Environment problems

Without a healthy environment, we cannot have a prosperous economy and society. Humans have been destroying the environment since the Industrial Revolution, and now wildlife and humans are paying the …

"According to National Geographic, an astonishing 91 percent of plastic doesn't actually get recycled." Learning this was shocking to me. The current recycling system is utterly inefficient. It relies…

Fish are dying. In Country Vista, two middle schoolers discovered that a pollution problem is killing fish, disrupting the river ecosystem and negatively affecting humans. The river ecosystem is impo…

Limiting the usage of cars has been a talk and debate all around the globe and yet the usage of cars is still at an all time high. Many statistics show cars' effects on the world that we live in such …

Imagine going on vacation and making a friend. When it's time to go back home, you decide to write to each other. Imagine learning that you can't be friends with her anymore because she doesn't have e…

It is a known fact that the Earth's temperatures are rising at an unsustainable rate, but there are those who believe this cannot be true. As temperatures rise, the ice in the Arctic melts causing Ear…

Environmental pollution has been a hot topic for decades across the world and people are constantly looking for ways to reduce their negative impacts on the environment. Every country faces pollutants…

The year is currently 2021. Carbon dioxide emissions are at an all-time high and show no signs of being reduced. Fossil fuels and other carbon-based resources are used much more than the resources tha…

The first 'synthetic fertilizer' was made from crushing up bones and adding it into the soil ("History..."), but the man who created modern synthetic fertilizers was a German scientist named Fritz Hab…

Textile mills today rely on water throughout the production process for making textile and garments. They use, on average, 10,000 liters of water to produce only 1 kg of raw cotton. Making satisfactor…