CONVERSATION OF TREES

Trees are beautiful and useful gifts of nature. Trees are great friends of men. Trees
give us flowers, fruits, timber, bamboo, fuels, etc. We can rest under the cool shade
of a tree. We get wood from the trees to make furniture, doors, windows, etc.

Trees are also a great source of materials for paper, rubber, gums, herbs and
medicine plants. Forest brings clouds and cause rainfall. Trees prevent soil erosion.
They protect us from severe weather

Importance of Trees: Trees are a part and parcel of earthly life. All life directly or
indirectly owes its existence to them.

Trees release oxygen which we need for our life. They also absorb the
carbon-dioxide.

Trees are the natural habitat of many animals and birds.

Trees help make the land fertile. We get good crops out of fertile land.

They are the sources of the fruits and flowers.

They offer us cool shade during summer.

During rainy season, we take shelter under the trees.

Trees and plants are the sources of many supply life-saving drugs.

They prevent land erosion and guard us against pollution. Thus, trees keep
up the ecological balance.

Trees protect us from inclement wind also.

Conclusion: Thus, trees play an important role in our life. Felling of trees disturbs
the eco-system. We should preserve trees and plants with great care

Animal Rights
The animal rights are usually derived from the human right case. It is argued that
the non-human animals have rights and that there is no morally relevant difference
between the adult mammals and the non-human animals and hence adult mammals
must have rights too. The main reason behind the argument that the animals have
same rights and deserve them as the other human being is that they have similar
levels of the biological complexity; like human beings, animals are also aware and
conscious that they exist. The non-human animals also know what is happening to
them; they also dislike and like some things like the human beings as well as
making conscious choices. These are some issues that are behind fighting for the
animal rights. The non-human animals also live in such a way that they give
themselves best quality of life as human beings do. There are still some issues like
animals planning their life by the animals as well as minding about their length and
quality of their life. it is even more demanding for the animals to be given the
rights they deserve by not being exploited. Animals therefore have inherent values
like the human beings and thus they are entitled to same rights to human beings.

It is also ethical that the animal beings are not supposed to be hunted for food at all
cost. The animals also have rights to live without their lives beings terminated
because of food. The animals should also not be used for entertainment or even
taken to zoos for the purpose of tourism. This can be ethically argued by the
concept that the animals and human rights have a same fundamental right; this is
the right of being treated with a lot of respect as a creature which has inherent
value. Therefore, it is important for the animals to be treated as living creatures but
not to be used for entertaining others or even be used by human beings to achieve
their needs (BBC ethics guide).

Many animals have been used for research in many laboratories thus some of their
rights being taken away. There has been a lot of controversy behind this idea and
process. It has been concluded that animals should not be used as specimens for
testing; this is because some of results turn out to be fatal or deadly. It is the right
of the animals to live without their life being interfered with at any moment. Some
people use some animals like dogs, cats and even monkeys as their pets in homes.
Ethically, this is like slavery to animals which are confined within home compound
without being released to do their own things. Like human beings, the animal need
to be given the right to live and do what they feel is right as they also have senses
just like the human beings.

SEVERE FLOOD TYPES

A river flood occurs when water levels rise over the top of river banks due to
excessive rain from tropical systems making landfall, persistent thunderstorms
over the same area for extended periods of time, combined rainfall and snowmelt,
or an ice jam.

A coastal flood, or the inundation of land areas along the coast, is caused by higher
than average high tide and worsened by heavy rainfall and onshore winds (i.e.,
wind blowing landward from the ocean). Places like Charleston, South Carolina,
and Savannah, Georgia, experience impacts from shallow coastal flooding several
times a year because of coastal development and lower elevation.

Coastal flooding is caused by higher than average high tide and worsened by heavy
rainfall and onshore winds (i.e., wind blowing landward from the ocean).

Storm surge is an abnormal rise in water level in coastal areas, over and above the
regular astronomical tide, caused by forces generated from a severe storm's wind,
waves, and low atmospheric pressure. Storm surge is extremely dangerous,
because it is capable of flooding large coastal areas. Extreme flooding can occur in
coastal areas particularly when storm surge coincides with normal high tide,
resulting in storm tides reaching up to 20 feet or more in some cases. Along the
coast, storm surge is often the greatest threat to life and property from a hurricane.
In the past, large death tolls have resulted from the rise of the ocean associated
with many of the major hurricanes that have made landfall. Hurricane Katrina
(2005) is a prime example of the damage and devastation that can be caused by
surge. At least 1500 persons lost their lives during Katrina and many of those
deaths occurred directly, or indirectly, as a result of storm surge.

A flash flood is caused by heavy or excessive rainfall in a short period of time,

generally less than six hours. Flash floods are usually characterized by raging
torrents after heavy rains that rip through river beds, urban streets, or mountain
canyons sweeping everything before them. They can occur within minutes or a few
hours of excessive rainfall. They can also occur even if no rain has fallen, for
instance after a levee or dam has failed, or after a sudden release of water by a
debris or ice jam.

Areas damaged by wildfires are known as burn scars and are particularly
susceptible to flash floods and debris flows during rainstorms. Rainfall that is
normally absorbed by vegetation can run off almost instantly, causing creeks and
drainage areas to flood much earlier and with higher magnitude than normal.

Inland flooding occurs when moderate precipitation accumulates over several

days, intense precipitation falls over a short period, or a river overflows because of
an ice or debris jam or dam or levee failure. Hurricane Floyd (1999), aided by
Tropical Storm Dennis (1999), caused widespread severe flooding that caused the
majority of the $3 to 6 billion in damage reported after those storms.