The answer is fertilizer. It makes your grass grow faster and healthier, but is grass the only thing it helps to grow? People may not know it, but fertilizers’ two main chemicals that help grass grow are called nitrates and phosphates. Nitrates and phosphates make your grass grow nice and green. But, when you fertilize your lawn too much, fertilize right before it rains, or if you live on the water, it is easy for left over nitrates and phosphates to trickle their way down into the ground water.
Abstract: This experiment was created to discover how effective Bentonite clay is in the removal of the contaminants known as Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs). The clay was first synthesized, then used in a side-by-side experiment with charcoal, which is known to be successful in the adsorption of PAHs and used as a standard. An absorption spectrum for a red dye with PAHs was used to determine how much of the PAHs the clay and charcoal adsorbed. Although the clay did in fact adsorb PAHs, the charcoal was much more effective. Introduction: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are organic compounds that are suspected to be human carcinogens1.
If an ideal pH level is 7 than the carbon was able to take our acidic water and make it more neutral. Coal works as a pH balancer for the earth’s soil and helps to filter out water as it passes through. The pH in the soil has a major impact on the nutrients that come from that soil. The more nutrients that are produced the better ecosystem will function. 4.
Daylight saving time offers a huge advantage for it eliminates danger, and instead employs security. Conservation of energy is wonderfully demonstrated through the employment of daylight saving time. Energy consumption is lessened which greatly impacts the preservation of the environment. This is evidenced by Source B, which states that electricity usage is reduced by about one percent during each day. By DST, if less energy is being consumed, the opportunities of mankind having a safer and more presentable environment are much higher.
Fracking: Let It Flow First, let me explain the process of hydraulic fracturing - fracking. Fracking is the process of harvesting natural gas from far beneath the earth's surface. This process uses horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing to release natural gas from shale beds by blasting the rock with high-pressure water and chemicals. This is not a new idea; oil companies have been doing this for over half a century. Natural gas is an excellent alternative to coal or oil because it burns much cleaner.
For maximum nutritional value they can be sprouted and eaten with salads or in sandwiches. Hemp leaves can also be added to these. Hempseed can also be ground into flour for baking, or for adding to smoothies, or made into hemp milk which is a nutritious dairy alternative. Hempseed is high in natural oils required for good brain function and development and safer than other choices, such as fish which has had radiation and mercury in it. Hemp oil is beneficial to skin health and brain development because it contains naturally high amounts of GLA and EFA’s Hemp powder is an excellent complete protein which naturally contains all the essential amino acids required by the human body.
Overall considering both the pros and cons, I believe fracking should be allowed in my state since the pros outweigh the conds. Overall it’s safer and more dependable than other fossil fuels in my opinion. A sinkhole is a hole in the ground that occurs either with erosion or water drainage. Considering the
When the Euphrates and Tigris rivers flood, the land eventually dries up and leaves behind rich mud and clay. This rich mud and clay made the land extremely fertile. The Sumerian people inhabited an area of the Mesopotamia that is called Plain of Shinar (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2011). The Sumerians established this area as their own by constructing homes and irrigation developments. With the help of the clay and mud, they constructed their homes and community.
An example of hard engineering is river straightening, this works by creating a smoother channel for faster flow to get water out of an area as quickly as possible. An example of where this has happened is on the Mississippi and the river was shortened by 150 km, however this does create problems further downstream. There are a number of benefits to soft engineering firstly soft engineering tends to be a lot cheaper, it cost less money to maintain than hard engineering and hard engineering is expensive and disrupts natural processes. For example afforestration and planning are very quick methods compared to hard-engineering methods Soft engineering is also a more sustainable management strategy than hard engineering because it has a lower economic cost and environmental impact. It is designed to work with natural environments’ and creates wetlands which are important for natural habitat.
It is also a weed suppresser to prevent other weeds from growing because it grows so fast and densely, it blocks out sunlight to other weeds that are trying to grow. This allows farmers to use hemp as a replacement for herbicides and reducing toxins into the ground and surrounding water sources. Hemp can be used to replace petroleum and plastic products and are still biodegradable so it reduces the amount dumped into landfills. Since hemp can be used to replace gasoline and petroleum essentially replacing oil this reduces the environmental risks and impacts of oil drilling. This is a major environmental impact made when off shore drilling accidents happen made seen to the public by the BP accident in April of 2010 where 200 million gallons of crude oil was “spewed” into the ocean.