May 28, 2020
The Burgundy Zine #15: Go Green
By: burgundy bug
“The Burgundy Zine #15: Go Green”
Source: The Burgundy Zine
Tag: earth
May 24, 2020
A Truth From My Weeping Eyes by Mahik’s
Poet Mahik’s shares an eye-opening poem, written from the perspective of mother Earth.
April 26, 2020
Litter is Not a Suitable Home for Ants, Study Says
The world is your oyster, not your dumpster – although it’s often mistreated as such.
The non-profit organization Keep America Beautiful reports the United States spends approximately $11.5 billion to clean up litter annually. However, crumbled up plastics and abandoned glass bottles still find their way into the natural world, invading forests, lakes, rivers, and oceans.
Recently, researchers investigated the impact of discarded bottles and containers on ants, questioning whether these discarded byproducts of human activity are a “deadly trap or sweet home.”
April 4, 2020
The Ecological Cost of the Trump Border Wall
The “world’s most costly” border wall has a projected budget that extends beyond its dollar amount: the environmental and ecological costs.
If the Trump administration pursues a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, “there are species that will be completely extirpated from the United States,” said Sky Island Alliance program director Emily Burns during our recent interview.
Not to mention, the cement needed to create the border wall will require draining “hundreds of thousands of gallons of water that’s very precious down here in the southwest” from sensitive, local sources, she added.
April 2, 2020
Human Impact by Natalia Bennett
Australian artist Natalia Bennett discusses our role in climate change and calls for positive human impact through political involvement.
January 9, 2020
BYOBottle: The Future of Sustainable Concerts and Festivals
Nothing looks more like a music festival than rubber bracelets, band t-shirts, flower crowns, and countless water bottles littering the ground.
…What, can you blame the attendees? Staying hydrated is vital to survival, and it’s all the more important when you’re dancing your heart out or drinking your face off at a festival, as stressed by the data in a 2018 Addiction Science and Clinical Practice study.
But we don’t have to dehydrate the audience in order to help save the planet, nor do we have to put an end to festivals altogether.
There’s a middle ground that allows us to have the best of both worlds: water and music. Meet BYOBottle.
January 7, 2020
NASA’s Big Plans for 2020
NASA’s Launch Services Program is blasting off three missions this year, reaching beyond our atmosphere to study the sun, Mars, and the ocean.
These missions will provide revelations about the centerpiece of our solar system, address questions critical to planning for human expeditions of the Red Planet, and shed insight on the earth’s rising sea levels.
October 20, 2019
How Plants Think: The Controversy of Consciousness
Unencumbered by words and semantics, plants express themselves through their luscious leaves and abundant blooms, which are the result of carefully calculated survival tactics that almost seem “thought out.”
These physical characteristics can tell human observers a lot about how the plant is doing; whether it needs more water or sunlight, warmth or humidity, and so forth – but, plants don’t have eyes like we do. They don’t have brains like ours, yet research shows they possess intelligence.
How far does that intelligence go? Do plants “think?”
June 17, 2019
Leopard Seals: What It Means to Be a Resident of New Zealand
It’s been nearly one month since leopard seals became the latest “residents of New Zealand” – but what exactly does that mean?
June 8, 2019
What’s with the Weather in Pa?
We’re only half way through the year and Pa residents have already found themselves subject to 31 tornados.
Considering that our state averages 16 tornados annually, it’s time to hunker down and buckle up for how the climate is changing right before our very eyes.