In a campaign that won gold for Best Use of Video, BBC StoryWorks produced an emotional and informative film documenting the clean-up of an abandoned fish farm by the NGO Healthy Seas in the waters surrounding Ithaca, Greece. The documentary focused mainly on the NGO's work, linking the ...
landforms. These are supposed to be fairly flat areas sharply higher than the land surrounding it. Plateaus are existent in every continent and cover almost one third of the earth’s periphery. The Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, located in central Asia is the highest and the largest plateau in the ...
They are not jealous of each other and do not live in fear of losing their position. 8. I was born in New York but have lived only in some small areas of the city. 9. The reconsideration of the significance and importance of many things that one had taken for granted in t...
While the use of plastic materials has generated huge societal benefits, the ‘plastic age’ comes with downsides: One issue of emerging concern is the accumulation of plastics in the aquatic environment. Here, so-called microplastics (MP), fragments smaller than 5 mm, are of special concern be...
lightning, and death) is a bit of an ecological oddity. Native to the freshwater rivers and lakes in the middle ofMexico City, these unusualsalamandersare extraordinary in more ways than one. When threatened by predators, they can shift colors slightly to blend in with the surrounding environmen...
Along the coast are soaring cliffs and the bluest seas you'll ever set eyes upon. Delightful little villages, filled with cottages painted orange, lemon, and peach, climb their way up hillsides, while surrounding the villages are picturesque olive groves, lemon orchards, and vineyards. It doesn...
There are several points I would like to make around this particular finding of the radial patterns of the roadways here.The first is that these same radial patterns are found around major cities in the United States……and Mexico, where the examples are of cities appearing at the junctions ...
What were the positive and negative effects of European imperialism? Did the colonization affect the Philippines? What are the negative impacts of imperialism for Europe? How did the seas surrounding ancient Greece influence its development? How did the Peloponnesian War affect the Greek city-states?
In addition, plastics contain a multitude of chemical additives [[5]] and adsorb organic contaminants from the surrounding media [[6]]. Since these compounds can transfer to organisms upon ingestion, MP act as vectors for other organic pollutants [[7]] and are, therefore, a source of ...
The port recorded a 3.6% YoY increase in container volumes from January to August of this year totalling 32.14 million TEU. The port is linked with the Yangtze River, reaching into multiple provinces of China. Thanks to the extensive access to Chinese seas and the rest of the world, the ...