Since the Piney Point leak in Florida sent millions of gallons of toxic water into Tampa Bay last April, scientists and state officials have been handling the problematic legal and environmental aftermath. Many environmentalists and state officials have been concerned that the nutrients in the wastewater could cause algal blooms that have the potential to READ MORE
Author: Natalie Ho
Hi I’m Natalie Ho, a high school student interested in environmental science and sustainability. This blog is dedicated to spreading awareness and information about climate change.
Environmental Crisis in Tampa Bay
In Piney Point, Florida, a tear in a 400 million gallon reservoir at a former phosphate mine put over 300 homes and the surrounding wildlife at risk. Republican Governor Ron DeSantis called the toxic leakage an “imminent hazard” that presented “an immediate and substantial danger to human health, safety, welfare and the environment.” These reservoirs READ MORE
Understanding Air Pollution
Air pollution is the release of both man-made and natural pollutants that cause negative effects on humans and the planet as a whole. These pollutants can take shape as solid particles, liquid droplets, or gaseous chemicals and present themselves in many different forms like carbon monoxide from car emissions or toxic, airborne chemicals from fires. READ MORE
California Wildfires: Causes, Effects, and Solutions
In California, rapidly changing climate creates the perfect conditions for longer and more extreme fire seasons each year. Paired with seasonally dry Santa Ana and Diablo winds, increasing temperatures and dry spells create highly flammable vegetation, which is ideal for wildfires. The dry, windy weather also causes bushfires to spread quickly and unpredictably. Windy and READ MORE
Chemistry’s Role in Climate Change
Chemistry is key to solving climate change. Everything we already know about climate change, and all the progress we have made combatting it, can be attributed to our knowledge of chemistry. We know what climate change is because scientists have sought to understand how greenhouse gases—namely CO2—interact with our atmosphere and oceans, but chemistry has READ MORE
An Overview of Climate Change
Climate change has been a hot topic throughout the news lately. But what is climate change? Weather vs. Climate People often confuse weather and climate. The two are not interchangeable and have very different meanings. Weather relates to the current condition of a specific location in terms of minutes, hours, and even days. Climate, however, READ MORE
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