^(WWF) By: Brendan Boyd March 25th, 2024 Estimated Read Time: 3-5 minutes Few changes are as rapid and destructive as the melting of glaciers and the ensuing development of post-glacial ecosystems, as the globe struggles with the major effects of human-caused climate change. Glaciers are large thick masses of ice formed by compressed snow, they’re […]
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Estimated Read Time 3 minutes (EU Belgium, 2024) Modern farming and food production are known to be harmful to the planet, people, and maybe most famously, the bees. Us humans became obsessed with efficiency and intensity and draining the most we possibly can from a given plot of land. Among those who received the shortest […]
Oscar Brown • March 20th, 2024 • Read Time: 3 minutes Imagine waking up to the sound of birds chirping, not from the trees in a distant forest, but from the balcony of your city apartment. It’s a reminder that, even in our concrete jungles, nature finds a way. Urbanization, a term we often associate […]
By: David Fajardo Estimated read rime: 3-5 minutes (Vietnamnet, 2019) The emperor penguins are some of the most resilient creatures, thriving in some of the most extreme climates of the Arctic. Yet today they face their greatest threat of all time, Climate change. Wide spread extinctions of species resulting from the effects of global warming […]
Muztagh Ata has an altitude of 7546 metres. It is also rich in bacteria within its ice. (Ogawa, 2015) What? Live creatures in the snow mountains? Imagine that you are standing on a super high snow mountain, over 7000 metres up! Looking around, you would see rocks, sand, and lots of snow and ice, but […]
By: Max Heslop Estimated Read Time: 4 minutes (Ralls, 2016) Introduction: Have you ever had that feeling of desperation when all you need is a cold cup of water on a hot day? Well, for koalas, this feeling is more of a lifestyle. In recent years, the world has been introduced to the urgent need […]
By: Mariah A. Peters Estimated Time to Read: 3 minutes If climate change is not addressed, French fries may become rare in Canada in just a few decades. Canada’s smallest province, Prince Edward Island (PEI), is currently Canada’s largest producer of potatoes (Statistics Canada, 2022). Over the past few years, potato yields, or the amount […]
By: Ava Tallarico (Nast, Travel Reviews, news, Guides & Tips) Florida is one of the U.S’s most popular tourist destinations for numerous reasons, however, encountering the red tide phenomenon is definitely not one of them. Known for being the “sunshine state” full of activities, attractions and its beautiful beaches, millions of tourists from around the world […]
By: Francesca Johnson Estimated Read Time: 4 minutes The polar bear on melting ice has become the poster child for climate change. This image pulls on our heart strings and often leaves us feeling helpless, guilty, and uncomfortable. It begs the question: what will happen to polar bears, and other animals, as climate change worsens? […]
By: Lauren Knafelc, Geo 3350B (Nature, 2020) Mosquitoes and Migration: Known as the deadliest creature on earth, mosquitoes transmit disease that infect over 700 million people and kill over 1 million people annually (World Mosquito Program). Historically, the countries most plagued by mosquito-transmitted diseases are those found in regions surrounding the equator, including Brazil, Sub-Saharan […]
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