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Clean Coal? Myth or Reality. The year is 2017 in Trumps first presidency where Trump began using a term "clean coal". While the term does sound nice most Americans have never heard of that term before and where rightly confused on what "clean coal" was. "Clean coal" was not just some made up term Trump made up on the spot but this discussion of "clean coal" started back in 2008 sites Tom LoBianco of the Washington Post. We as a society need energy like heat and power to survive and it is through our use of non renewable resources like coal are we able to thrive. However that usage does not come without a cost as the consumption of non renewable resources let out carbon dioxide that cause green house effects. That is why as discussions of climate change begin to heat up demanding change in how we provide our energy Trump has started to push for "clean coal". "Clean coal" refers and is "understood to mean coal plants that...

All of us need food, water, and air to survive. All of these things we consume in our life's are called natural resources and are made from nature. Present day there are so many humans that populate this world a lot of these resources are being used. This is where we run into a issues over environmental challenges and how we maintain our resources for sustaining life. There are two terms used for the natural resources consumed and are labeled renewable and non renewable resources. Renewable resources include water, air, and trees (1:11) these are all resources that can be made again fast. Non renewable are now resources that take a long time "even millions of years" (8:00). We can start to struggle with maintaining these resources from problems and are referred to as a unsustainable situation (13:13) which can happen from overpopulation and overconsumption of these resources that is why we have made resources like synthetics and recycled used up items, this is known as r...

Looking at the metrics for a more developed country provided by the “2024 World Population Data Sheet” a developed country has an average of 9 births per thousand and a GNI per Capita of 61,752 as shown in figure 1 page 2. South Korea matches that description with a 5 birth rate per thousand and Gross national income of 55,040. South Korea is right below the average of more developed countries and we can figure out why when we look at South Korea's population growth (its natural rate of increase) which is at -0.2, solidified by a fertility rate of .07 kids per 1 household. Looking at the demographic transition model provided by “MUTITI et al 2 population ecology” we can see South Korea has many similarities described as what is called Stage III the mature/industrial stage “many women join the workforce …This leads to a drop in birth rates and smaller family sizes. Death rates also continue to drop during Stage III as medicine, sanitation and food security continue to improve.”...

Work Cited Freedman, B. (2018). Chapter 4 Energy and Ecosystems. In Environmental Science a Canadian perspective (pp. 64–76). essay, Dalhousie University Libraries.

  3,097 November, 3,501 December, 1,997 January 3,097+3,501+1,997= 8,595/3 months = 2,865 gallons/month on average 2,865/2= 1432.5/person/month 1432.5/30= 47.75 gallons per day  Name of Water Calculator URL My Per Person Usage Homewaterworks https://home-water-works.org/calculator 34.2 gallons/day per person Cascade Water Alliance Water Usage Calculator - Cascade Water 129 gallons/day Per person Southwest Florida Water Management District   Water Use Calculator | WaterMatters.org 62 gallons/day  Per person      What is very interesting is that when looking at the average use of waters of gallons it was constantly 200 gallons below the average. The bill then goes on to share how I am currently using less water compared to the same time last year as one individual has moved out during that time. Past this when looking at the average gallons of water used by other sites such as Southwest Florida Water Management District put me at 20 more gallons the...

Original Picture Second Picture Google Maps Earth View (2025) Google Earth (2025) Problem     Prior to the 1940s Grinnell Glacier located in Glacier National park was once known as one of the parks largest glaciers. However past the mid 1900s officials noticed the once grand alpine glacier started reducing in size. Now current day Grinnell Glacier has lost a considerable amount of size and has seen a massive increase of the mountains river right below. Grinnell Glacier was also classified as a alpine glacier seen as it was formed on a mountains valley.  Explanation As global warming continues to rise the temperature of the Earth each year winter becomes every so slightly hotter. This is very important in discussing the life of a Glacier as winter is the time for Glaciers to regain all the lost snow mass from the summer. With less time to recover and hotter winters Glacier such as Grinnell have seen a dramatic decrease in mass over the last 100 years. Seen in the imag...