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Domesticated Urban Chipmunks
Chipmunks are one of the most domestic, non-domesticated animals in Canada. With their small size and interesting stripes, they are more cherished and friendly than common black or grey squirrels. These physical traits may have helped chipmunks endear themselves to humans and after receiving gifts of food, they began to expect these treats, and embrace the urban setting rather than be fearful of it.
By Blaise 5 years ago in Earth
FROM THE GROUND UP
Scanning social media as the emergence of yet another in a long line of diseases stemming from animal mistreatment swept through the population, while also reading stories about The Amazon being burned to produce more for a world that already produces enough but just fails to allocate it well, followed by watching as both the west coast of the United States, and portions Australia burned uncontrollably, caused us great distress.
By Victoria L. Jankowski5 years ago in Earth
Saving Our Planet with Gardens
Throughout my life, I have often strayed from the typical way of doing things. I have simply never wanted to follow the regular flow of life that people often mean for us to follow. The moment I turned 18, I drove across the country to take a job working on a farm. I stayed for about 3 months, and then went back home. A few months later, I decided to do it again at another farm. This got me thinking about something. People are so focused on jobs, money, etc, that we don’t focus on the little things. Such as how much a plastic water bottle could ruin the environment, and even then, our concern only lasts a week or two. Remember how everyone wanted to switch to metal straws for awhile, but no one talks about it anymore? Yes, things like that are exactly the problem.
By Luca 5 years ago in Earth
Small, Everyday Choices
Values are the foundation to our policies and lead to how we decide to get things done in life. To be aware of one's impact on their surroundings, especially on a small scale, leads to a momentous shift in consciousness and to procedures changing over time. Current challenges facing today's society are closely related to the boom in human population including, increased rates in global warming, decreased biodiversity, nature fragmentation, shortages in drinking water, over-fishing, pollution, and increased overal carbon emissions.
By Jen Eden5 years ago in Earth
5 Tips to Reduce U.S. Carbon Emissions
As wild as this may sound, if you plan to be alive at any time during the next 100 years, atmospheric carbon is going to impact your life. While there has always been carbon in the atmosphere, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are higher today than at any other point in the last 800,000 years. [1] Over the past 60 years, annual atmospheric CO2 has risen about 100 times faster than any previous natural increase. [2] Scientific consensus overwhelmingly confirms that these increases are fueled by human activities like heating, transportation, electricity, and manufacturing.
By Halle Miroglotta5 years ago in Earth
Save the Turtles. Top Story - May 2021.
Why won't anybody please think of the turtles!!! Image from Sport Diver.org Image from Australian Geographic Pretty dramatic, huh? Rest assured, these pictures are tame compared to the graphic, heartbreaking, gory ones I found while researching my topic. Due to my respect for wildlife, and my mom's intense love for turtles, I won't be showing those. Yes, the reality is often darker than it needs to be. But, if it gets the point across, then it's worth the trouble.
By Rain Dayze5 years ago in Earth
Plastic Plague
I stood in the laboratory door, savoring the feeling of success. I had finally done it; I had achieved my certification in the fields of biochemistry and microbiology at our Dome University and was now called Dr. Aisha Holston. I was ready to begin my career as a scientist, researching the Plastic Plague and ways to end its devastating impacts on our planet Earth. Could I finally achieve my dream to help the suffering life in the Outside? As for what led me to this spot, it all begins many years ago with an early morning walk on the beach…
By Carolyn Frank5 years ago in Earth
"Can you not also build bridges out of stone?"
There is a Monty Python skit where a rabble of pitchfork wielding peasants present a suspected witch to a medieval knight, Sir Bedivere, and ask if they can burn her. As the only man present who “hasn’t got sh*$ all over him,” Bedivere is the defacto village authority, and it falls to him to determine if this unfortunate woman is a witch? With the jostling crowd growing angrier at every passing second, Bedivere delves deep into his stores of medieval logic and pulls out an explanation: witches burn because they are made of wood. So how to prove this woman is made of wood? “Build a bridge out of her!” one man yells. Bedivere wisely considers, but then asks, “but can you not also make bridges out of stone?”
By Daniel Garvin5 years ago in Earth
All About Aluminum Cans Recycling
Aluminum was discovered within the 1820’s and was found to be the foremost plentiful metal on the earth. Since then, aluminum has been accustomed manufacture several things like aluminum cans, gutters, tin foil, and lots of alternative things. In 1972, more or less 26,500 plenty of aluminum cans were recycled and these days that number is calculable to be as high as 800,000 tons. Over 100,000 aluminum cans are recycled each minute within the India alone. Each can that's recycled suggests that additional resources that are offered at a lesser value. Even if the economic edges are easy, there are still plenty of aluminum cans per annum that are being disposed of aboard roadways, in dumpsters, and in workplace trash cans.
By LSKB Aluminium Foils5 years ago in Earth
Small Sacrifices
I create happiness in a lot of ways, like most people. Joy and love is the whole reason we're here, right? To make the best out of this life and find create happiness even if it's to some mundane, you create your own. I create most of my happiness by gardening and tending to my Ivy's, succulents, and floral plants. In order to properly care for a plant you have to cut or trim the leaves of a plants when they start to wither and rot. I have a small pair of scissors dedicated to doing this delicate job, as to not accidentally cut off a healthy leaf.
By Bethany Rose 5 years ago in Earth
To My Beautiful Daughter. Top Story - May 2021.
Sometimes when I miss you, I imagine what you would be doing right now. You would be away at university right now. I imagine you would be happy, you'd have a lot of friends, and I know you'd be doing great. After all, you inherited your grandmother's brains.
By Ronke Babajide5 years ago in Earth
The Hidden World
Many marvelous things in nature can teach us about our world. Our world is well interconnected and well-informed. It is not only animals that gain their strength and energy from carbohydrates, plants also gain their strength from it. Sugar increases the growth process of plants by around 50%. When sugar is in the water that feeds them, it makes them advance even when the water is on an absorbing paper towel with the seed on it. Plants like animals enjoyed conversations, the carbon dioxide of animals helps them grow faster. And animals like a conversation because communication tells them about their community and builds up their food source intelligence. Light does not only advance plants, it is the timepiece of creation. All creatures need the light to help them grow and mature to the stages necessary for multiplication. Without light, all creatures feel depressed and disconnected from the members of their species. Light helps us separate and use our senses. It warms our bodies and gives color to our skin. Our skin is like a canopy, the largest organ, that connects animals to their environment and plants have the cells that help them to live off of light. There have been notions that plants understand the power of light, they bloom when light warms the ground and bend towards that light. Every branch of a tree is a new generation, the tree is neither male nor female, it has both parts. And insects are the matchmakers, they practically irrigate trees and help design their offsprings. A tree is only as strong and tall as its roots. The roots are the brain of the tree and they are the foundation. Trees can move, the wind blows through them and they sing. Trees are the home of animals and insects. Insects instinct is what makes them smart, they learned to be resilient even despite fear and war. They adapt because they want to and have to. As the world changed, so must they, their food supply determined their size and growth. Insect declares war just like warlike animals when they feel threatened they cannot back down. They are taught and trained to fight even when it means extinction. Insects used their bodies as a weapon for they are built for battle. And they use their numbers, the reason they multiply quickly. Insects have a system in place like animal kingdoms and they obey without question. They build communities to govern in distant places. Insects also have affection, they have certain rituals to maturing and friendship. They have certain call and response that keeps them connected. Insects search and discover their world. They adapt to human rulership, homes are a new frontier and they are willing to negotiate terms. Insects like birds teach their offspring instincts and they do not rely on innate instincts alone. Insects know how to sing and dance, for example, bees dance over tree sap. Insects can get excited about food sources and fellowship. Reptiles display fear and they have emotions for example snakes fear bigger animals and their instinct tells them to flee when they are alone. Reptiles have caring instincts and they teach their offspring how to hunt. They are willing to die for their offspring. They are vicious because they must set an example and they are threatened the most because food can be scarce in the water and their flexibility is limited. The sun is not the only light giver, the stars and the moon help animals and creatures to live at night especially if they are sensitive to the day and this applies in the desert. Some creatures see the moon as guidance and the stars help them figure out where they are in the world. Some creation is meant to live in the night and rest in the day. And this can be true for fish and water creatures. Some creatures have a rest strategy which humans can learn if adapt, where they rest and hunt non-stop and continually. Their homeostasis and metabolism keep them in this incredible state of urgency.
By Distinguished Honorary Alumni Dr. Matthew Primous5 years ago in Earth