Pelican Removed from Endangered List
The Associated Press
11/12/2009
New York Times
Summary: The Pelican went on the Endangered List in 1970 by Interior Department officials. The reason they were at risk was because the fish they ate were tainted with pesticides, causing their eggs to have really thin shells and break. The brown pelican fled and was able to reproduce safely which brought them out of risk.
Response: This article is not important. The pelican isn't that big of deal and they don't give enough information in the article. It is good they are informing people about the tainted fish issue, and the fact that the animal is not at risk anymore.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
11/15/09 Blog #17
Turtles Are Casualties of Warming in Costa Rica
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/science/earth/14turtles.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Elisabeth Rosenthal
11/13/2009
New York Times
Summary: The Pacific turtle population has vastly diminished due to the haphazard development and warmer temperatures that link to global warming. Playa Grande, Costa Rica was a tourist attraction known for their sea turle museum. However with the leatherbacks being threatened with extinction, Playa Grande’s expansive turtle museum was abandoned three years ago.
Response: This article is important because its expressing a larger issue than the decrease in the Pacifiic sea turtles, its expressing the disaster of global warming. Global warming is becoming a huge issue and the sea turtles dieing because of it is only one of the smaller problems.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Blog #16 11/7/09
Title: Mt. Kilimanjaro Ice Cap Continues Rapid Retreat
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/world/africa/03melt.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Author: SINDYA N. BHANOO
Date: November 2, 2009
Source: New York Times
Summary: The ice cap on Mount Kilimanjara in Tanzania has been rapidly declining 26 percent since 2000. Eighty five percent of the ice that was present there in 1912 has vanished, however scientists are not sure whether or not that is due to global warming. It is uncertain whether the melting is due to human activity or climatological influences.
Response: It is definitely not a good thing that this ice cap is rapidly melting, however it is good to hear that it might not be due to global warming. Something needs to be done quickly to solve this melting ice cap issue. We all need to make better choices to save the earth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/world/africa/03melt.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Author: SINDYA N. BHANOO
Date: November 2, 2009
Source: New York Times
Summary: The ice cap on Mount Kilimanjara in Tanzania has been rapidly declining 26 percent since 2000. Eighty five percent of the ice that was present there in 1912 has vanished, however scientists are not sure whether or not that is due to global warming. It is uncertain whether the melting is due to human activity or climatological influences.
Response: It is definitely not a good thing that this ice cap is rapidly melting, however it is good to hear that it might not be due to global warming. Something needs to be done quickly to solve this melting ice cap issue. We all need to make better choices to save the earth.
Blog #15 11/8/09
Title: Creating a Landfill to Have Cleaner Air
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/science/earth/08tva.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Author: The Associated Press
Date: November 7,2009
Source: New York Times
Summary: In order to clean the air, a landfill needs to be created. Smokestack scrubbers will eliminate most
sulfur emissions produced from coal by the Kingston Fossil Plant, but there is no way for total elimination. Sulfur dioxide is produced by burning fossil fuels, and it contributes to the harsh pollutants such as acid rain.
Response: It is better to clean the air, even though making a landfill is required. We all breathe the air, it needs
to be clean. I hate seeing the gross black smoke coming out of the smokestacks downtown, and hopefully soon Detroit will scrub their smokestacks to emiminate some of the sulfur emissions.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Blog # 15, 11/1/09
Title: Thirsty Plant Dries Out Yemen
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/world/middleeast/01yemen.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Author: Robert F. Wroth
Date: October 31, 2009
Source: New York Times
Summary: "More than half of this country’s scarce water is used to feed an addiction." The water wells are running dry, and deep, ominous cracks have begun opening in the parched earth. In the village of Yemen, farmer's crops are turning increasingly to a thirsty plant called qat. Qat are leaves which when consumed act as a narcotic, the addiction being fed by the country's scarce water.
Response: This article makes me think. I don't understand why the farmers just don't change their ways and grow other crops in order to make their profit. They dont only need qat in order to make money, they could grow something else that doesn't consume so much water.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/world/middleeast/01yemen.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Author: Robert F. Wroth
Date: October 31, 2009
Source: New York Times
Summary: "More than half of this country’s scarce water is used to feed an addiction." The water wells are running dry, and deep, ominous cracks have begun opening in the parched earth. In the village of Yemen, farmer's crops are turning increasingly to a thirsty plant called qat. Qat are leaves which when consumed act as a narcotic, the addiction being fed by the country's scarce water.
Response: This article makes me think. I don't understand why the farmers just don't change their ways and grow other crops in order to make their profit. They dont only need qat in order to make money, they could grow something else that doesn't consume so much water.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Blog # 13 10/29/09
Title: Polar Bears vs. Development in Alaska
Author: Stefan Milkowski
Date: 10/29/09Source: New York Times
Summary: The Alaskan Governor promised 200,000 square miles of land, and ice for the polar bears under the Endangered Species Act.According to the Polar Bear Specialists Group, just one of the 19 subpopulations of bears is increasing, eight are declining and three are stable.
Response: Sense climate change is the biggest threat to polar bears, the Alaskan Government giving 200,000 square miles to the species is more then nessesary. They are close to becoming extinct, and they need to be protected. THis land outlaws all hunting and developing on the polar bears property which gives them the space they need to survive.
Response: Sense climate change is the biggest threat to polar bears, the Alaskan Government giving 200,000 square miles to the species is more then nessesary. They are close to becoming extinct, and they need to be protected. THis land outlaws all hunting and developing on the polar bears property which gives them the space they need to survive.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Blog #12 10/23/09
Title: To Cut Global Warming, Swedes Study Their Plates.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/world/europe/23degrees.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Author: Elisabeth Rosenthal
Date: 10/22/09
Source: New York Times
Summary: Changing one’s diet can be as effective in reducing emissions of climate-changing gases as changing the car one drives. The Swedish National Food Administration was given the task last year of creating new food guidelines giving equal weight to climate and health. For example, it has been recommended that Swedes eat carrots instead of cucumbers, because the cucumbers are grown in heated greenhouses that consume energy.
Response: I am happy to read this article, it is good that countries around the world are trying to "go green," hopefully soon more and more will jump on the band wagon. If we want to save this beautiful earth from global warming countries around the world need to start making smarter choices.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/world/europe/23degrees.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Author: Elisabeth Rosenthal
Date: 10/22/09
Source: New York Times
Summary: Changing one’s diet can be as effective in reducing emissions of climate-changing gases as changing the car one drives. The Swedish National Food Administration was given the task last year of creating new food guidelines giving equal weight to climate and health. For example, it has been recommended that Swedes eat carrots instead of cucumbers, because the cucumbers are grown in heated greenhouses that consume energy.
Response: I am happy to read this article, it is good that countries around the world are trying to "go green," hopefully soon more and more will jump on the band wagon. If we want to save this beautiful earth from global warming countries around the world need to start making smarter choices.
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