Recycling. The term which hung itself up in the hallways of my elementary school and labeled the black, blue, and green bins in our classrooms. The term which floated through the air in high school and called on us to make a change. The idea which now seemed less optional and more like a pleaContinue reading “How recycling could save millions”
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Earthquakes and Tsunamis: what makes them so dangerous?
Earthquakes are scary, that is not new information but it always seems to escape the public’s mind how dangerous they are until another one happens. Take a look at the earthquake that shook the city if San Francisco in 1989. A magnitude 6.9 earthquake erupted in the Bay Area at 5:04pm on October 17th andContinue reading “Earthquakes and Tsunamis: what makes them so dangerous?”
The Blackfish Problem
When the documentary Blackfish came out in 2013 it hit the world by storm. Tilikum, “Tilly”, the killer whale of interest at SeaWorld, soon became a household name but for all the wrong reasons, namely for the fact that he was tied to three fatalities and could be attributed to the closing of an marineContinue reading “The Blackfish Problem”
Garbage: Packaging Patches
By: Camryn Rogers, EPS C82, Fall 2019 When thinking about waste in the ocean, the minds of many may immediately think about infamous videos such as the turtle with a straw stuck in its nose or fish choking on plastic pack rings. These two disturbing images are among hundreds of thousands of similar incidences thatContinue reading “Garbage: Packaging Patches”