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Geological rifting processes in East Africa's Great Rift Valley

Geologists know a great deal about the tectonic plates that form the Earth's crust around the world. They know in which direction plates are moving, how much pressure is being exerted on various plates, and why the movement of plates causes earthquakes.

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Four American environmental thinkers: Thoreau, Muir, Leopold, and Carson

Four pivotal people - whose collective positive impact on the environment and on society's understanding of the natural world is powerful - are featured in this paper.

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The Yellow River's silt problems, devastating floods, and historical solutions

The Yellow River (also known as "Huang He" in Chinese) is the second largest river in China after the Yangtze River and the fifth largest in the world.

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Consumer awareness of fast fashion's environmental impact

The issue of fast or quick fashion and the impact that this phenomenon has on the environment, as well as consumer reaction, has gradually attracted attention from environmentalists, fashion commentators and the general public in recent years.

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Strengthening international frameworks for disaster management and response

Discuss how leaders of nations and the international community can strengthen the framework for international cooperation and collaboration in response to disasters

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Drivers of biofuel adoption in the airline industry

First of all, the oil prices have continuously increased over the last decades and the evaluations that this would happen date back to after 2003.

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Corporate ownership and bias in American news media

The improvement of internet and other technology and its ready availability to more and more people has revolutionized the structure and population of the media around the world. People that would normally be members of the audience have become the creators of news and vice versa.

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Flood warning systems and earthquake early warning in the UK and Japan

Warning systems are essential to communicating threats, whether man-made, technological, or natural, to the public.

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River valley civilizations in ancient China and India

One of the most basic questions in human history surrounds the move from a hunter-gatherer existence to a settled, urban civilization.

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Flood causes, types, and effects on human society

Floods are an overflow of water that submerges land and usually happen because of a large amount of rainfall, saturated soil, and/or the capacity of the body of water is exceeded:

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