The Pine Barrens

Acid rain is a huge problem to the world. Acid rain is defined as “precipitation, as rain, snow, or sleet, containing relatively high concentrations of acid-forming chemicals, as the pollutants from coal smoke, chemical manufacturing, and smelting, that have been released into the atmosphere and combined with water vapor: harmful to the environment”(Dictionary.com). Acid rain has huge effects on trees and plants, waterways, and soil (epa.gov). Acid rain is an unnatural environmental problem that

leaves or the grass to turn completely brown. Everywhere I looked, patches of green grass peeked from forest glens and barren wisteria vines and multihued, leafed honeysuckle vines frapped hardwoods along the shore. Above those, tall elegant cypress trees reached for the sun welcoming it into the forest. I too, felt comforted by the forest - the winds through the boughs of the cypress pines and moss-hung oaks sang to me as we traveled upriver. Broken, scattered clouds drifted across the sky

The Great Northwoods As with all things, the history of an event does not begin at its conception. With this in mind, it is my intention to provide the reader with a general history of events that led to the formation of the Nicolet National Forest of northern Wisconsin. In order to do so, I found it necessary to begin with the early explorations of such notables as James Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, and Jean Nicolet. These French explorers blazed a path that enabled the settling

region to near where New York is currently. Various environmental situations south of the ice sheets remained in place, though in the north part of the continent, once been covered with dense forests, fertile land, and abundant game, ended up cold and barren. Hidden lands started to become exposed. Forceful winds moved seeds planting many types of vegetation alongside the glaciers. Ten thousand years ago, the glaciers withdrew to their current size. Such as widespread range of animals increased on

Most of the animals found on the road were abandoned by their house owners, the bulk of those animals square measure either cats or dogs. with reference to abandoned dogs, those animals while not superintendence reproduce, breeding puppies that are not desired and so, square measure assaulted through the neglect that they're left to suffer alone within the cruel world of the road. the tough conditions that street animals endure square measure major issues in animal welfare these days. Nearly seventy

The Vikings The word Viking in the Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language says that the word Viking means the following. “Vi•king 1. any of the Scandinavian pirates who plunder the coasts of Europe from the 8th to 10th centuries. 2. a sea-roving bandit: pirate. 3. a Scandinavian. 4. U.S. Aerospace. One of a series of space probes that obtained scientific information about Mars.” (1) The Vikings lived about one thousand years ago in the lands that we now call Iceland

Custer's Revenge The Battle of Little Bighorn is one of the most significant battles in American history. This is not because of the weaponry used, the casualties, or even the battle strategies. This is because the battle is one of the only big battles that Native Americans won against the U.S. military. After this battle, the Native American power in the West ended. Ironically, by winning the Battle of Little Bighorn, the Sioux and Cheyenne actually sped up the downfall of Native American

Kesey highlights two distinctions between the roles of women in his novel ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’. He places women in two categories, the ‘Ballcutters’ and ‘Whores’ . The ‘Ballcutters’ are presented to have a dominant role over the men within the ‘Combine’ and challenges their masculinity, resulting in them being personified as machines. This is demonstrated when Bromden describes the ‘tip of each finger the same colour as her lips. Funny orange. Like the tip of a soldering iron’ of Nurse

Our next destination was Ooty or Udhagamandalam which is one of the most famous hill destinations of the South India. Any visit in the area seems incomplete without this jewel in the itinerary. So we had no intention of missing this must have destination. We decided to cover it over two days including the trip of famous mountain railway toy train on the second day. We left Chennai on night of 23rd December by Nilgiri Express and reached Mettupalayam by 6 in the morning. Mettupalayam is like a base

Land degradation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Serious land degradation in Nauru after the depletion of the phosphate cover through mining Land degradation is a concept in which the value of the biophysical environment is affected by one or more combination of human-induced processes acting upon the land.[1] It is viewed as any change or disturbance to the land perceived to be deleterious or undesirable.[2] Natural hazards are excluded as a cause, however human activities can indirectly