Response #15: From Fresh Water to Great Plains

Planet Earth’s Season 1, which originally aired in 2006, was so spectacular that re-runs of these episodes that were aired for the first time approximately 5 years ago are still airing on today’s television channels. Planet Earth is not only educational, it’s obviously quite enjoyable to watch as well as it shows viewers the deepest [...]

Response #15 : Plastic Fish

Charles Moore, a scientific researcher and sea captain, stumbled upon a massive patch of trash trapped in the Pacific Ocean by sea currents and the North Pacific Gyre, referred to as the Pacific Garbage Patch. Moore had pointed out that the majority of the debris was Polypropylene and polyethylene plastics as they are lighter than [...]

Response #14: Sweet Mercury

Walking down the typical American grocery store Isle you will find a variety of products to choose from, however, few of them will be without high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). For years HFCS has replaced table sugar as a sweetener due to low cost, and versatility. However, according to Alexandra Gross in her article, “Eating [...]

Response #11: Barren Landscapes and Oil Exploration

In 1995, Alaska Congressman Don Young wrote “Oil Exploration can be a boon to Alaska and the Environment”, which was published in the Christian Science Monitor.  Disregarding Congressman Young’s 2010 statement declaring that the Deepwater Horizon blowout was not an environmental disaster, “This is not an environmental disaster, and I will say that again and [...]

Research Draft: Nuclear Power For The Win!

The way that energy is produced is of great impact to humanity, as it directly results in how industry, technology, and the economy are impacted.  How do all these relate to the production of energy? It is when energy is cheap and plentiful that it can be wasted, when it is plentiful and cheap that [...]

Research Draft: Water Pollution: Humans Contributing to Their Own Downfall

Water pollution is an aspect of pollution that commonly goes below the radar; however, it is a huge aspect of pollution that has detrimental effects and must be handled effectively and quickly in order to obtain a clean environment. Water covers over 70% of the earth and is something we as the human species need [...]

Research Rough Draft 1: Alaska is the Energy Frontier

Research Draft:  Alaska is the Energy Frontier The current use of unsustainable resources to supply a growing energy demand will lead to an energy collapse unless better methods are developed to power our world.  According to Energy and the Environment by Robert Ristinen, in 2005 86% of the energy used in the U.S. came from [...]

Research Part 3: 1st Rough Draft: Battling Global Warming…Winner Takes the World.

  Homes may be torn apart, lives may be lost, and the world may end. One question weighs heavily out in the open, will the sun really shine tomorrow? Global warming, although a slowly progressing process, still poses a threat to the environment in the form of temperature changes.  Even a single degree in temperature change [...]

Research: Draft #1

Ever since it became fashionable to care about the planet, we have been focusing on reducing emissions, when we should be focusing on eliminating them. Even a small amount of greenhouse gases released by a very large number of people becomes a large amount of greenhouse gases. If we are going to “save” the planet [...]

Research Draft: Improved Forest Management

Improved Forest Management The forest industry is extremely concerned with the future of forests. In order to continue to harvest wood, convert it to demanded products and market those products at reasonable prices, it must be done safely and in a way that the forest will be renewed with healthy, well-stocked stands of trees. It [...]