Global Environmental Change

Earlier this semester I chose a tree to watch. The tree I chose was right outside my dorm. I picked it because I walk by it every day and I can see it very easily when walking from and to my dorm. When I arrived in August the tree was full of leaves and a very nice green color. I enjoyed watching the leaves turn to a wonderful orange color. I liked the tree the most when its leaves were orange. The tree has had no leaves since the end of October or beginning of November. Now I can say I don't really care for it. It looks out of place and a little weird without its leaves now. Today the tree has snow on its limbs and snow all around the base. The snow does help with its looks and makes me like it a little more than I did a month ago but it's still not the same as it was in October or even in august. I'm excited for spring to come and to watch the leaves as they make their return. I'm interested to see if anything will happen to it like a limb breaking or something while...

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 ...