When seafaring Europeans first encountered Easter Island they found a population of about 2,000 people scraping out a living on the barren island. Although the natives appeared to be from Polynesian ancestry, the natives that these first Europeans contacted not only had no idea that other human beings existed elsewhere on the planet, but their crude, leaky canoes could not possibly have made the journey to the island from elsewhere. Nor did they possess the skill, manpower, social structure or tools necessary to create the 200 giant heads that once stood upright on the island, let alone the 700 others that were abandoned in various stages of completion -- some in quarries, others laying abandoned on ancient
“Until my ghastly tale is told, this heart within me burns.”; a quote from Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the famous, longest major poem called The Rime of the Ancient Mariner which tells a story about Albatross. Midway Island, also known as Pihemanu, is an island in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean and located more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent where Albatross live and breed. Midway Atoll was used to be “Albatross’ paradise”, but now, it is a graveyard for them. Do you know why they die so easily? We can find numerous bottle caps, wires, metal or non-biodegradable plastics or materials, lighters or even a toothbrush inside their stomach – undigested; especially inside the Albatross’ babies.
APUSH Jamestown Letter 9/29/12 Dear beloved brother, I have arrived here safely at the Jamestown colony of our great homeland England and I have been here for three months now. The journey over was anything but pleasant, the conditions on the way over where god awful. As we departed for the colony our ships were stalled in the channel between England and France for nearly a month. Had the winds not turned in our favor I believe we would have returned soon as the passengers were becoming rowdy as we could still see home but had none of the benefits of being at home. As the winds shifted we proceeded on down into the warmth of the tropics.
Mauna Loa has an estimated time of six years between each eruption, but on March 25, 2009 The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory celebrated the 25th anniversary of the volcanoes last eruption in 1984. Mauna Loa is a shield volcano, the world’s largest, but although it’s active history the volcano has been quite for 2 and half decades. The crater at the mountains summit (Moku’aweoweo) is the main reason Mauna Loa has been erupting for 100,000 years if not more. Mauna Loa produces many types of flows including a’a, pahoehoe and lesser
Another result of this rivalry was a decline in membership for the UFW, in the late 70's it had a membership of about 100,000, in 1996 its membership was about 24,000 this is a major decline for the UFW. In the state of Washington the Union Nacional de Trabajadores led an alliance of four labor groups accusing fruit growers of not paying overtime pay, not providing safe working conditions, and not allowing the workers to organize without the fear of some type of retribution. There were about 45,000 workers involved in the case. Through NAFTA the Mexican Unions now have two complaints, This case and another one that is about a the Sprint Cell Phone company improperly closing a plant in California while a unionization drive was going
The inhabitants cut down the trees to build canoes and spiritual statues at a sustainable rate but, with the rat population at twenty million on a sixteen mile long island, the trees could not reproduce effectively. In turn, the tree loss prevented the construction of canoes for fishing so the natives hunted down the entire land bird population and begun the struggle for survival. The introduction of an invasive species, alone, caused the indigenous of Easter Island to face starvation. Today it isn’t just an island of people that face extinction; it is the entire world population that’s nearing its downfall and, we are struggling with a myriad of factors contributing to environmental degradation. The poison from the dart frog of the Peruvian rainforest contains a chemical that is the basis for a compound that is vital for the process of transplanting human organs.
(Wikipedia, 2012). The second theory is that the overpopulation caused deforestation (Tom Sever, NASA Archeologist) and then a drought made it hard to sustain life. The second theory has more evidence to support the theory, in fact decades of research has shown that “the Maya had completely transformed the land they lived by turning jungles into vast area of plains, filled with cities, farms and an ever growing
A tsunami “wave train” may come as surges five minutes to an hour apart. The cycle may be marked by the repeated retreat and advance of the ocean. Despite a lag of up to several hours between the earthquake and the impact of the tsunami, nearly all of the victims were taken completely by surprise because there were no tsunami warning systems in the Indian Ocean to detect tsunamis or to warn the general populace living around the ocean. The Indian Ocean tsunami travelled as far as 3,000 miles to Africa and still arrived with sufficient force to kill people and destroy property.
In fact between 1780 and 1980 sixty acres of wetland were destroyed every hour (ODW). Ignoring the importance of wetlands has lead to half of the wetlands in the entire United States being drained or filled. Ohio has had 90% of its original wetlands destroyed; this is only trumped by California in largest percent of wetland destroyed. Wetlands are a valuable resource in our ecosystem that seems to receive little discussion with most environmentalists. A piece of land is determined to be a wetland by three characteristic.
DISASTER | BACKGROUND | SHORT TERM SOCIAL | LONG TERM SOCIAL | SHORT TERM ECONOMIC | LONG TERM ECONOMIC | SHORT TERM PHYSICAL | LONG TERM PHYSICAL | IMMEDIATE RESPONSE | LONG TERM RESPONSE | Mount Nyiragongo Volcanic Eruption 2002 | * Active stratovolcano in East African Rift DRC * 3470m high with 2km wide crater and lava lake inside * Proximal to towns of Goma & Lake Kivu * Eruption 17 Jan 2002 * Several months before was increase in seismic and fumarolic activity. Many stayed near site due to lack of education * 13 km fissure south side * UN scientists lead 400000 evac | * Goma split into 2 by lava flows * 4500 (40%) buildings destroyed * 120000 homeless * 14 villages destroyed * 2 hospitals destroyed | * 400000 fled, over half to Rwandan border * Looting in Goma after people left * Cholera outbreak at refugee camp as no clean water or electricity * Death toll: 147 * Water treatment plant destroyed not helping | * Lava crossed the runway at Goma meaning airport was unusable * Destruction of crops was bad for local economy as only real mean of income * 80% of economic area destroyed | * Attracts more volcanologists to the area and adding a tiny amount of money to local economy. Most stay enclosed within labs and round the volcano | * Land around volcano was ruined – a fifth of Goma | * Formation of a lava lake within the crater with constant eruptions now | * The destruction of the runway meant no big aircrafts could deliver aid * UN supplied 220 tonnes of aid to refugees * Poor infrastructure meant aid could not make it to most vulnerable * Fears of endemics like cholera and diarrhoea just avoided * Goma volcano Observation was updated with help from international community hopefully reducing the chance of a repeat event | Mount St Helens Volcanic Eruption 1980 | * Active stratovolcano in