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Administration of President George W. Bush, Endangered Species, and International Trade

of all the various ways animals serve mankind, there has historically been little thought given to their own right to existence, h...

Regulations and Zoning

In a paper of four pages, the authore reflects on major environmental legislation, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, a...

Sixteen Microorganisms and Their Impact on Human Health

This paper provides a species overview, diagnostic techniques, and recommended treatment for Staphylococcus aureus, Mycobacterium ...

Biodiversity and Climate Change Offer Hope

climactic shifts that are taking place. In short, according to Grossman, mankinds arrogance and refusal to believe that he was a ...

Endangered Species Conservation, Cultural, Economic, and Political Constraints

interacts with another, as well as what governs overall cultural behavior. According to Berkes (1993), "traditional ecological kn...

Overview of the Nervous System of Humans and Animals

In two pages this comparative analysis of the nervous systems of various species and human beings is presented. There are two sou...

Species Extinction and Growth of the Human Population

Academy of Sciences on Sustainable Consumption (1997) makes a valuable point in linking consumption, population growth, and the im...

Women, Minority Women, and Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution

weak are all gone)" (Darwin, 1968, pp. 116, 129; Christian, 2003). Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" to ...

The Importance of Biodiversity

beyond the "natural" extinction process and is a direct result of mankind and his abuses of the environment. The problem...

Endangered Species: Indiana Bat

commercialization has had upon the Indiana bat population. Bats need to be left alone during hibernation; when people are provide...

Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Darwinism

Hardy presents the tragic story of a young dairymaid, descended on her mothers side from rough peasant folk and on her fathers fro...

The Threat to Earth Presented by Global Warming

on global warming: "We know the theory, which says that human activity could be important, but the theory cannot be trusted until ...

The Threat to Earth Presented by Global Warming

on global warming: "We know the theory, which says that human activity could be important, but the theory cannot be trusted until ...

Man’s impact on the environment

to what it might mean to other species of animals. When we consider habitat disruption at the hands of development, hundred...

Genetic Diversity and the Origin of Life

According to one theory, the universe and its components were formed in a single cataclysmic explosion between ten and twenty mill...

Lemurs

million years ago (Weir 16). One theory on how lemurs came to Madagascar is that some of their number was "washed from the African...

Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves

National Nature Reserve (which well refer to as the Reserves to avoid all those diacritical marks) comprises the A?r Massif, a "va...

Giant Pandas and River Otters

carnivores, but they are vegetarians and eat almost nothing but bamboo (World Wildlife Federation). "Pandas live mainly on the gro...

The Threat of Global Warming

atmosphere have been measured since the late 1950s (Schneider). These measurements have revealed a steady increase in the amount o...

Invasive Species and the Environment

located there-are not good for that environment. This paper discusses the ecological nature of this problem and possible solutions...

Ecology of the Galapagos

islands and islets. There are 13 major islands in the archipelago, ranging in size from 5 to 1800 square miles in size, with more ...

Climate Change

and Vranes). This same organization reported that the ice on the Arctic Sea was the lowest ever in 2007 (Nodvin and Vranes). The d...

Endangered Species and Environment: Human Caused, Human Moral Obligations

the amphibians that are fortunate enough to survive will be battling against humans for natural resources. IV. The Amazon Basin A...

Examination of Darwin's Theory of Evolution

wide variety of facts better than any other theory. It is also true that some scientific theories are better at providing an expla...

Considerations Regarding the Endangered Species Act

First enacted in 1973, the Endangered Species Act is one of the most critical laws that...

Tamarisk the Invader

habitat or region, but moves in and takes over, crowding out indigenous plants and often changing the entire character of the habi...

"The Effects Of Television" By William Henry III

activity and increase in food consumption due in great part to highly effective advertising. The authors support for this argumen...

Laurent Dubois' "Avengers Of The New World: The Story Of Haitian Revolution"

other ways, as well - to lead a rebellion due to his ability to read, write and obtain a superior understanding of the world beyon...

Thoreau/Nature Essays

imposed boundaries. He asks, "What sort of a country is that where the huckleberry fields are private property? When I pass such f...

Clines, Race and Society

we are actually looking at "is a pattern of features derived from common ancestry in the area in question, and these are largely w...