Following a century of fire suppression in western North America, managers use forest restoration treatments to reduce fuel loads and reintroduce key processes like fire. However, annual area burned by wildfire frequently outpaces the application of rest
BURNING ISSUE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AN UPSTATE NEW YORK PAPER MILL THAT WANTS TO BURN TIRES FOR FUEL RUNS INTO WORRIED VERMONTERS WHO FEAR THAT PREVAILING WINDS WILL CARRY DANGEROUS CHEMICALS ACROSS LAKE CHAMPLAIN AND FAR INTO NEW ENGLAND?STEPHEN KIERNAN...
When you sit back to watch a meteor shower, you're actually seeing the pieces of comet debris heat up as they enter the atmosphere and burn up in a bright burst of light, streaking a vivid path across the sky as they travel at 37 miles (59 kilometers) per second, according to NASA....
As a W2 wage earner, there's really no way around this enormous annual tax bill. Due to the SALT (State And Local Tax) limit of $10,000, high-income earners in high income tax states such as California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Oregon, Minnesota, and Iowa lose out. Before...
Country-of-origin (COO) research highlights the influence of a brand’s origin country on consumer decision-making (Hulland et al.,1996). The conceptualization of brand origin is a contentious issue that has attracted significant research interest in the international marketing literature (Magnusson ...
Fecal impaction is when stool gets stuck in the large intestine. It’s usually seen in untreated constipation. You need to be treated immediately.
Questions 1 to 5 refer to the talk in this section. At the end of the talk you will be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the talk. ? 1. Which of the following statements about offices is NOT true according to the talk?
Some scientists warn that ice near the Earth’s Poles may indeed be melting. This “polar meltdown” may be the first sign that the Earth is heating up. We could be in very serious trouble if this trend continues. It is estimated that a meltdown of as little as 10 percent of Antarcti...
People think fraud is a little thing on the margins. 2020 was step one at breaking that “it can’t be real” but many in the establishment and out really want to deny it and go back to sleep. The entire “it’s time to talk of something else” is indicative of this. No, ...
John LennonLives Like This,” arrived on March 4th, 1966. If the Jesus comment was regarded at all in the 2000-word profile, it was mostly met with bemusement. “In England, nobody took any notice,” Lennonreflected in 1974. “They know this guy’s blabbing off – who is he?” For...