... are small and the nostrils closable. The skull is massive, with marked ridges for fixing the muscles that work the jaws. The two front teeth on either jaw are like those of other rodents, wearing away more rapidly behind so as to leave a sharp, enameled chisel edge. With these can cut down large trees. It usually selects trees 5 to 20 cm (2 to 8 in) in diameter, but it can fell trees with diameters as large as 76 cm (30 in). Beavers have a pair of anal scent glands, called castors, that secrete a musklike substance called castoreum, probably for marking territories. The animals tend to be monogamous and may live 20 years or more. The female has one litter a year, u ...
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... crop damage in the lower atmosphere. Ozone is formed through the chemical reaction of volatile organic compounds and nitrogen dioxide, in the atmosphere, in the presence of sunlight. This reaction is called a photochemical reaction, because sunlight is required. The product is known as smog. The notorious brownish color of smog is due to nitrogen dioxide of the mixture. Increased temperature stimulate the reaction, which is why ozone conditions are worse in the summer. It is an oxidant, meaning it takes electrons away from other molecules, and disrupts key structures in cells by starting chain reactions. Ozone is a serious national problem. Half of the larges ...
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... grabbed the guard’s AK-47 and killed seven more crew members on the way to the torpedo bay where he locked himself in. This suicidal teenager the stayed in the bay for twenty hours threatening to blow it up and potentially causing a “Floating Chernobyl”(Paddock-thestar.com). He talked to his mother and then he just killed himself. When scientists and nuclear activists got a hold of this story “it sent shivers through their spine” (Paddock-thestar.com). This was because one day they know that one suicidal teenager will actually have the guts to just blow himself up with all those nuclear warheads. Russian officials were q ...
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... manure is pumped into open-air lagoons, which are large, shallow pits dug into the ground, where it is stored until it can be pumped out to irrigate fields. The solid manure sinks to the bottom of the lagoon and is broken down by anaerobic bacteria over several months. The liquid rises to the top and is collected and sprayed over nearby fields. Many problems come with the lagoons. North Carolina is one of the top hog producing states in the country. On June 21, 1995, North Carolina suffered the largest agricultural waste spill in its history: a 7.5-acre, 12-foot-deep lagoon leaked 25 million gallons of hog waste into the headwaters of the New River near Rich ...
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... bacterial diseases readily. Ever since antibiotics became widely available in the 1940s, they have been hailed as miracle drugs -- magic bullets able to eliminate bacteria without doing much harm to the cells of treated individuals. Yet with each passing decade, bacteria that defy not only single but multiple antibiotics -- and therefore are extremely difficult to control -- have become increasingly common. What is more, strains of at least three bacterial species capable of causing life-threatening illnesses (Enterococcus faecalis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa) already evade every antibiotic in the clinician's stockpile of more than 1 ...
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... of kilometres from the source.When the acids fall to the earth in any form it will have large impact on the growth or the preservation of certain wildlife. NO DEFENSE Areas in Ontario mainly southern regions that are near the Great Lakes, such substances as limestone or other known antacids can neutralize acids entering the body of water thereby protecting it. However, large areas of Ontario that are near the Pre-Cambrian Shield, with quartzite or granite based geology and little top soil, there is not enough buffering capacity to neutralize even small amounts of acid falling on the soil and the lakes. Therefore over time, the basic environment shi ...
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... The Siberian Tiger is a mobile creature and it lives in northern Asia and is found as for north as the Arctic Circle. It's territory is more than four thousand square miles and it will keep that territory indefinitely, as long as the food supply lasts. The Siberian Tiger hunts very much but only about one tenth of the hunts are successful. It requires more than twenty pounds of meat per day. It is heterotrophic and it's diet consists mainly of deer, boar, bear and fish. The Siberian Tiger is a solitary animal. Males and females are only together during mating season. Females will only stay with their litter of two or three cubs for less than tw ...
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... at costs low enough to enable cellulose (the hydrocarbon provider necessary for fuel production) to recapture lost markets. This versatility has led people to believe it is the only biomass resource capable of making America energy independent. There is only one catch: the federal government prohibited the growth of hemp in 1938. There were also theories that the major energy industries of the late 30s collaborated to ensure a petroleum-based energy market. Regardless of laws, let us consider hypotheticals. Farmers would be practically guaranteed profit if they could grow hemp for biomass. It also would not take long for a measly 6% of the American landma ...
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... With DSL, the normal speed is 384 kb/s with the max at 1.1 Mb/s (megabits per second). With DSL, one's computer could be online at all times. There would be no busy signals or dial-in hassles. If someone wanted to look something up on the internet real quick or check their mail, all they would have to do is start their internet browser or email client and they would be set. DSL wouldn't only make our internet experience more enjoyable, but it would also improve the quality and reliability of normal phones. The digital format would be able to reproduce sound quality with great fidelity. Static-filled and "noisy" phone lines would be a thing of the past allow ...
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... of malaria all over the world. It nearly wiped out the disease in some countries altogether. It has been repeatedly proven that DDT does not cause any form of cancer in humans. Contrary to what environmentalist attacks on the pesticide have alleged, the benefits of DDT far exceed the flaws. DDT was first synthesized in 1887 and patented as an insecticide in 1939 by a Swiss chemist, Dr. Paul Müller (Whelan 69). It initially became popular because of its effectiveness against insects, specifically clothes moths and parasites of both animals and plants. DDT was welcomed as a substitute for toxic insecticides like arsenic, mercury, fluorine, and lead (Whelan 70) ...
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