Blog due 12/10

DDT and risk assessment

http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/files/ddt.pdf

Instead of the usual 3-2-1 format, answer questions 1-5 at the end of the reading

Blog due on 12/3 - but look at before the 1st please!

Human population growth and the environment

http://www.howmany.org/environmental_and_social_ills.php

reply in the 3-2-1 format

Blog due on 11/25

Low oil prices good for the environment?

http://registerguard.com/rg/news/32420354-76/can-low-oil-prices-be-good-for-the-environment.html.csp

Reply in the usual 3-2-1 format

Blog due on 11/19

Human population growth (clip)

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth?language=en#t-583961

Reply in the 3-2-1 format

Blog due on 11/12

Populations and disease

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/fungus-threatens-banana-supply-n85971

Reply in the 3-2-1 format

Blog due on 11/5

2 short articles this week

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141030133051.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141028145432.htm

using both articles, reply in the usual 3-2-1 format

Blog due on 10/29

What are the effects of the destruction of mangrove forests and how does it affect biodiversity?

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=48931#.VEfCrRburKc

Reply in the 3-2-1 format

Blog due on 10/22 DONT FORGET CH 5 QUIZ WEDNESDAY!!

Invasive species- what are they and why are they a bad thing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byHShIHgMw4

Reply in the 3-2-1 format

Blog due on 10/15

What is biodiversity and why you should care:

http://www.globalissues.org/article/170/why-is-biodiversity-important-who-cares

Read the whole thing, all sub sections (except the 'more information' one)

Reply in the 3-2-1 format, but in case you forgot:  3 things you found out from the article. 2 ways this applies to Environmental Science.  1 question you now have after reading the article

Blog due on 10/8

How is climate change affecting artic biomes?

http://e360.yale.edu/feature/arctic_tundra_is_being_lost_as_far_north_quickly_warms/2229/

Post your reply in the 3-2-1 format

Blog due on 10/1

El Nino and Texas:

Watch this: http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.watcyc.eselnino/earth-system-el-nintildeo/ (2:44)

Then read http://kxan.com/2014/05/07/texas-turns-drought-ending-hopes-to-el-nino/

Reply in the usual 3-2-1 format

Blog due on 9/24

How are humans affecting the Nitrogen cycle?

http://scied.ucar.edu/longcontent/changing-nitrogen-cycle

Reply in the 3-2-1 format

Blog due on 9/17

First Blog of the year! Connecting land and sea ecosystems

http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_vital_chain_connecting_the_ecosystems_of_land_and_sea/2529/

reply in the 3-2-1 format:

·            A) 3 things you found out from the article

·            B) 2 ways this applies to Environmental Science

·            C) 1 question you now have after reading the article

Summer Assignment

Don't forget about the summer assignment! It's due the first Friday of class! If youre looking for local environmental issues in Texas check out http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/

New APES students

While you have the summer to complete your assignment, dont wait til the last second. The completed assignment will be due the FIRST friday of the 2014-2015 school year.

And just to keep you informed, check out what our roads could look like in the near future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTA3rnpgzU

Blog due on 4/23

2 Articles (1 short, 1 medium) over environmental impacts of land use

1-2 questions from each will appear on your next quiz/test. You have been warned

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/july27/lands-072705.html
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_other_inconvenient_truth_the_crisis_in_global_land_use/2196/

Reply in the 3-2-1 format as always

Blog due on 4/16

Rising Seas: How climate change affects sea levels and countries around the world

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/03/27/world/climate-rising-seas.html?_r=0

Reply in the usual 3-2-1 format

Blog due on 4/9

Can he tie air pollution and climate change together? Yes. Yes he can.

http://grist.org/climate-energy/vice-goes-to-greenland/

Find out how the Greenland ice sheet is affected by climate change and air pollution

Reply in the usual 3-2-1 format

Blog due on 4/2

How does crappy air effect your health?

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/air-pollution-causes-7-million-deaths-in-a-year-report-finds-9223393.html

Additional (optional) reading: France bans cars over air pollution?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-bans-half-of-all-cars-from-the-road-over-pollution-fears-9195307.html

Reply is the usual 3-2-1

Blog due on 3/26

Do cows pollute as much as cars?

 

http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/cows-cause-pollution-than-cars

Be sure to watch Bill Nye's clip at the bottom as well.  For further reading (and because fox news actually published it...) check out http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/11/26/big-methane-burp-cows-refineries-spew-gas/

Reply in the usual 3-2-1 format

Blog due on 3/12

The great garbage patch (2 short articles)

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/11/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-poses-new-threat-to-marine-life/

http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-news/ocean-trash-plaguing-our-sea

Respond in the usual 3-2-1 format

Blog Due on 3/5

Where is your shower and drinking water coming from!?!

http://www.khou.com/news/Houston-counting-on-North-Texas-wastewater-for-years-to-come-139494988.html

Reply in the 3-2-1 format

Blog Due on 2/26

Hydrogen Prelab reading, still use the 3-2-1 format

Blog due on 2/12

A bit lenghty but a solid read

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.04/hydrogen_pr.html

Reply in the usual 3-2-1

Blog due on 2/5

A Scarcity of Rare Metals Is Hindering Green Technologies?

http://e360.yale.edu/mobile/feature.msp?id=2711

Respond in the usual 3-2-1 format

Blog due on 1/29

Mercury everywhere! (but mostly from coal fired power plants...)

http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/sources.asp

Reply in the 3-2-1 format

Blog due on 1/22

China and its mining practices

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/business/international/china-tries-to-clean-up-toxic-legacy-of-its-rare-earth-riches.html?_r=0

Reply in the 3-2-1 format

Blog Due on 1/15

Salinization of Rivers: a global environmental problem (with erosion and mining implications)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130111092529.htm

Reply in the usual 3-2-1 format: 3 things you found out from the article, 2 ways it applies to environmental science, and 1 question you have after reading the article