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Kyoto Protocol,”Responding to climate change.is one of the internationalcommunity’s attempts at addressing climatechange. It is an amendment to a United Nations treaty onglobal warming. The Protocol is an internationalagreement, adopted in 1997 and in force in 2005,that sets binding targets for industrialized countriesfor the reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases. By 2009
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Read moresubsidence,”Human activities have added to the silt load of therivers. Flood protections have redirected this silt loadto wetlands, causing the delta to actually sink intothe Gulf of Mexico
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Read moreHuman Impacts of the North American Biosphere
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Read moreclimate,”is the long-term balance oftemperature and precipitation thatcharacteristically prevails in aparticular region.Solar energy is the engine of climate. Earth’satmosphere, oceans, and land surfacesabsorb huge amounts of solar energy
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Read moreclear-cut,”- logging, used most widely in NorthAmerica, is the cutting down of all treesregardless of age, health, or species
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Read moretemperature and air pressure,”As the sun warms a unit of cool air, the molecules move farther apart.The air becomes less dense and exerts less pressure. Air tends to move fromareas of higher pressure to areas of lower pressure, creating wind.This happens because land heats up (and cools down) faster than water, so on ahot day, the air over the land warms, rises, and becomes less dense than the airover the water.This causes the cooler, denser air to flow inland. At night the breeze oftenreverses direction
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Read morestrip mining,”where vast quantities of earthand rock are displaced in order toaccess coal underneath
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Read moreorographic rainfall,”- It is a form of precipitation – is rainfall produced when a moving moist air massencounters a mountain range, rises, cools
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