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Pollution is the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects, and was something that I found the most interesting to me. It was something that I wanted to educate people on, and help the world with. The three articles that really stuck out to me were Innovations to Beat Plastic Pollution on display at World Environment Day Exhibition, Shocking images show mountains of plastic and rubbish polluting rivers in India, Philippines and Vietnam, and Taj Mahal takes aim at Plastic Pollution.

The one that really blow me away was Shocking images show mountains of plastic and rubbish polluting rivers in India, Philippines and Vietnam, because my parents and their families lived in Vietnam and I didn’t really know the extent of the pollution and littering until I read and saw the pictures in this article. I learned that there was trash all over the roads and in their waterways, but especially in India. The article showed a man living in India in his forties collecting trash such as metal for an occupation, and it made me realize how bad it actually was. There was images of children my age and younger swimming in the water filled with discolored water and trash floating everywhere in it. It made me realize how lucky I was to be privileged with the things I have today. Many of the people living in these countries don't know the bad health effects of pollution and littered items. After reading this article I want to be able to educate others about these living conditions.

I learned a lot about World Environment Day in  Innovations to Beat  Plastic Pollution on display at World Environment Day Exhibition. At first, I didn't know what that day was about until I actually read the article. I learned that there was a five day exhibition happening in India to discuss plastics, and the effects it has on the world. It featured dialogue series, information booths and high-level discussions focused on the various facets of plastic, from its many irreplaceable uses in industries like construction, the medical field, and the food industry, to the issue of single-use plastics and the need for sustainable alternatives.

The last article, Taj Mahal takes aim at Plastic Pollution, was the most interesting to me, because I enjoyed learning about how India’s leadership is going to decrease the amount of plastic pollution at the Taj Mahal and 100 other monuments in India. I liked reading about the ways they are decreasing the plastic pollution around these monuments such as have a 500 meter barrier of litter free around the Taj Mahal itself. I loved the part especially how they are educating tourists and many of the people living there about the proper ways of recycling and disposing of the trash instead of littering. They had even started a campaign ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’ which I thought was incredible. This had caused me to want to educate others in my lives on the effects of plastic pollution and ways to overcome it.

Although littering and pollution is starting to take over the many areas of the world, many of its people are learning ways to clean up and help the environment. Not only  did reading these three articles educate me in these topics, but t helped discover what was going in other countries beside of my own. It has caused me to want to educate myself further and others.  I want others to be able to learn, and help the environment around them, because soon we won't be able to have it for much longer if we continue to litter and pollute the only Earth we have. I want to show others that we can fix our mistakes by cleaning up one area at a time even if we’re starting off small such as our own community.

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Carbon dioxide reaches another record level in Earth's atmosphere

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Carbon dioxide reaches another record level in Earth's atmosphere

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Carbon dioxide, scientists say is most responsible for global warming as it peaked again at record levels last month, federal scientists announced Thursday. Levels at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory averaged more than 410 parts per million in April and May, surging past yet another climate milestone.

https://www.cbs19.tv/article/news/nation-now/carbon-dioxide-reaches-another-record-level-in-earths-atmosphere/465-8f4a8079-48bb-4b67-be0f-8c0feb3a2549

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Farmers welcome further greenhouse gas discussions

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Farmers welcome further greenhouse gas discussions

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Federated Farmers sees a silver lining in the government's latest proposals on climate change.

The government yesterday invited people to respond in a six week public consultation on the Zero Carbon Bill. This aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The document wants public reaction to three alternative targets, and only one of them brings all greenhouse gases equally into the greenhouse fight.

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/country/359201/farmers-welcome-further-greenhouse-gas-discussions

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Consumer food choices can help reduce greenhouse emissions contributing to climate change

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Consumer food choices can help reduce greenhouse emissions contributing to climate change

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Changes in diet have been proposed as a way to reduce carbon emissions from the food system, but there has been little research on the affordability and feasibility of low-carbon food choices in the U.S. and how these choices could affect diet and climate change. A new study provides the most comprehensive estimate of greenhouse gas emissions generated by U.S. consumer food purchases suggests that, if Americans directed their food purchases away from meats and other animal proteins, they could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-consumer-food-choices-greenhouse-emissions.html

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Students step up to improve ecology at Unsworth Reserve

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Students step up to improve ecology at Unsworth Reserve

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Around 40 students from Kristin School in Albany worked together last week to improve the ecology of Unsworth Reserve. Along with school teachers and parents, the volunteer group planted 200 native plants into the reserve as part of the Kristin School’s Enviroschools Programme.

http://ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/articles/news/2018/6/students-step-up-to-improve-ecology-at-unsworth-reserve/

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History, ecology, and restoration in Glen Helen

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History, ecology, and restoration in Glen Helen

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Glen Helen is the region’s largest and most-visited private nature preserve, yet just a fraction of our 100,000 annual visitors spend time along our largest waterway, the Little Miami River. There are few visitors and fewer trails, Glen Helen shelters ancient trees, wetlands, the ruins of an ancient earthwork, and habitat for wildlife. With support from visitors, donors, and volunteers, we’re working diligently to restore the land along the river. This is not the wilderness that Tecumseh would have found as he walked past these same trees 200 years ago. The big predators are gone from the area. Passenger pigeons are extinct. Lots of the trees are gone too. But, within what is now the Dayton-Springfield metro area, Glen Helen along the Little Miami is as wild as you get.

https://www.xeniagazette.com/opinion/31068/history-ecology-and-restoration-in-glen-helen

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Urbanization & Ecology – Two Sides of The Coin

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Urbanization & Ecology – Two Sides of The Coin

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In an inner city street a fox melts into the night in search of a meal. Maybe it will catch a rat, an animal equally at home among the trash cans and concrete alleys. Across the world, some animals who once lived among fields and forests are following the human trend for city living. For other animals, our fondness for towns and roads, industry and parking lots spells decline and death.

https://www.triplepundit.com/2018/06/urbanization-ecology-two-sides-coin/

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The otter is a semi-aquatic mammal which plays a vital role to balance freshwater ecosystem to act as a top canorous in food chain. “Otter hunts slow and diseased fish and prevent the spread of the disease in healthy fishes,” said Akshit Suthar, adding that if the state government makes efforts to conserve and maintain suitable healthy freshwater habitat for otters, it will reduce chances of water scarcity in Gujarat.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/they-help-balance-freshwater-ecosystem/articleshow/64441409.cms

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Mangroves near Mumbai are being destroyed methodically through debris dumping

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Mangroves near Mumbai are being destroyed methodically through debris dumping

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Near the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) storage terminal area close to Belpada village, a 289-hectare mangroves patch is being destroyed through systematic debris dumping. When HT visited the site, 14 large heaps of debris and mud were spotted just at the edge of the mangrove patch. “We have spotted four to five excavator machines every night dumping the debris on the trees, and trucks bringing much more debris from Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane. Closer to the morning, the debris is flattened, and the recently dumped mud is made into piles. With the first light of day, it seems like no work was carried out but every night at least one hectare is eaten up,” said Tukaram Koli, a member of the fishing community. No tidal water could mean that 4,500 trees die

https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai-news/an-ecosystem-being-destroyed/story-IIkXtIbCsobvm9JfiO0gXN.html

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The Brutal Shark Fin Trade Continues To Threaten Endangered Species

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The Brutal Shark Fin Trade Continues To Threaten Endangered Species

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The brutal shark fin trade is still raging in Asia, and one man is swimming across the Pacific to bring awareness to issues like these. The Swim is part of a partnership between Seeker and Discovery to document Ben Lecomte’s journey across the Pacific in an effort to gain awareness on the state of ocean health from pollution.

https://www.seeker.com/videos/earth/the-brutal-shark-fin-trade-continues-to-threaten-endangered-species

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House Republicans Strip Protections From Wolves in Funding Bill

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House Republicans Strip Protections From Wolves in Funding Bill

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The House Republicans in the Appropriations Committee passed a legislation to fund the Department of the Interior for 2019 that includes riders to strip Endangered Species Act protection from gray wolves nationwide, delay protections for sage grouse and grizzly bears, and prohibit any federal agency from protecting public health and wildlife from toxic lead ammunition. The legislation also slashes the budget for listing threatened and endangered species under the Act to less than $11 million, a decrease of nearly $8 million from 2018 levels.

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2018/endangered-species-attacks-06-06-2018.php

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After Relocation, an Endangered Species Stops Avoiding Predator Scents

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After Relocation, an Endangered Species Stops Avoiding Predator Scents

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Attempts to save animals from extinction often include relocating them to zoos or another location safe from threats. But a study published in  Biology Letters today (June 6) suggests that this isolation could have unintended consequences. The authors found that after just 13 generations, northern quolls (Dasyurus hallucatus)—small, carnivorous marsupials native to Australia—sequestered on an island without predators no longer avoid predators’ scents as do their counterparts on the mainland that coexist with predators. This could make the animals more susceptible to predation when they are reintroduced to habitats with predators.

https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/54761/title/After-Relocation--an-Endangered-Species-Stops-Avoiding-Predator-Scents/

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Could wolves be removed from the endangered species list?

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Could wolves be removed from the endangered species list?

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The Wisconsin DNR reported Wisconsin's wolf population appears to be stabilizing, after decades of growth. Volunteers have tracked between 900 and 950 wolves this winter. The DNR said they need a few more years worth of data to prove the population has stabilized, but added the target goal in Wisconsin is 250 animals. Wolves were removed from the endangered species list in 2011, and re-added them in 2014. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the new data could result in their removal from the list.

http://www.wqow.com/story/38366417/2018/06/06/could-wolves-be-removed-from-the-endangered-species-list

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Invasive Plants Being Killed Using Beetles in Bay County

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Invasive Plants Being Killed Using Beetles in Bay County

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An invasive plant that’s growing across Florida is being treated in a different way. Instead of pesticides, beetles are being used to eat the leaves as the plant dies. The air potato plant originates in Asia and is considered an invasive species that kills plants and trees. During a free all-day event held by the University of Florida Extension center, people were given these beetles, and learned about invasive species from Florida Fish and Wildlife representatives and other local organizations. The goal was to raise awareness and give residents advice.

http://www.mypanhandle.com/news/invasive-plants-being-killed-using-beatles-in-bay-county/1222889747

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The UF IFAS Bay County Branch is working to combat the invasive species, Air Potato vines. The Air Potato vine harms the environment, because it has the ability to grow extremely fast over the native plants. Herbicides and methods of pulling down the plant mechanically have not been able to stop the vines growth. Scientists have gone back to the origins of this vine from Asia and have been able to find a beetle that eats only that, and after about ten years of research they decided it was safe to bring the beetles over in 2011.

http://www.wjhg.com/content/news/Combating-invasive-species--484772661.html

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Feral swine, "the worst invasive species we'll ever see"

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Feral swine, "the worst invasive species we'll ever see"

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Found in at least 35 states with a population of more than 5 million, feral swine cause at least $1.5

billion in damages and control costs in the United States each year, conservatively. About a quarter of that damage happens in Texas. Eighty-three-year-old rancher and farmer Jackie Brister farms about 3,000 acres in Bend, Texas, mostly pecans and wheat. But nowadays, he also battles feral swine. He guessed the damage could be close to $100,000 a year because feral hogs eat anything: They love Brister’s wheat and trample even more of it when they’re rooting around for his fallen pecans.

https://www.marketplace.org/2018/06/06/economy/feral-swine-are-most-invasive-animal-well-ever-see

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WRISC aims to reduce the spread of invasive species

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WRISC aims to reduce the spread of invasive species

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For lakes in upper Michigan and Wisconsin invasive species are a big concern and its one coalition's goal to get the issue at the top of boaters' minds. "There's several that are introduced that have had quite profound impacts on ecosystems and has really changed the entire Great Lake ecosystem," Lindsay Peterson a Coordinator with the Wild Rivers Invasive Species Coalition explained to TV6 News. To help prevent the further spread of these species, the Wild Rivers Invasive Species Coalition have suggested a three step process - clean, drain and dry.

http://www.uppermichiganssource.com/content/news/WRISC-aims-to-reduce-the-spread-of-invasive-species-484764611.html

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The Milky Way will always be there in the night sky, however the days of it being seen by the naked eye are decreasing. The brightening of the night sky caused by street lights and other man-made sources has a disruptive effect on wildlife and inhibits the observation of stars and planets. Scientific evidence shows that artificial light during the nighttime has negative and deadly effects on most living organisms.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20180603/light-pollution-growing-challenge

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Taj Mahal takes aim at Plastic Pollution

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Taj Mahal takes aim at Plastic Pollution

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India's most inspiring landmark is the Taj Mahal, and it is set to go litter free after a pledge was made by India’s leadership to protect its beauty of India from plastic pollution along with 100 other monuments. Some of the commitments include: making areas around the Taj Mahal up to a limit of 500 metres around the monument litter free, segregating plastic waste generated near the monument for recycling, encouraging ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’ tourism and launching mass consumer awareness campaigns about the negative impacts of single-use plastics thereby changing consumption patterns in the city.
https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/press-release/taj-mahal-takes-aim-plastic-pollution

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Innovations to Beat Plastic Pollution on display at World Environment Day Exhibition

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Innovations to Beat Plastic Pollution on display at World Environment Day Exhibition

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As celebrations start up for World Environment Day on June 5th, delegates and policymakers connect with India's business sector and innovators to explore how to beat plastic pollution, at the World Environment Day Exhibition at the Vigyan Bhavan convention centre in Delhi. The five-day exhibition features dialogue series, information booths and high-level discussions focused on the various facets of plastic, from its many irreplaceable uses in industries like construction, the medical field, and the food industry, to the issue of single-use plastics and the need for sustainable alternatives.

https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/press-release/innovations-beat-plastic-pollution-display-world-environment-day

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Shocking images show mountains of plastic and rubbish polluting rivers in India, Philippines and Vietnam

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Shocking images show mountains of plastic and rubbish polluting rivers in India, Philippines and Vietnam

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There are shocking photos of polluted rivers filled with trash in India, Philippines and Vietnam have emerged ahead of the annual World Environment Day tomorrow. This year’s theme is plastic pollution and India, which contains 14 of the most plastic-polluted cities in the world according to the World Health Organisation, is the country in focus. Drains in the country’s capital city, New Delhi, are choked with plastic, while streets are lined with bags of trash and rivers are full of waste and pollution, and residents go about their lives around it. Reports that show the country produces 187.2 million tonnes of plastic waste each year. The country lacks the infrastructure required to effectively manage their waste.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6444859/india-philippines-vietnam-pollution-plastic-rubbish-pictures-world-environment-day/