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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 ...