Global Environmental Change

I watched the documentary Chasing Coral. This documentary is about the bleaching of the coral reefs. In this documentary you follow Zack Rago and his fellow researchers as they make a time lapse of the reef in around a 100 day period. To do this they went to Lizard Island. Lizard Island is an Island on Queensland on the Great Barrier Reef. This was a very interesting film to watch because you get to see how we are impacting the environment in such a short amount of time. I think watching this makes you think more about how you live and we are living as a global population. It was pretty sad to watch them die because they go from being this really cool area that has marine life all around it and than 100 days later pretty much nothing is left. It's very important that we change our  way of living in order to preserve these, without the coral reefs all of its life will lose their home. With the loss of the coral reefs entire civilizations will loose a food source. It would be like hu...

An important figure in the environmental history of the United States is John Muir.  Throughout John  Muirs  life he had many accomplishments that changed the United States forever. He would become one of the most famous environmentalists because he was very involved with the environment and standing up for it. John was very big into keeping earth beautiful. However, before he was one of the most famous environmentalists, he was just a guy. John was born April 21, 1838 in Dunbar, Scotland. He lived in Scotland till he was 11, when he was 11 his family moved to Wisconsin. He finished his schooling and attended University of Wisconsin for 3 years. After school is when Johns journey to becoming one of the most famous environmentalists really began. He did things like study plants , sail around the world, walk from Indiana to Florida John was very big into the natural beauty of the earths landscape which is what motivated him to fight and try to ...

Section 1 For this assignment I chose the Javan Rhinoceros. The Javan Rhinoceros look very similar to Indonesian Rhinos, but they are a little smaller than them. They are gray have loose skin on their necks and can be  as long as  10.5 feet long. They can weigh up to almost 4500 pounds depending on male or female. You can also tell them apart by their horns. Males will have horns you can see, and females' horns won't protrude their skin. These rhinos eat things they can find with ease like fruit that has fallen, sticks, leaves (things that are on the ground). In order to reproduce the female  has to  be at least 3 or 4 but the male has to be 5 or 6. A female will have a single baby rhino every 4-5 years and the baby will stay with them for the first 2 years of its life. This species of rhinos is critically endangered and its estimated that there is around 46-66 mature Javan Rhinos left.    This is what an Indian Rhino looks like. Section...

This is the tree I chose to post about.  This tree is in front of the dorm pondside 1.   I chose this tree because I see it every time I leave, and every time come back  to  my dorm. I like this tree because the branches spread out really wide and makes it look cool.   A nother thing I like about this tree is the color that the leaves have been this fall . I  feel like this tree just kind of looks like a perfect tree.  W hen I  think of a perfect tree in my head  I think it has to  be taller but not super tall, have very nice color throughout the year,  n ot have any spots where there are no leaves ,   be somewhat  symmetrical, and it  just  has t o have a nice shape  like wider at the bottom and slowly gets narrower as you go up but it doesn’t get too narrow and I think this tree has these qualities.  I t has been  kind of  cool t o  watch this tree  turn color because...

     This evening I saw the movie Dawnland. This movie was held in the Putnam Theater. Dawnland is documentary on how the government was taking Native American kids from their parents. They were taking them and placing them with white families. They were taking them to try to integrate them to try to make them like everyone else. A lot of these families were not accepting of their way of living which resulted in a lot of physical and mental abuse to these children. This movie captured the stories of what happened to a lot of the people in Maine. These events took place throughout the 20th century. The TRC is an organization that was created to regain and rebuild trust with the indigenous people. They worked for two years with the indigenous people in the state of Maine and are slowly gaining trust and getting more people to share their stories.              I thought that this movie was very good. I found it to be very educational and ...

The article that I read about is based around the affects the Canadian coal mines have on the Elk River ecosystem in British Columbia. However, as they continue to do more research, they are learning that the contamination is affecting the communities farther downstream where it is contaminating drinking water. They have also learned it has spread into the United States. The chemical that is affecting all of this stuff is selenium. The problem is being created by the coal miners. When they dig into the sides of these mountains the piles that they make often have selenium in them. When it is exposed to water or air it starts to seep out of the rock.   Once it gets into the river it can spread very easily because algae and invertebrates collect it and then other animals feed off them and other animals off them and so on. It is bad enough now that it is giving fish and some other animals reproductive issues. It was estimated that this problem killed around 180,00...