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The sustainable development goals are 17 goals set by the United Nations general assembly on September 25th, 2015. On this day countries adopted a set of goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda. They address various global challenges we face, including issues…

Hardwood (any leaf-bearing tree) and softwood (any cone-bearing tree). Similarly, as with most other regular groupings, this may get somewhat bewildering because of the truth that there are a couple of leaf-bearing trees that can have reasonably fragile wood, while a couple of coniferous trees that can have or possibly troublesome wood. Generally talking, regardless,…

Forests of Australia consist mainly of different species (over 600) of eucalyptus trees, from giant trees in height to small shrubs, numerous acacias (490 species), baksii (46 species), etc. Agate (kauri), callitris, phylloclus , araucaria. In the forests and forest savannah, there are “bottle” trees with trunks blown in the middle, and a kind of…

Hollis Governor: State of New York Office of the Governor 110 State Street, Albany, NY 11224 Dear Governor Hollis, My name is Courtney J. Sadler and I am a Public Health Consultant for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). In my role as a Public Health Consultant, I study possible environmental health…

My Ecological Footprint When I took ecological footprint, the lifestyle I am living occupies 3.9 hectares of the Earth’s productive land and should be improved by a capacity of 2.1 planets per year. If everyone lived the same lifestyle, it will need about 2.1 planets yearly to provide for the human population. I contribute towards…

Earth is the only known planet in this universe where life is possible only because of the availability of water and oxygen. Water is most important necessity of life for all the living beings on the earth. Without water no one can exist even for a day. We also know that there is very less…

Which is part of the extensive Corbett Tiger Reserve, lies in Nainital County, India. Corbett’s magical landscapes have long been well known, which gave rise to many legends about tiger wealth. Opened in 1936 under the name of Hayley, Corbett received its status as the oldest and most prestigious national park in India. In 1973,…

On our planet, phenomenas occur occasionally in nature. Tornadoes, earthquakes, and flashfloods are all types of phenomenas that could occur. Most of these mysterious events are small and go unnoticed; however, on a rare occasion these sorts of event can be horrendous. One such occasion occurred back around 4,000 BC (Werner Keller, 48). As the…

What species would travel over 2000 miles just to have young and then die? It has been said that anyone who has not seen a wild salmon has not seen what a fish should be. Salmon was the common name applied to fish characterized by an elongated body covered with small, rounded scales and a…

How could one describe the relationship between humans and nature? Perhaps it is one of control, a constant struggle between the power of the elements and the sophistication of human mechanization. Could it be one of symbiosis, where man and nature coexist in relative peace? Are we, as a species, simply a part of natures…