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Humans have extensively used the coastal zone for fishing, tourism, transport of goods, water treatment, and housing. Agriculture has benefited from the exceptionally fertile grounds due to marine deposits. Approximately three billion people, half the world’s population, live and work within a couple of hundred kilometers of a coastline, notwithstanding the vulnerability of coastal areas to flooding.
Voice: English (US) - female voice
Formal groups usually organize and distribute work, coordinate activities, increase commitment, resolve conflicts, and conduct inquests. Estimates suggest most managers spend half of their working day in groups. Informal groups are usually structured more around the social needs of people than around the performance of tasks. Informal groups typically serve to satisfy the needs of affiliation and act as a forum to gain support.
Voice: English (US) - female voice
The possibilities for future energy production include fossil fuels, biofuels, solar, wind, hydro-energy, geothermal, and nuclear. Each of these sources has relative advantages and disadvantages. The problem is to produce enough sustainable energy while avoiding unacceptable environmental consequences, especially climate change. Informed choices will help prevent waste, avoid unnecessary disruptions in our lives, and avoid undesirable ecological effects.
Voice: English (US) - female voice
At the end of the last ice age, the earth’s average temperature increased and glaciers moved rapidly northward. Additionally, rainfall progressively decreased in Southwest Asia and Africa. Under the changed circumstances, humans were unable to sustain themselves throughout the year by hunting and foraging. The human groups, living on different continents, were forced to produce their own food, and farming began within a short span of time all around the globe.
Voice: English (US) - female voice
English was originally brought to what is now called Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers from northwest Germany, West Denmark, and the Netherlands. The language that we nowadays call English has been changed almost out of recognition by the passing of time, and even more influentially, the impact of other languages. It is estimated that words borrowed from other languages make up more than three-quarters of the English language.
Voice: English (US) - female voice
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