Great Way Of Cleaning Your Cooking And Drinking Water The use for water filters have increased over the past couple of years as users have become more informed about what kind of chemicals and bacteria can be found in the water they so freely drink. There are many water filters … Read more
What is evaporation? Evaporation occurs two ways. One happens as part of the natural water cycle and is directly related to the sun’s heat. The other is by means of intentionally boiling or heating any liquid. Evaporation Evaporation plays an important role in the water cycle. As the solar energy … Read more
Most of the highly developed spaces that human beings create and inhabit are not exhibit biodiversity: large industrial farms, sprawling lawns, concrete-covered city blocks. When we go outside, in nature, we see examples of biodiversity and that is one reason that natural spaces are so valuable; they demonstrate to us … Read more
Atrazine is a popular organic-compound herbicide used widely in the world, used heavily in the United States, but banned in the European Union. It is an effective pre- and post-emergence weed-killer, making it attractive to larger-scale agricultural operations where profit margins are thin, though it has been shown to cause … Read more
Sunday. It seems appropriate enough for civilizations to dedicate an entire day to the sun. The Sun has been a source of mythology, religion and the focus of science. And for good reason, without it we would all be dead. The sun emits gives planet Earth more than 99.97% of … Read more
The idea and principles of environmental preservation in the United States and in any part of the world is widely viewed as the act of setting aside precious and now-limited natural resources to avoid damage in any forms caused by man-made intervention. Such human demands on the environment include the … Read more
For hundreds of millions of years the world had no coal reserves. So where does coal come from now? Coal is a fossil fuel made from the carbon atoms locked up in plants that lived millions of years ago. 345 to 280 million years ago, the world was mostly covered … Read more
The phenomenon known as thermal pollution may also be classified as a type of water pollution since it is an unfavorable change in the physical, chemical, and biological properties of a natural body of water due to a dramatic shift in temperature within that same body of water. Whether the … Read more
Forget about climate change for now. Soil erosion is a major contributor to such talk. One of the most ubiquitous problems that affects the United States and the rest of the world, look no farther than the edge of your plate. What food you see there, unless you purchased locally … Read more
A microclimate, as the name implies, is a unique and “micro” climate found within a broader area with different climate conditions. A microclimate can be created naturally or purposefully through landscaping and building placement. One example of a microclimate is a small grove of planted trees. The trees retain more … Read more
Global warming (also referred to as Climate Change) is a complex issue which is difficult to tease out the human and the non-human causes. The precise causes of global warming are not crystal clear; whether humans are the cause, the Earth’s natural cycle or a combination of both is still … Read more
Think of some of your favorite foods. Yogurt, bread, sauerkraut, pickles. Drinks? Beer, cider, kombucha. What do they have in common? They’re fermented. Fermentation not only makes food nutritious and tasty, it’s also an ancient form of food preservation, born from time-honored rituals that were practiced long before anyone could … Read more
Piles of leaves are either a chore to clean up or a pleasure to jump into, depending who you are. Each fall, leaves throughout the world turn bright orange, red and yellows displaying the best of fall colors before losing their leaves and scattering the ground with a natural multch. … Read more
What is Ocean Acidification?, What are the Causes and Environmental Influences? Ocean acidification is, simply put, the change of the pH balance of the waters in our oceans. The pH levels of the ocean’s waters drop and this is because the water absorbs what is called anthropogenic carbon dioxide from … Read more
You’ve probably heard the word before, ‘deciduous’ but forgot it’s meaning. The definition of deciduous when it comes to trees is, ‘one that sheds it’s leaves annually’ or ‘tending to fall off’. In contrast to the evergreen, that keeps it’s green needles throughout the year, a deciduous tree goes through … Read more