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Blue Poison Dart Frog- Dendrobates azureus

For my Environmental Science class, my class was put into groups of three. My two other "group-mates", if you will, and I were assigned the Rain forest (we had to pick a specific place- we chose later the...

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Rain Forests - the Burning Issue

Deforestation is one of the largest contributors to climate change.Here are some very poignant facts:-1. Over half of the world's plant & animal species are found in rainforests.2. the Amazon forest releases...

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Backyard Vacations

One of my most enjoyable, memorable and best vacations, was one I didn’t have to leave home to take. I called it – actually them, as there was more than one – my weekend vacations. I mentioned in a...

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Now or Never - Why We Must Act

        We must act Now or Never, an account about how serious global warming is. It's by Tim Flannery, a distinguished writer-scientist who is also a professor at Macquarie University in Sidney. The seriousness of the situation cannot be over-estimated.

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How to make a rainforest diorama

This week, my daughter was assigned a rainforest diorama to make. Her grade on this assignment counts as a science test. This is a little odd, I think, as the skills necessary to make an effective diorama...

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Where is David? Olympic Peninsula rainforests and rugged mountains

A physiographic region has similar landforms and evolutionary history.  There are eight such regions in the United States.   I thought New Mexico had a lot, at six, but the State of Washington hosts...

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Rainforest Alliance Certified Food Products

Rainforest Alliance certified coffee, bananas, tea, fruit. Find which products at your grocery store are Rainforest Alliance certified and help farmers and save the rainforest. List of Rainforest Alliance certified food products and brands.

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The Harpy Eagle Raptor of the rain Forest

Early explorers in South America must have been stunned at the sight of this huge bird. They were so impressed that they named it after a frightful half-avian, half- woman monster of Greek...

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Tattoo Design Body Art - A History Of

The history of Tattoo Body Art goes back thousands of years, approximately 20,000 years BC. Tattooing has occurred in antiquity in cultures that were more advanced such as the, Ancient Africans, (Old Kingdom)...

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OXIGEN-INVESTMENTS

 oxigen investments plc is working with an increasing number of SIPP Trustees and IFAs as well as retaining our own specialist pension/SIPP adviser to assist with this process if our clients wish to do...

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