When we talk about climate change, it often provokes conversation about the future and what it will look like. There’s talk of models and clocks and predictions. Much of the focus is on how much we really need to care and how much change we need to make. How many toxins can we pump into […]
Green Sea Turtles Surrounding the warm coastline of Raine Island off the Great Barrier Reef, hundreds of Green Sea Turtles wait to nest their eggs. At their peak, 60,000 females will nest in this area along with thousands of other females around the world. Weighing in about 300 bounds, with the ability to live upwards […]
A Melting Planet: glacier regression and rising sea levels Trift Glacier, Switzerland. Left (2006), Right (2015). Photo by Extreme Ice Survey Glaciers around the world are melting. Why should we care? Well, let’s first take a look at the United States. Almost 40% of our population lives in a coastal area. That means 40% of […]
Every hour, we lose about a football field of Louisiana Wetlands to the ocean. This loss is caused by a combination of factors, some natural and some man-made, and is leading to an ongoing environmental crisis that is already having extreme ramifications on not only native species but also human populations living in the area. Unchecked, […]
https://youtu.be/UPS-eYNrKYw The iconic inhabitants of Antarctica Antarctica is the coldest, driest, windiest place on Earth. Its harsh climate sees winter temperatures as low as -60 degrees Celsius (-76 degrees Fahrenheit). These extreme temperatures, however, do not make it immune to the effects of a warming planet. In fact, this frozen world is home to […]
There are currently an estimated 1,300 endangered or threatened animal species in North America alone, whose numbers have been severely affected by human activity. Globally, in just the past five centuries, we’ve witnessed the extinction of an equivalent of almost two species per year. That rough estimate only includes species of our knowledge. It’s crucial […]
Lungs of the World For the last three years, the Amazon rainforest–often called the “Lungs of the World”–has been burning. In 2020 alone, more than 19 million acres of forest were destroyed by fires that devastated the world’s largest rainforest (Vox). This destruction has caused a feedback loop of heating and drying that is only […]
Films from the 80s, such as Bladerunner, predicted that we’d have flying cars and infinite, sky-high architectural structures. Our supposed, imminent reality is also shown in Avatar, an imaginative film that showed thriving life only outside of Earth. The reason movies are thought-provoking is that they imprint your memory with possible futures. It can be […]
Imagine yourself on a warm sunny beach, palm trees swaying overhead and crystal clear waves breaking along the coast. You look out at the horizon—baby blue for miles on end. It seems like paradise. Yet this idyllic tropical getaway is hiding a growing ecological cancer. Unbeknownst to the casual onlooker, just beneath the water and […]
The phrase “climate change” provokes a different response in everyone. Some worry about the future for their children and humanity, others worry about the impending political effects, some don’t believe in it at all. The one thing that most can agree on is the fact that the environment will be forever changed. For humans, this […]
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