Environment

Purple sea urchins and California’s kelp forests Where a kelp forest once stood, a “purple carpet” of sea urchins now covers the seafloor. (Steve Lonhart / NOAA Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary) The waters along the Californian coast contain a…

Currently, there are unprecedented levels of greenhouse gasses in the air and global temperatures continue to rise. Still, humans heavily rely on the use of fossil fuels to create the electricity that most of the world runs on. Up until…

The environmental impacts of fast fashion The mass production of fast fashion, as shown here, can negatively affect the environment with its extreme use of nature’s resources. (Think Sustainability) Our planet is already carrying a heavy burden ever since we…

Coral bleaching is the phenomenon in which coral reefs turn white while algae living inside the coral perish. (NBC News) Each year, billions of tourists are drawn to the beauty of tropical shores and flock to places such as the…

Will the Earth ever run out of resources? Coal mines in Columbia (Scott Wallace/World Bank) You have probably heard doomsday warnings such as “climate change will be irreversible by 2030” or “fossil fuels will run out by 2060” to the…

Garbage ‘patches’: A buoyant Dumpster-fire A turtle entangled in a ghost net. (The Ocean cleanup) Right now, as you read this, a 1.6 million-square-kilometer expanse of trash is sailing in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Hawai’i. The word…