Environment - February 2007

Does the western society pay native people living in the Amazon to cut the trees down and clear land for development? Do companies actually send workers over there and cut the trees down? Are we paying the people living the Amazon to destroy their environment?

2007-02-17 16:14:42 · 5 answers · asked by Shelly 1

2007-02-17 15:47:50 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

If biofuel is more efficient and cleaner and better for the environment and cheaper why dont we use it instead of regular oil?

2007-02-17 14:17:10 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

This question is for people who believe that global warming is a valid threat to our world. If you think global warming is a fairy tale concocted by psycho environmentalists...this question is NOT for you. That said: Should government(s) be focusing on preventing any more greenhouse emissions, deforestation, etc? It seems like they want to leave it up to the masses to buy hybrids, carpool, recycle, but is that enough? Does any one think it is time for serious action, even at the expense of personal luxuries and conveniences we take for granted? I do!

2007-02-17 14:02:49 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

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2007-02-17 13:00:52 · 6 answers · asked by Jay 6

2007-02-17 12:47:45 · 14 answers · asked by sunshine_mynx 2

iam gettig sick of seeing the waste by native hunter or so they say they are and the net fishing of lake to the native witch iam thinking wide up in the fish market when is it going to be enough

2007-02-17 12:43:59 · 3 answers · asked by vghsniper 1

Hi, I am a sophomore in highschool and am applying to the North Carolina School of Science and Math (NCSSM). This is because I have developed and interest in working in the jungle (specifically of Ecuador) by studying the flora and fauna there and also increasing awareness of how to protect it.
I was born in Ecuador and lived there for the first three and a half years of my life. My Dad lived there for most of his life and grew up living in and around the jungle. He, along with his family, sustained themselves for much of their lives by doing backpacking tours through the jungle and by other informal jungle tourism.
Last summer I went back to Ecuador and while there was able to walk through jungle that my Dad owned. After doing this, I developed a true appreciation for it.
As part of the application process we have to be interviewed. I would like to hear from people working in and for the rain forest so that I will be more studied on the subject and able to talk about it. Thank you.

2007-02-17 12:28:22 · 3 answers · asked by nc_kickz 3

2007-02-17 10:56:02 · 12 answers · asked by Paul G 2

Some people do, some people don't. Do you?

2007-02-17 10:30:10 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

How is the problem of water scarcity affecting water management? What are the tensions in the area between the areas do to water?

2007-02-17 10:08:32 · 1 answers · asked by Michael M 4

2007-02-17 09:29:32 · 12 answers · asked by Barrie G 3

are they????

2007-02-17 09:01:45 · 3 answers · asked by tangerine 1

Yesterday I cruised Yahoo's best answers and saw a question about the most efficient renewable resources. The answer chosen as best may have been the best of those given. I wasn't much impressed. To me the word "renewable" applies to corn-based ethanol, switch grass and the like. When one brings up wind, geothermal, electromagnetic, solar, tidal, hydroelectric, or any reliably recurring natural force, the term "virtually unlimited" strikes me as being more accurate. This answerer had abandoned hydroelectric because it kills fish. If current methods of tapping this resource kill fish, let's fix our methods, not give up on the resource. Same with solar power. The answer I saw dismissed solar power as "not worth mentioning" later citing occasonal cloud cover as a problem. I believe in human ingenuity. Someone has invented or could invent a solar battery that could power Manhatten through a month of overcast if power and oil companies would sponser it. Fat chance, right?

2007-02-17 08:43:41 · 1 answers · asked by socrates 6

2007-02-17 08:40:57 · 4 answers · asked by ebillar 1

costs lives and inovation do not match in transportation.

2007-02-17 07:48:33 · 4 answers · asked by knowmorespeless 1

How is ozone formation in the troposphere different from ozone formation in the stratosphere?

2007-02-17 07:39:43 · 3 answers · asked by Mint Car 1

Calculate Kp for the reaction


NO(g) + O3(g) → NO2(g) + O2(g)


under the following conditions:


T = 298 K



Pressure of NO = 1.62 x 10-5 atm
Pressure of O3 = 1.10 x 10-5 atm



Pressure of NO2 = 2.70 x 10-6 atm
Pressure of O2 = 2.25 x 10-2 atm

2007-02-17 07:11:24 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-17 06:39:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-17 06:16:54 · 9 answers · asked by QQ dri lu 4

I recently went to Dillon Beach in CA, and at low tide the rocks are covered in Mussels. Are they safe to consume once they are steamed or should they be avoided??? Thanks!!!

2007-02-17 06:04:15 · 2 answers · asked by Gemstone 1

2007-02-17 05:53:29 · 11 answers · asked by Jerome M 1

2007-02-17 05:21:39 · 16 answers · asked by champ 1

cause water levels to rise. I'm having trouble understanding this because the majority of the ice is under water. When you put ice in water, the water level stays the same once the ice melts. Only if the ice is solid right to the bottom and rises significantly above the water, does the level increase. (I couldn't help doing some kitchen experiments - my husband thinks I've finally lost it :o) So... Is the majority of ice at the polar caps, solid right down to the ocean floor? I don't understand how else the water levels could rise. I haven't yet seen the docmentary, "An Inconvenient Truth" - maybe this is answered there.

Thanks, Just curious.

2007-02-17 05:09:28 · 7 answers · asked by zenobia2525 3

I know that if we cooperate with each other and learn to love our world before we destroy it, we will be able to reach for a solution, but, could that be posible?

2007-02-17 04:44:38 · 5 answers · asked by Hexis 1

2007-02-17 04:42:22 · 2 answers · asked by ian h 1

I have found that just because a product is cruelty free doesn't mean it's toxin free, sometimes just the opposit is true. If a product, say makeup, states it is organic, is it toxin free by definition, given the parameters of what is organic?

2007-02-17 04:39:51 · 7 answers · asked by maura0904 1

2007-02-17 04:23:25 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-17 04:05:12 · 14 answers · asked by kinki_093 1

instead of using landfill sites to bury rubbish
does any country use it as a fuel to create power

2007-02-17 04:01:22 · 4 answers · asked by mickjack 5