Climate Change by https://padlet.com/lenahariz/yy6vjrc137f4 en-us 2017-05-03 09:15:47 UTC 2025-03-15 07:20:28 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Thunder.png China Climate Air Pollution lenahariz https://padlet.com/lenahariz/yy6vjrc137f4/wish/169624536 China has the worst air pollution because of their factories. Since china burns 47% of the world’s coal, they (or more specifically Beijing) have gone over the 300 threshold meaning that the air is unsafe to breath.
Children cannot play outside because of the toxic air There are even places called cancer villages that are named that because if you live there, you are at a risk of receiving cancer including liver, kidney and stomach cancer. ]]> 2017-05-03 09:22:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lenahariz/yy6vjrc137f4/wish/169624536 China's Biodiversity mathilde407 https://padlet.com/lenahariz/yy6vjrc137f4/wish/170348756 China's biodiversity is facing a critical issue situation where 15 - 20% of the plants in china is threatening to extinction including the  40,000 species related to them! China is also facing deforestation and loss of habitat like bamboo in witch is needed for the pandas to survive. Instead they are struggling. The elephant population is also decreasing because of human use for ivory.

]]> 2017-05-07 09:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lenahariz/yy6vjrc137f4/wish/170348756 China's Water Pollution lenahariz https://padlet.com/lenahariz/yy6vjrc137f4/wish/170350393 The water pollution in china has increased immensely. More than half of china’s surface water in undrinkable because of the risk of getting cancer, and one-fourth of that water cannot even be used for industrial purposes. There was an incident with chemicals leaking into the Huangpu River that caused thousands of pigs to float dead past Shanghai. As if that wasn’t enough, more than 20 people were hospitalized. ]]> 2017-05-07 10:11:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lenahariz/yy6vjrc137f4/wish/170350393 MLA: lenahariz https://padlet.com/lenahariz/yy6vjrc137f4/wish/170350903 Hernández, Javier C. "Climate Change May Be Intensifying China’s Smog Crisis." CNBC. CNBC, 24 Mar. 2017. Web. 07 May 2017.

Lallanilla, Marc. "China's Top 6 Environmental Concerns." LiveScience. Purch, 15 Mar. 2013. Web. 07 May 2017.

"Biodiversity." Biodiversity. China Internet Information Center, n.d. Web. 07 May 2017.

Alter, Lloyd. "The Vertical Forest Comes to China." TreeHugger. Treehugger, 01 May 2017. Web. 07 May 2017.

Economy, Elizabeth C. "China's Environmental Challenge: Political, Social and Economic Implications." Council on Foreign Relations. Council on Foreign Relations, 27 Jan. 2003. Web. 09 May 2017.

Press, Associated. "Man Sucks up Beijing's Polluted Air, Makes Brick from Collected Dust. hindustantimes. Hindustan Times, 01 Dec. 2015. Web. 09 May 2017

Metcalfe, John. "Beijing's Smog Is So Bad You Can Mold It Into a Brick." CityLab. City Lab, 02 Dec. 2015. Web. 09 May 2017.]]> 2017-05-07 10:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lenahariz/yy6vjrc137f4/wish/170350903 Solution - Tree Buildings lenahariz https://padlet.com/lenahariz/yy6vjrc137f4/wish/170351432 China is also building buildings covered in trees and plants that will be  covering over 6000 planting areas, where it will provide 25 tons of CO2 absorption each year and will provide with 60 kg of air every day.

]]> 2017-05-07 10:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lenahariz/yy6vjrc137f4/wish/170351432 Solution - Ink printer mathilde407 https://padlet.com/lenahariz/yy6vjrc137f4/wish/170351601 A person in India named Anirudh Sharma, has invented a way to harvest black smoke (the kind from cars and chimneys) and repurpose it into printer ink. In conclusion this project has invented a way to use pollution into printer ink.]]> 2017-05-07 10:38:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lenahariz/yy6vjrc137f4/wish/170351601 Vocab Definitions lenahariz https://padlet.com/lenahariz/yy6vjrc137f4/wish/170665206 Biodiversity: A variety of plants and animals 
Ecosystem services: The benefits the people get from the ecosystem. It is divided into 4 parts 
  1. Supporting
  2. Provisioning
  3. Regulating
  4. Cultural
]]> 2017-05-09 04:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lenahariz/yy6vjrc137f4/wish/170665206 Human Behaviour Causes the Environment lenahariz https://padlet.com/lenahariz/yy6vjrc137f4/wish/170665380
  • Because of china’s degradation and pollution, the public face health crisis, mass migration, forced resettlement and social unrest. All these consequences are because of the failure of environmental consideration. 
  • When a country becomes more populated with people the more factory that come and the more factories there are the more pollution there is 
  • The more people that are in the country the more cars are needed to go around and the more gas is needed.
    • ]]>     2017-05-09 04:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lenahariz/yy6vjrc137f4/wish/170665380     Brick made from Smoke mathilde407 https://padlet.com/lenahariz/yy6vjrc137f4/wish/170666194 The Chinese Artist Wang Renzheng from China invented a vacuum that can suck in pollution and make it into a brick. It took 4 hours for the past 100 days to make it.]]> 2017-05-09 04:25:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lenahariz/yy6vjrc137f4/wish/170666194