Cities of the Future

Read this short article and answer the following questions.
1. How much waste does New York produce in an hour? How could this waste be used in the future?
2. How may buildings be built in the future? Do you think that this method of building will be practical?

Grey Wolves in Yellowstone

Read this article about the effects of the reintroduction of the Grey Wolf into Yellowstone National Park, and answer the following questions:
1) Discuss the effects of the reintroduction of the wolf into Yellowstone, and why this species has created these changes.
2) Why, according to scientists, is the documentation of the reintroduction a "rare, almost unique, opportunity?"

Wildfires in the Mid-West

Read this article on wildfires in the Midwest over the past 20 years and answer these questions.

1. Why can't burnt forests regenerate as fast as they previously have been known to do and how do scientists know that?

2. What is different between the fires occurring in the past 20 years and fires earlier in the regions history and have humans had an influence on this difference in the fires?

Read  this article  to the end of paragraph 7 ending with the words "about 125,000" years ago then answer these questions.

1.How come the Dead sea has been shrinking so rapidly? Is it all due to human usage?

2.Why are researchers so interested in continuing to drill and finding out more about this area?

Anasazi of Chaco Canyon

read this article and answer these questions

1. what allowed the Anasazi to live for so long in a dry climate?

2. from the reading, what conclusions can be made about the Anasazi disappearance, and what could have helped prevent it?