https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19 *6 articles per marking period! en-us 2017-09-18 17:00:01 UTC 2018-05-09 16:55:35 UTC hello@padlet.com 19burnsa https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/188572438 This article is about how Alaska's permafrost, which stores ancient carbon could be gone soon due to the Earth warming. Permafrost contains twice as much carbon as the atmosphere does - which is saying a lot. By permafrost melting globally, it creates a serious loss of carbon for us. This can cause a problem because the more carbon that is released into the atmosphere, the more prominent global warming becomes and it creates a loop effect. Scientists are not completely sure when Alaska's permafrost will completely thaw, but there is stark evidence that it is thawing at an alarming rate.]]> 2017-09-18 17:05:28 UTC https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/188572438 19burnsa https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/188574740 This article talks about how a 500 year flood could be happening soon. A 500 year flood is what the government says when predicting the chance of a flood or any catastrophic event occurring. A 500 year event has a 1 in 500 chance of happening in a given year. They are able to determine this with historic data through patterns scientist see. Due to the climate change the Earth has been going through recently, the scientists predictions may be altered. A flood or storm as bad as Hurricane Harvey is rare, but the probability of it happening lies somewhere in the year of 2517.]]> 2017-09-18 17:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/188574740 19burnsa https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/204322506 This article is about Antarctica's fastest moving glaciers shedding ice at a rate that is too fast into the sea. The two glaciers hold ice that could raise ocean water levels up by four feet if the ice were to melt into the sea. This is happening due to the warm waters in front of the long rivers of ice. The Pine Island glacier and Thwaities glacier have been shedding ice rapidly due to increasing earth temperatures which causes the ocean water to be warmer. If this problem is to continue, the ocean levels could destroy coastal residences around the world.]]> 2017-11-07 13:25:37 UTC https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/204322506 19burnsa https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/204325431 This article challenges the topic of whether global warming is confirming that shifts in plant phenology are caused due to global warming or if it's just by coincidence. Plants are blossoming at a quicker rate, many common people and scientists have reported. The obvious cause to this is climate change, and that the plants are "confused" by the unpredictable weather patterns climate change comes with. The human activity that creates climate change is creating an issue with plant growth, which could be bad for our food industry in the long run.]]> 2017-11-07 13:31:39 UTC https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/204325431 19burnsa https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/204326246 This article is about how the extinction of one species impacts another species greatly. It shows that before dinosaurs disappeared, mammals were more active during the night than the day. It was not an instant change, since mammals showed a mixture of both day and night activity for millions of years. There are certain adaptations to specific mammals that prove this discovery correct. For example, in simian primates, they have certain adaptations to help them see during the day. Scientists are still trying to pinpoint exactly when the change occurred through further research.]]> 2017-11-07 13:33:19 UTC https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/204326246 19burnsa https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/204327055 This article is about how carbon based policies benefit both forests and mammal diversity. These policies have been put into effect across the world, and consists of reducing the release of greenhouse gases by reducing deforestation. Deforestation is from human activity such as agriculture. Certain UN groups are trying the enforce conservation of forest areas. Protecting forests has been proven to benefit an area's biodiversity. These findings and results from research have been important for the UN's policy makers as it shows validity to the policies they try to enforce.]]> 2017-11-07 13:35:03 UTC https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/204327055 https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/223640877 This article essentially talks about climate change and global warming's impact on nature. Due to waters increasing in temperature, more than 99% of baby green sea turtles are female. The gender they are born as is very dependent on temperature. The sex ratio of turtles born in the Northern Great Barrier Reef is 1 male for every 116 females. This can cause an issue as a sex imbalance within the population can cause for less reproduction, due to there being no males for the females to reproduce with. No reproduction can lead to the extinction of the turtle species.]]> 2018-01-23 05:44:51 UTC https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/223640877 https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/223641042 This article discusses CCD, or Colony Collapse Disorder. In particular, it discusses the mystery of the collapsing of the bee colonies. Stemming from 2007, the losses of honeybees and honeybee workers has been considered a phenomenon. No one knows the direct cause for this sudden disappearance, and much research is being put into this enigma. Bee colony losses are still at a high even to this day.]]> 2018-01-23 05:46:18 UTC https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/223641042 https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/223641301 This article is about how climate change may be taking a toll on human mental health. Recently, a new study has shown proof of this occurring. A cause for bad mental healthy relating to climate change could be the anxiety of breathing in polluted air, or other things such as drinking dirtied water. Anxiety also can form from fear of the future and how future generations will survive. Online surveys have shown that young people are stressed about global warming and climate change, and this stress has been noted to link to depression. ]]> 2018-01-23 05:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/223641301 https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/223641704 This article talks about not enough water from an ice sheet flows into the ocean, therefore impacting rising ocean water calculations. This is a problem because rising ocean waters is one of the main effects of climate change. Instead of melted ice going into the ocean, scientists have found water retention. The ice sheet is very big, and not much is known about it. It is located in Greenland. Greenland loses tons of ice due to global warming, and this new found ice sheet data can tamper with those calculations and data.]]> 2018-01-23 05:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/223641704 https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/223641796 This article mentions an oil spill that poses a threat to aquatic and avian wild life. 136,000 tons of highly flammable fuel oil spilled into the East China Sea. The oil spill covered 52 square miles, but is now reportedly the size of Paris, France. Strong winds also push the oil into Japanese zones. Aquatic life is in danger due to the oils spreading, and not so much the burning off.]]> 2018-01-23 05:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/223641796 https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/223641954 This article explains how city lights can cause danger for birds that migrate. Birds in the United States are nocturnal, and migrate during the night time. Night time equates to low visibility, therefore causing many dangers for night traveling with birds. Birds are attracted to the light, and city lights from big buildings may cause birds to crash into them and die. Other dangers mentioned include birds adaptation to newer LED lights causing struggles for them throughout their migration.]]> 2018-01-23 05:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/223641954 https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/243101260 In America, our once cold and brutal winters are starting to become warmer. In particular, this is happening in places between Michigan and Minnesota, places that are known for extremely cold winters. These abnormal patterns are matching up with the most common issue involving temperature: global warming. Locations up north are warming up faster than southern locations, and interior locations are warming up faster than coastal locations are. This poses an economic issue since warmer winters calls for a great decline in industries that rely on snow and cold winters, disruptions to growing seasons, water availability in the west, and even people who suffer from allergens are at risk.]]> 2018-03-17 17:36:29 UTC https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/243101260 https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/243101506 This article discusses the sites that handle extremely dangerous chemicals being in potential flood zones. It's important to note that floods are increasing in the more recent years. There's risk that there could be a toxic spill during a flood, which could further contaminate waters. Flooding will only become more common due to climate change. More than 1,400 of the companies that handle dangerous chemicals are in sites that are at risk of flooding. There aren't any laws that regard flooding and these companies as a unit. The article continues to list multiple sites that believe their location is the "optimal location" for their work. Obama tried to make new regulations stating that companies need to consider where they work and take extra caution about flooding. Trump, however, removed this attempt last year. ]]> 2018-03-17 17:38:59 UTC https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/243101506 https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/243101668 This article (obviously) talks about daylight savings. Daylight savings was originally made to save candle burning time by Benjamin Franklin so that people could have more day time light and not have to burn so many candles back when there was no such thing as electricity. It was also used as a way to conserve energy once electricity was a thing, and senators have claimed that it saves the country millions of dollars in gas. Recent research however quickly debunks this thought of saving energy using daylight savings, since we don't use light as much as we use other electrical appliances like cooling systems, computer charging, and other electricity consuming objects in households alone. And we obviously don't need it for conserving candle wax anymore... so why is it still around?]]> 2018-03-17 17:40:49 UTC https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/243101668 https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/243101960 This article is about drinking water. There are many people around the world who do not have access to clean drinking water. Another problem is that within water heavy metal pollution is what makes the water "dirty" as the world's need for more heavy metals for energy increases rapidly. A PhD student however have now found a solution to "pulling" out these dangerous metals. When the cleaned waters were tested with other toxic waters, results showed that they can indeed remove lead contents within water by 2 parts per billion, which makes the water drinkable by U.S. law. It can also be regenerated easily, making it very sustainable. After this discovery, they are trying to further research about ways to clean up polluted water and air.]]> 2018-03-17 17:43:10 UTC https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/243101960 https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/243102006 This article is about urban land. As more urban land becomes common throughout the country, there is a growing need for forests within them. Urban forests are key for ensuring human well-being and environmental health. Studies have shown that urban land is rapidly increasing, and will only continue to do this as time goes on. According to researchers, urban forests give off healthy benefits such as less air pollution which avoids the problem of respiratory issues, and helping with climate change and energy use. It is estimated that about 5.5 billion trees are included in urban forests and make up to $18 billion in societal benefits. States like New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Delaware are the ones that have the largest amount of urban land, as they have large populations with small amounts of land making the urban forests very beneficial to them.]]> 2018-03-17 17:43:42 UTC https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/243102006 https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/243102599 This article is about the area that makes up Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and southern Turkey. Due to massive climate changes, regional ecosystems and human health are going to be impacted most likely in a negative way, in particular, impacting the duration of winter and summer. Summer will extend by two months, while winter will be decreased by 2 months. This makes summer last for 6 months and winter last for 2 months. Global warming is caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that makes the earth warmer, eventually causing warm seasons to be longer and cold seasons to become shorter. his poses not only dangerous economic issues such as loss of cold weather dependent industries, but also creates a water issue as dry seasons will be longer and rainy seasons will be shorter.]]> 2018-03-17 17:47:18 UTC https://padlet.com/19burnsa/xztejv5iko19/wish/243102599