the isolation, and analysis of nucleic acid rather than analysis of cultured sample isolated from the same environment. They using RNA

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    South America based on seasons. Habitat Snowy egrets inhabit marshes, ponds, swamps, and mudflats (Bull & Farrand). Since snowy egrets are wading birds, like other herons and egrets, they prefer habitats that are close to water. Wading birds breed and build their nests in close proximity to water, allowing them to have access to food while raising their young. In North America, the snowy egret’s favorite habitats include salt marshes, shallow bays, and mangroves. Snowy egrets prefer similar habitats

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    Tar Sands Essay Jon Brownell The Alberta Tar Sands are large deposits of bitumen,a sticky, black and viscous semi-solid form of petroleum.(Merriam Webster) The bitumen is extracted from the earth and separated from materials that are not petroleum. This process consumes both water from the Athabasca River drainage basin and energy. While emissions from the water used are low the airborne pollutants contain more than 350 kilograms of cancer causing chemicals every four months.(Kelly) Also, bitumen

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    Marine Ecosystem? Marine ecosystems are among the largest of Earth's aquatic ecosystems. It covers almost 70% of the earth’s surface. They include oceans, salt marsh and intertidal ecology, estuaries and lagoons, mangroves and coral reefs, the deep sea and the sea floor. They can be contrasted with freshwater ecosystems, which have a lower salt content.   Why is the Marine Ecosystem important? Marine ecosystems are very important in to the overall health of both marine and terrestrial environments

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    Cholera is an infectious bacterial disease of the small intestine. This bacterium has spread through the world covering about 50 countries that came about through 7 pandemics. This disease is a worldwide public health concern affecting 3-5 million people each year, killing 120,000. Before, it was thought that cholera spread through a sort of fog known as a miasma however now we know the whole mechanism for the cholera toxin. It was discovered that cholera is transmitted through fecal-oral transmission

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    is important to the Air Force. The illness associated with the malaria parasite was first thought to be a result of poisonous mists drifting from marshes hence its name meaning “bad air” in Italian. Of course it was unbeknownst back then that it was actually caused by the female anopheles mosquito which tends to live near still water such as marshes.2 Although it was unknown what actually caused the symptoms of malaria,

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    A Seminar Report On “BLUE EYES” TECHNOLOGY By Anuj Arora(UE7510) [pic] University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Panjab University [2010-2011] Overview 1. Need of Biofuels – Global Problems 2. Algae – Part of Solution 3. Current Trends In Production 4. Recent Research 5. Challenges 6. Conclusions Need of Biofuels – Global Problems Global Problems – Oil Price/Supply ▪ Peak oil approaching. ▪ Current oil and diesel prices

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