Saharan Dust Covers Texas

Saharan Dust Covers Texas

What causes the almost annual event where winds carrying dust from the Sahara Desert in Northern Africa create a cloud that ends up in the Gulf of Mexico drowning Houston Texas in a cloud of dust? Nasa officials have reported that over 182 Million tons of dust leave...
Your Clean Clothes Have A Dirty Past.

Your Clean Clothes Have A Dirty Past.

In a culture driven by everchanging style and a societal expectation to stay on trend, fast fashion has quickly grown to be one of the largest global polluters. Many textile factories use toxic chemicals during the manufacturing process often times dumping the runoff...
What is Coral Bleaching?

What is Coral Bleaching?

Often times when we think of coral we think of a multicolored paradise for many marine creatures. Coral actually gets its coloring from algae that feed the coral. The algae live inside the tissue of the coral essentially they share resources in a constantly changing...
The Arctic Warming Hotspot

The Arctic Warming Hotspot

The Northern Barents Sea, which is to the north of Scandinavia has warmed by 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit in just 18 years. An area that is standing out to scientists, it has gained the nickname the Arctic Warming Hotspot. What makes this so interesting is that this sea is...
A Straw’s Tale

A Straw’s Tale

This is the story of a single plastic straw. It’s made of polypropylene, a polymer that doesn’t degrade, doesn’t provide nutrients, and will be around forever, inhabiting what ever environment in which it is left. This straw has a mission, and once...