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There are two general types of winds, local winds and global winds. Local winds blow from any direction and usually cover short distances. Global winds blow from a specific direction and almost always cover longer distances than local winds. Both local winds and global winds are caused by differences in air pressure due to unequal…

The environment is an extremely important factor in determaing the developement of a civilization. It can help advance a civilization or impede it. In ancient Africa, the environment affected the different civilivations, such as the Sahel, the Wagado Empire and the Mbuti of the Ituri Forest. The environment uopn many aspects of these and other…

The hardships of the Great Depression of the early part of the twentieth century lead to many drastic decisions by our countries leaders on how to deal with the problem. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States at the time, decided to infiltrate the country with government money to create jobs and better the…

The maintains and management of not only the trees in the forest, but the streams, habitat, watersheds, and even the decaying trees or logs on the forest floor. Managing our forests is not only important to the wildlife, but to our future economy and way of life. We need to continue to save the Oregon…

Ecotourism is broadly defined as low impact travel to endangered and often undisturbed locations. It is different from traditional tourism because it allows the traveler to become educated about the areas – both in terms of the physical landscape and cultural characteristics, and often provides funds for conservation and benefits the economic development of places…

The Okanagan District is a region brimming with freshwater lakes, moving slopes, prairies, mountains, timberlands, and Canada’s solitary desert. Home to an assortment of animal types including a few animal varieties recorded as jeopardized or undermined by the Advisory group on the Status of Imperiled Natural life in Canada, the area stretches out from the…

Sri Lanka has a tropical climate due to its location. Monsoonal, convectional, cyclonic and orographic are main rainfall types of the country. The country has been involved in agriculture since time ancient, blessed for its tropical climate and fertile soil. (Sangakkara et.al, ud). Paddy is the main crop among other agricultural crops in Sri Lanka….

Ecotourism is the combination of conservation, communities, and sustainable travel into one, whereby people travel responsibly to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of the local people TIES, (2015) . With ecotourism being one of the fastest growing segments of the tourism industry, many tourists would visit indigenous ecotourism destinations to…

A species of tuna found in pelagic waters of tropical and subtropical oceans worldwide. The yellowfin tuna is among one of the the larger tuna species, reaching weights up to around180 kg (400 lb) which is massive, but is significantly smaller than the Atlantic and Pacific bluefin tunas, which can reach around450 kg in weight…

The aims of land evaluation Land evaluation is concerned with the present land performance, change in the use of land and the land itself, and its effects taking into account land sustainability for future use. Other factors include the economics of the proposed enterprises, the social consequences for the people in the area and the…