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Legal and environmental aspects of hydraulic fracturing regulation

Hydraulic Fracturing -- also commonly referred to as "fracking" -- is a technique for extracting natural gas and oil from the crust of the earth. It has become a controversial program because there are environmental impacts associated with fracking.

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Genetically modified crop plants and genetic engineering technology

The term genetically modified organisms, popularly referred to as GMOs, constitute crops, animals and even microorganisms that have undergone development my man and technology.

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Geological causes of landslips at Jackfield in the Ironbridge Gorge

The Jackfield site is bounded by the River Severn to the north, the Jackfield Tile Museum to the west and the footbridge across the Severn near The Boat Inn to the east; the southern boundary runs approximately NW-SE through Woodhouse Farm.

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Instruction manual for a future electric vehicle

For this project, I intend to write an instruction manual for an electric car. This seems like an interesting topic because environmental issues are becoming more noticeable all the time and it seems that our society will have to accelerate its response to these issues.

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Personal resource consumption and daily energy use audit

How much water do I use in a day? How much electricity do I use daily? What other resources do I count on and consume each day, like gasoline, food, paper products, ink, and other materials? This paper is a fine way for me to begin to catalogue those materials.

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Globalization's mixed economic and social impacts on labor and inequality

Globalization has become a ubiquitously word in the last few decades. Much of the globalization trend is driven by the fact that many organizations operate internationally and supply chains have become sophisticated, complex, and spans the entire globe.

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Energy sources and development in the global economy

Energy being a corner stone of the current industrial economy, it does offer an indispensable component for approximately the entire human activities.

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Noise pollution from aerial tours at Grand Canyon National Park

Grand Canyon is one of the most sought after destinations in Arizona, U.S. The landscape as well as the trails offered to individual traveler's offers a unique environment that can only be found here. The Grand Canyon National Park surrounds a gorge of the Colorado River and was established on Feb.

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Cognitive strategies college sophomores employ when confronting misperceptions

Substantive Question. Significance of substantive question. This section describes the significance of a suitable substantive research question, formulated for social analysis. Categorically, the social science research topic for this paper is human psychological development.

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Corporate externalities and anthropogenic environmental threats

The days in which institutions could ethically overlook the negative externalities they inflict on society have long since vanished with the introduction of a scientific consensus on anthropogenic influences and the effects they have on the health of the planet.

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