Blog due on 1/27

Read the following short blurb on oil and its environmental impact

http://environment-ecology.com/energy-and-environment/92-how-does-oil-impact-the-environment.html

The watch this about coal mining (2 minutes long)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOoVtmORk0k

Reply in the 3-2-1 format

Blog due on 1/20

Acid Mine Drainage- Big Deal

Read the following 3 sections only: summary, environmental impacts, prevention and mitigation
http://www.groundtruthtrekking.org/Issues/MetalsMining/AcidMineDrainage.html

Next read this:
http://www3.epa.gov/reg3wapd/nps/mining.html?tab=2#acid (no need to read what is above it, and you will need to know 1 passive and 1 active treatment and how they work)

Reply in the 3-2-1 format:

·             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 1/13

Soil Salinization (important AP topic!)

Please read both (neither is long), we will discuss in class and you will see this on your TEST

Article: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/earths-soil-getting-too-salty-crops-grow-180953163/?no-ist

Additional info from A&M http://publications.tamu.edu/SOIL_CONSERVATION_NUTRIENTS/PUB_soil_Managing%20Soil%20Salinity.pdf

Blog due on 1/6

Short article on how fracking and deep injection wells are affecting tectonic activity (wait... you mean drilling for natural gas causes earthquakes? mind - blown)

http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/23/oklahoma-earthquakes-caused-by-fracking/

reply in the 3-2-1 format using your blog

additional info: http://seismo.berkeley.edu/blog/seismoblog.php/2015/04/22/fracking-injecting-and-quakes