There is a growing issue of North Atlantic whales and Humpback whales being forced to move around in search of cooler waters and food. Researchers at Mount Desert Rock in Maine observe the surrounding sea looking for distinctive whale spouts. The number of whales spotted by researchers were noticeably low this past summer, causing scientists […]
Month: October 2017
Is there hope for Coral Reefs?
During the last few years the rate of coral bleaching had been getting higher due to an increase of water temperatures across the world. Today two thirds of the reef ecosystems in the world have been impacted by bleaching. In the article ,The Great Barrier Reef can repair, with a little help from science, the […]
Not so Permanent Permafrost
I chose to write about this topic because I want people to realize the harm that we are doing to the planet and how this harm will eventually turn on us. The article states that this carbon sink in the arctic and sub-arctic area has been built up for thousands of years and the fact […]
Is Climate Change Meat-ing Our Expectations?
Commonly, people are under the impression that eating only grass fed cows is aiding the rapid climate change our globe is experiencing through the reduction of common feedlots*. This is mainly because feedlots increase the rate of nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, and methane emitted from cows in a confined space. Because of this, people have […]
Your Home Could Be Flooded Soon
On August 29, a storm came up the east coast and hit the north east hard. Lots of streets in the Hamptons were swamped. Within the coming weeks, there were five other high tides that flooded local streets, which made meteorologists feel uneasy about the weather. These floods are just an example […]
Solving Climate Change With…Lasers?
Look around. What do you see? Maybe a car, maybe a building, maybe a person. Look deeper, can you see anything else? The truth is that there are billions and billions of microscopic aerosol particles all around in the atmosphere. Every time you take a breath, you inhale approximately ten million of these particles. The […]
Deep Freeze: Life Discovered as Massive Iceberg Splits
In July 2017, one of the largest icebergs ever recorded broke off from the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. Marine Biologists are scrambling to travel to the iceberg to take advantage of this rare occurence before the ecosystem begins to deteriorate, but it is incrediby difficult to arrange a trip to this […]
Ocean Warming is No Joke, but Ice Sheets are Cracking Up
Published in “Discover” magazine, the article “To Study Global Warming, Researchers Heated the Ocean Themselves,” describes how large plastic slabs were placed on the seafloor near the Rothera Research Station on Adelaide Island, Antarctica for nine months. These slabs were threaded with heating coils and panels that would warm water 1 to 2 degrees Celsius […]
Is Overfishing of Top Predators Leading to Climate Change?
Studies done by marine biologists at Bournemouth University have determined how large-scale ecosystem effects can occur as a result of predator removal. One of their focuses has included how this predator removal can lead to increased production of carbon dioxide in the ocean. Since most commercially caught fish are predators, overfishing/whaling has resulted in a […]
Solar Panels: The Indirect Costs of Electricity
Why Solar Panels: After learning about all the ways in which people deplete the Earth’s resources, I wanted to learn about how we also work to conserve them. So, I began to research solar panels. I was expecting my research on solar panels to brighten my day, however, I was wrong. While solar panels are a better […]