Burj Dubai is set to be the world’s tallest building and the centerpiece of the Gulf regions most prestigious urban development, entitled Downtown Dubai. The Arabic meaning for the word Burj is ‘tower’, which gives Burj Dubai a meaning of ‘Dubai Tower’ or ‘ Tower of Dubai’. Its exact height hasn’t been disclosed but it has been confirmed that it will be over 700 meters tall and its design was influenced by the six petal desert flower.
Burj Dubai is being constructed on Sheikh Zayed Road, just after the first interchange (Defense Roundabout) and it will be surrounded by a man-made lake. It will also be surrounded by a combination of residential, commercial, hotel, entertainment and leisure outlets, along with open green spaces, water features, and pedestrian boulevards.
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Over 120km of Lebanon’s coastlines have been damaged by oil spills only to recover after 10 years from such massive environmental disaster. Taking in to consideration that the fishing community will be hit for at least two or three years before the ecosystem re-establishes itself, warnings from Marine experts say that the spill could pose a cancer risk to people living in the affected area.Until there is a complete ceasefire no equipments, companies or labor can handle any clean-up operation. The more time wasted to tackle the problem the more time will be required to resolve the issue.The spill caused by Israeli bombing of the Jiyyeh power station killed large quantities of fish along Lebanon’s shores and now over two million inhabitants of Beirut are at risks from “toxic spray”.Yet officials from UNEP still believe that it’s too early to assess the potential environmental and health impact before conducting any sample analysis. Meanwhile, latest satellite images showed the oil slick was continuing to spread across the eastern Mediterranean Sea, threatening the coastlines of Turkey and possibly Cyprus.
Oil spills pose a dangerous ecological hazard to the environment, which are unpredictable and uncontrollable. They are thorough and indiscriminant killers that effect every organism in the impacted area. Oil spill impact, behavior and clean up are dictated by several factors including the type of oil involved and its toxicity, physical factors such as weather and topographical conditions, and availability of equipment and a well prepared spill response plan. The only way to control the impact of oil is to understand these contributing components and to improve current ways of control. Humans create oil spills thus, need to be controlled by humans.
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