blog due on 1/31

Energy in China and Health Impacts of Coal

http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/18/technology/china-us-clean-energy-solar-farm/index.html

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-coal-kills/

3-2-1 response on your blog

blog due on 1/24

Environmental Impacts of Fracking

https://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/health/case_studies/hydrofracking_w.html

also check out (its short) http://www.climatecentral.org/news/regulations-may-limit-north-dakota-oil-flares-18204

Around ~$1 million dollars worth of natural gas is flared off in North Dakota EVERY DAY from fracking.... just saying 300 million cubic feet of flared methane A DAY cannot be a good thing

Blog due on 1/17

The Haunting Legacy of South Africa's Gold Mines

http://e360.yale.edu/features/the_haunting_legacy_of_south_africas_gold_mines

A bit longer, but you have tomorrow off school, so shouldn't be a problem

Optional: radioactive mine waste (short but good):  http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/stevens1/

Blog due on 1/10

2 short articles over soil salinization

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

https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/310365/Irrigation-salinity-causes-and-impacts.pdf

3-2-1 response on your blogs (3 things you learned, 2 ways it relates to APES, 1 new question)