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Description The blue whale is a marine mammal belonging to the baleen whale, the blue whale is  a  confirmed length of 29.9 meters and weight of 173 tonnes, it is the largest animal known to have ever existed.  Blue whales live in all the world's  oceans , except the  Arctic , occasionally swimming in small groups but usually alone or in pairs. They often spend summers  feeding  in polar waters and undertake lengthy migrations towards the Equator as winter arrives.  The blue whale was driven to the brink of extinction by commercial whaling in the 1800s and early 1900s. When the Law was passed in 1973, the blue whale was listed as endangered throughout its range. Because of their large size and supply of blubber blue whales were an extremely popular species to hunt and whalers would sell their blubber and body parts to suppliers who made various materials out of it. I find it truly amazing that people hunt these creatures because they are ani...

 Though we have many new technologies being developed to help reduce our carbon emissions. There are many of the technologies that we use frequently on a daily basis are good contributors to climate change. Such as the our energy sources, our transportation, and our agricultural methods are major contributors to climate change. We get a large portion of our energy such as heat, gas, electricity from the burning of fossil fuels, which is the worlds leading contributor to climate change. Our transportation is also a major source of the emission of greenhouse gas, due to our culture and society being so reliant on cars, planes, and other forms of transportation on a mass scale. Agriculture accounts for roughly 20% of our greenhouse emissions, and with new technologies being developed to make large scale agriculture more efficient we can only predict that the amount of greenhouse gas that is produced from agriculture to increase in the coming years.   Sources:  https://www.ep...

 Tidal energy is an alternate energy source which uses the oceans tides to produce energy. I haven’t really heard that much about these type of power plants and all but there actually kinda interesting. Turbines are placed under the water and the current or waves turns the turbines. The turbines are connected to another machine which is visible above the water which looks like a small dam. There it power is converted into electricity. This needs to be used a lot more since the entire earth is covered in water and that could be a lot of electricity.  https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiA4sjhkvvsAhVJ7qwKHXjoDa0QFjACegQIAhAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalgeographic.org%2Fencyclopedia%2Ftidal-energy%2F&usg=AOvVaw3Ud9Vtm8ZCPrua0jDSiiCX

  The golden road has been said to be extinct in 1994. The reason what led to their extinction has been due to pollution, global warming. Scientists said that they have limited habitats, and small population. They were important as both a predator and prey in the ecosystem. Since they are huge numbers of insects and smaller creatures, were prey to larger animals such as fish, birds, reptiles, mammals .

      So we all know that there are billions of cars on the road contributing to the biggest problem on planet earth today which is climate change. Since we have manufactured so many cars, we had to use our precious land to support them by building roads for them to drive on and parking garages for them to park in. This blog post, I will be talking about how parking garages contribute to climate change even with out the car aspect of things. Lets begin with how a parking garage works, so you drive in and start searching for a parking spot. As you are driving around trying to find a parking spot, you are allowing your car to be more fuel inefficient. A kilo meter driven inside a parking facility is much more fuel inefficient and produces much more green house gases than driving a kilo meter at regular highway speeds. cars isnt the only problem that makes parking garages bad. Since parking garages are multi levels if it happens to storm, rain water gets stuck between t...

 Black Spider monkeys are a type of monkey that live in eastern South America in areas north of the Amazon River. The black spider monkey is on the vulnerable part of the extinction spectrum. They are anywhere from 16-24 inches long and 15-19 pounds. They play a huge role in seed dispersal in their forest to keep plants growing. They are another victim of deforestation.  Brennan Moots

People often  waste natural resources. Animals are over-hunted.Forest  are cleared, exposing land to wind and water damage.  Fertile  soil is exhausted and lost to  erosion  because of poor farming practices. Fuel supplies are depleted . Water and air are polluted. If resources are carelessly managed, many will be used up. If used wisely and efficiently, however, renewable resources will last much longer. Through conservation, people can reduce waste and manage natural resources wisely.

Alameen Abdul                                                                                                     11/9/2020                                                    The American Pika      The American Pika is one of America’s most toughest mammals. They live in the lower 48 is states in the US and can survive their entire lives in apline terrain. the no mans land above the tree. They are small rodent looking like mammals. They kind look like a half squirrel half rabbit kind of thing. Although they can reach to size of about 7 - 8 inches long.      Although they live in the m...

                                     Kara McQuerrey  In this article it talks about the large use of palm oil. Asia has been destroying tropical rainforest to create massive palm oil plantations. This causes huge deforestation. Rainforests help maintain water resources without them rainfall wouldn’t be able to be absorbed and released back into streams and rivers. This then causes flooding and soil depletion. With the use of palm oil being in everything and the fact it produces a lot of money, boycotting these items wouldn’t help. The article talks about how that may instead cause them to initiate more intensive timber harvesting. This then would cause more pollution on already compromised land, air and water. Palm oil has a huge impact on our environment. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/harvesting-palm-oil-and-rainforests/

 Waste water recycling is very useful and important in today’s time. Special types of machines are used to to purify or filter water that is contaminated or polluted and makes it fit to use for other purposes. There is zero discharge in this process and over 5 continents are using this process to have clean water. Water is the most important liquid on earth so I think the more clean water we have the better off we are. Once done there are multiple uses for the water. Some is for it to be consumed, used for bathing and used to fill recreational lakes and ponds. If you ask me this is a great thing and it doesn’t pollute earth which is very important.  https://www.watereducation.org/aquapedia/water-recycling https://www.beckart.com/?gclid=CjwKCAiAv4n9BRA9EiwA30WNDwR1Suu88wnb-ClaN4jdh6Aq2Bbw3iXdbPHJ_5Q7V99DCXDRpQCRyxoCEH4QAvD_BwE

 Bonobo Bonobos are very similar to chimpanzees who both share 98.7% of their DNA with humans. The two species are humans closest living relatives. Bonobos are smaller, leaner, and darker than chimpanzees. The two species weren’t recognized as separate species until 1929. Bonobos are losing their habitats due to deforestation and are dying because once again humans are poaching them. They are used for bush eats, medicine, and pets. They are only found in forests south of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They are Endangered on the extinction risk chart. The WWF is working by protecting their habitats. There are 10,000-50,000 bonobos left. Brennan Moots Blog Post 7 https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/bonobo

 Alameen Abdul                                                                                             11/4/20                                                         Horrific plastic     Did you know the us generates more and uses the most plastic more than any other country? The United States is by far the the largest generator for wastes period. Less than 10 percent of American plastic is recycled. The rest is either thrown out, littered in our grounds and beautiful such as beaches, oceans , parks and regular streets. The problem is we figure point and never take control of our own actions. I prom...

 A carbon footprint is the total greenhouse emissions caused by an individual, organization, event, service or product. One way that scientists have found to keep track of carbon footprint of both people and events, by measuring the amount of CO2 that is released into the atmosphere and take into account all other gasses that are contributed to the rise of gas emissions. Nearly every thing that we do carries a carbon footprint from the food we consume, the clothes we buy, to traveling to and from work/school, there is usually a measurable amount of CO2 emissions. There have been new technologies developed to measure how much the average person emits per day/year, and there are even websites that can predict, by your lifestyle, how many earths we would need to sustain 7 billion people living exactly the way you do. Which is nice to see how the average person contributes to CO2 emissions, and can even help you find areas of your life to alter so that you can reduce your personal CO2 ...

       I would like this post to be something else other than just the building of urbanization and construction. So let’s think about how the small things affect climate change? I got one, thrash. So thrash can come in many sizes from tiny to enormous but if we don’t recycle it then it becomes trash. Well if you didn’t know, thrash just doesn’t just disappear in the back of the garbage truck but It has to be taken somewhere and eventually it will go away. So the place that the thrash goes to is called a landfill which is usually a huge piece of land that is just filled with nothing but thrash. This is why we need to start recycling what we can because if we keep throwing thrash away then we will be forced to use more land as a landfill site. Solid landfills are the single largest man made source of methane gas in the United States. If you didn’t know methane is a power green house gas that is 23 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than any other ...

There’s a lot of endangered animals all around the world but I think the giant panda is one if the most interesting by far. The giant panda, also known as the panda bear or just a panda that is a bear native to south central China. It is a large bear with black patches around its eyes, over the ears and across it’s round body. Giant pandas first became endangered in 1990 due to excessive poaching in the 1980s and deforestation, depleting their bamboo food source. Bamboo can grow extensively in mountainous or barren lands, but it usually dies in the winter forcing the pandas around those areas to relocate in search fir food. I hope we can save these animals before it’s too late. Description

 The saola are critically in danger and There is maybe around 4 that have been documented. They are mainly dying and going extinct due to habit loss with deforestation, hunters killing them and poaching. The saola are important since they are good source of meat for tigers and Dholes, if they go extinct then animals that like to eat saola might go also. They are also important since some people in Lao’s and Vietnam also depend on the saola for meat. Saola almost look like antelopes and they also have red, brown or black fur.

  For   more than a century , burning fossil fuels has generated most of the energy required to propel our cars, power our businesses, and keep the lights on in our homes. Even today, oil, coal, and gas provide for   about 80 percent   of our energy needs. And we’re paying the price. Using fossil fuels for energy has exacted an enormous toll on humanity and the environment from  air   and   water pollution   to   global warming . That’s beyond all the negative impacts from petroleum-based products such as plastics and chemicals. 

  Kara McQuerrey Hurricanes can cause so much destruction. Ripping through towns and cities, causing floods that destroy things. They ruin crops and they can make land hard to use. In this article I read about one of the most recent hurricanes, Hurricane Zeta. They said that it’s winds were more like a tornado, reaching around 86-110 mph. They think this was either a category 1 or category 2 hurricane, that went through South Mississippi. Hurricane Zeta caused damage to homes and had trees uprooted which then caused them to block roads. They even experienced power loss. It would be hard to have things/ possessions wiped out by a hurricane.  https://www.wlox.com/2020/11/02/hurricane-zetas-winds-caused-tornado-like-damage-where-strongest-winds-occurred-why/