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A ‘delicate dance’ to save coastal lands
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/7293660.html
Houston Chronicle
November 13, 2010
V. C. fossil fuel resources and use
VII. B. global warming
In Galveston, Texas the coastline is changing: the water is rising and the island is shrinking, beaches and wetlands are disappearing, and the barrier island is eroding at a fast rate. This is threatening wild life habitat and the eroding barrier island is reducing the protection it provides. According to this article, the water is rising because of warmer climate caused by carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gasses. Also the galvezton bay region is sinking because of pumping of groundwater, oil and gas extraction and natural forces such as faulting. This article is pro-environmental because they think that humans have caused the water rising and loss of wetlands. They also plan to rebuild the beaches and to move back houses from the coastlines and wetlands and to only allow high rise buildings to be built in the mainland.
Signs of Possible Living and Using Equilibrium of Reefs
http://scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/in-the-remote-pacific-glimpses-of-pristine-corals/?ref=science
A group of scientist from the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation have traveled to the remote Line Islands in the extreme Central Pacific. There, they have been studying the interaction between the natives and their use and conservation of the reef. They team is spending a month there, trying to find out the proper balance of using a reef because the reef just off the coast of Fanning Island (part of the islands) is thriving.
This was written by Stuart Sandin, an assistant professor at the Center, for the New York Times while he is on location. It was written November 12, 2010.
The bias in this article could perhaps be that since the purpose of his expedition was too find the proper balance of a thriving reef, he has to say what great condition the reef is in. Also, Sandin could be an optimist and want to make the article have a very positive outlook. It is pro environmentalist because he is researching how to make a balance, to hopefully spread the knowledge.
I. C. Global Water Resources and Use- conservation
II. A. Ecosystem Structure- major aquatic biome
IV. A. 1. Agriculture- Feeding a growing population
A group of scientist from the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation have traveled to the remote Line Islands in the extreme Central Pacific. There, they have been studying the interaction between the natives and their use and conservation of the reef. They team is spending a month there, trying to find out the proper balance of using a reef because the reef just off the coast of Fanning Island (part of the islands) is thriving.
This was written by Stuart Sandin, an assistant professor at the Center, for the New York Times while he is on location. It was written November 12, 2010.
The bias in this article could perhaps be that since the purpose of his expedition was too find the proper balance of a thriving reef, he has to say what great condition the reef is in. Also, Sandin could be an optimist and want to make the article have a very positive outlook. It is pro environmentalist because he is researching how to make a balance, to hopefully spread the knowledge.
I. C. Global Water Resources and Use- conservation
II. A. Ecosystem Structure- major aquatic biome
IV. A. 1. Agriculture- Feeding a growing population
Solar Power Towers Coming to California
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/solar-power-towers-california/
Secretary of Interior, Ken Salazar, has approved a solar tower project estimated to generate 370 megawatts of clear energy and 1100 employment opportunities. Expected to be finished in 2013, the project uses mirror fields directing light from all angles to a tower. The tower contains solar boilers, which are heated from the redirected sunlight. The steam from the boilers drives a turbine, producing electricity.
So far, this project, operated by the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, is the only project that will benefit all parties. This single project is part of a larger effort by the Administration to help build a clean energy economy, expected to generate approximately 1124 megawatts of clean energy. That energy has the ability to light between 337000 and 843000 houses. The use of clean energy projects also reduces the production of carbon dioxide by other means of generating electricity.
The Solar Tower project is arranged to occupy 7300 mitigation acres of the Mojave Desert in Southern California. However, the overseeing company has to abide by state rules such as the US Fish and Wildlife Services plan by testing desert tortoises for diseases, monitoring and relocating them for their safety.
This article contains no bias. The author only included facts, and there were no opinions.
V.
A. Energy Concepts
G. Renewable Energy
Secretary of Interior, Ken Salazar, has approved a solar tower project estimated to generate 370 megawatts of clear energy and 1100 employment opportunities. Expected to be finished in 2013, the project uses mirror fields directing light from all angles to a tower. The tower contains solar boilers, which are heated from the redirected sunlight. The steam from the boilers drives a turbine, producing electricity.
So far, this project, operated by the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, is the only project that will benefit all parties. This single project is part of a larger effort by the Administration to help build a clean energy economy, expected to generate approximately 1124 megawatts of clean energy. That energy has the ability to light between 337000 and 843000 houses. The use of clean energy projects also reduces the production of carbon dioxide by other means of generating electricity.
The Solar Tower project is arranged to occupy 7300 mitigation acres of the Mojave Desert in Southern California. However, the overseeing company has to abide by state rules such as the US Fish and Wildlife Services plan by testing desert tortoises for diseases, monitoring and relocating them for their safety.
This article contains no bias. The author only included facts, and there were no opinions.
V.
A. Energy Concepts
G. Renewable Energy
Opposition to Power Line at a Fjord Runs Deep
By John Tagliabue
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/world/europe/11norway.html?_r=1&ref=earth
This article discusses the multitude of feelings surrounding the installation of a high-tension power line across the fjords of Norway. The power company considers it necessary because in the cold winter, the existing power grid for the city of Bergen is stretched to its limits. Most people think that the 120-foot tall pylons that would support the wire would ruin the natural landscape, one of the most beautiful in the world. The alternative is a wire that would run along the floor of a deep valley, and through the water. While most people consider this an acceptable compromise, it would cost 4 times as much as the 150 million above ground wire. Others believe the wire is unnecessary, while supporters of the above ground wire consider it to be a necessary, but unfortunate, measure.
This article was published in the New York Times on November 10th, 2010
The article seems to have some subtle bias. When it mentions the opinion of the power company CEO, the author mentions that he is sipping coffee and munching waffles in his 153 year old wooden hotel. The people who the author interviews for opinions against the power line are artists, small family business owners, and farmers. The people who provide the opinions in the article are carefully chosen to paint the installation of the power line in a negative light.
I-C. Freshwater use
IV-B. Forestry
IV-D. Development, sustainable land-use strategies
V-B. Future energy needs
V-E. Hydroelectric power
VII-C. Maintenance through conservation
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/world/europe/11norway.html?_r=1&ref=earth
This article discusses the multitude of feelings surrounding the installation of a high-tension power line across the fjords of Norway. The power company considers it necessary because in the cold winter, the existing power grid for the city of Bergen is stretched to its limits. Most people think that the 120-foot tall pylons that would support the wire would ruin the natural landscape, one of the most beautiful in the world. The alternative is a wire that would run along the floor of a deep valley, and through the water. While most people consider this an acceptable compromise, it would cost 4 times as much as the 150 million above ground wire. Others believe the wire is unnecessary, while supporters of the above ground wire consider it to be a necessary, but unfortunate, measure.
This article was published in the New York Times on November 10th, 2010
The article seems to have some subtle bias. When it mentions the opinion of the power company CEO, the author mentions that he is sipping coffee and munching waffles in his 153 year old wooden hotel. The people who the author interviews for opinions against the power line are artists, small family business owners, and farmers. The people who provide the opinions in the article are carefully chosen to paint the installation of the power line in a negative light.
I-C. Freshwater use
IV-B. Forestry
IV-D. Development, sustainable land-use strategies
V-B. Future energy needs
V-E. Hydroelectric power
VII-C. Maintenance through conservation
Turn off the Lights
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/us/12ttenergy.html?_r=1&ref=earth
New York Times November 11, 2010
UT has found away of using energy efficiently while also cutting the bill down. During games, the UT arena uses a lot of lighting, so John Graham started turning unnecessary things off and quickly earned $1000.
This article isn't very biased as much as it is informative. It is written from an environmentalist point of view but I think that it was more of an attempt at saving money.
V. Energy Resources and Consumption
B. Energy Consumptions
F. Energy Conservation
New York Times November 11, 2010
UT has found away of using energy efficiently while also cutting the bill down. During games, the UT arena uses a lot of lighting, so John Graham started turning unnecessary things off and quickly earned $1000.
This article isn't very biased as much as it is informative. It is written from an environmentalist point of view but I think that it was more of an attempt at saving money.
V. Energy Resources and Consumption
B. Energy Consumptions
F. Energy Conservation
High Cost of clean energy
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/science/earth/08fossil.html?_r=1&ref=earth
November 7, 2010
New York Times
Wind farmers are having a harder time providing energy for clients because government institutions are saying that renewable energy is getting too expensive. Virginia state officials view the lower costs of natural gas energy as better for the state than the slightly higher cost of wind energy. Around the country governing bodies are switching away from higher-cost renewable energy, because the economic value of the energy is valued over the environmental impact. In Virginia the average electric bill would only increase 0.2%, a government official was cited saying that this increase is "unreasonably high". The author of the article favors the use of wind energy and views the decision to switch away from renewable energy as the wrong decision, the author is correctly weighing the environmental and economic issues.
V. Energy Resources and Consumption
A. Energy Concepts (Energy forms)
B. Energy Consumption (present global energy use)
F. Energy Conservation (energy efficiency)
G. Renewable Energy (wind energy)
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