... less than 1% of tropical forest species have been thoroughly examined for their beneficial chemical compounds. Further studies can, potentially, provide people with new products and medicines. For example these studies can provide clues for manufacturing chemical substitutes for gasoline or medicines for cancer cures. The rain forest is being destroyed very rapidly. Roughly 2.4 acres are destroyed per second, this is equivalent to 2 football fields ... or 214,000 acres per day. That amount is larger than New York City. An ... estimated 50-78 million acres of rain forests are destroyed e...

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... cooler due to offshore breezes. Because of the heat and lack of rain, bushfires rage through the tinder-dry landscape, destroying half a million acres of forest and grassland every year. The hot temperatures of the inland coupled with the lack of rain mean that 70% of Australia receives ... where it could camp, hunt, and fish. The Aborigines brought two useful items from their original homeland: the dingo and the boomerang. As for Australia today, the population is around 19,169,083. The majority of these people are of Caucasian descent, although there are many other ethnic ... one. Melbo...

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... government policy that required children that were half white and half aboriginal to be taken from their homes by authorities to be trained to work as servants for the whites. This is based on a true story about three young girls who decided to escape from this training facility and they used Australia's long ... from a chicken coop. Unlike most of Australia's dry land in this movie, this farm seemed to have very lush vegetation as it was surrounded by acres of soft green grass with green trees to match. As one of the girls walked into the coop very cautiously, the camera shook and fol...

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... humid. It is humid in rainforests because of all the rainfall. The approximate amount of annual rainfall is ninety-eight feet per year with room for decrease and increase. This is a lot of annual rain compared to regular forests. Hence the name "rainforest- Two of many plants that grow ... reduces soil erosion. This helps especially because rainforests are disappearing at the rate of 80 acres a minute. The Bengal bamboo is not on the endangered species list; therefore, it may help rainforests out for many years to come. Deserts and the Plants Within Deserts are areas where rainfall is .....

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... rainforest carry these pollutants far and wide. 3. Animal Farming More and more rainforest is destroyed to provide grazing land for animals to meet the world demand for meat. It is estimated that to graze one steer in the Amazon area, it takes two full acres. The surprising thing is that most of the ranchers in the Amazon operate at a loss, yielding only paper ... profits purely as tax shelters. 4. Subsistence Farming The exploding populations in the third world countries of South America and the Far East results in more destruction of the rainforest for "subsistence farming."" The trage...

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... rainforest carry these pollutants far and wide. 3. Animal Farming More and more rainforest is destroyed to provide grazing land for animals to meet the world demand for meat. It is estimated that to graze one steer in the Amazon area, it takes two full acres. The surprising thing is that most of the ranchers in the Amazon operate at a loss, yielding only paper ... profits purely as tax shelters. 4. Subsistence Farming The exploding populations in the third world countries of South America and the Far East results in more destruction of the rainforest for "subsistence farming."" The trage...

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... and water tests, crop histories, production, and rotation plans. The area in which organic crops are to be grown must be chemical free for 3 years. They verify compliance with standards through annual and spot inspections, and record keeping requirements (Elliott et al. 1987). Consumers are ... for this grain and the human consumption of grown vegetation are not the only factors leading to soil erosion. The beef industry and our consumption of red meat impacts soil erosion as well. Of the total amount of grain that is grown in the US, 80% of it is fed to livestock. To support our meat ce...

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