The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

A garbage patch means the trash in a specific area of the world. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch refers…

The Land of 10,000 Lakes

I’ve grown up in Minnesota, outside of the city where I am constantly surrounded by lakes. One lake in particular…

Zebra Mussels Infesting Lakes

Reflecting on my last post, lakes are a big part of life in Minnesota. In 1988, Dreissena Polymorpha, or…

Ocean Dead Zones

Marine life needs to have a certain amount of oxygen in their environment- the water- in order to survive. When there isn’t…

Rivers Cause India’s Agricultural Crisis

Rivers are Earth’s arteries. In some civilizations, rivers are at the center of daily…

Ozone Layer Changing our Oceans

A hole in the ozone layer can lead to many effects on our environment. For example, there is a hole in…

Water Scarcity

70% of planet Earth is covered in water. Sounds like a lot, right? Well surprisingly, we are running out of freshwater- meaning the…

ALGAE FOR THE WIN.

Everything humans do is connected to the Earth. The chemicals we use daily end up in rivers, lakes, and oceans… harming our fish and…

Simple Steps To Take- Saving The Blue

Our oceans, lakes, and rivers have been in the news more and more recetly inregards to the…

Our Ocean’s Issues

Our world takes so much out of the ocean, returning the favor by putting so much garbage back into it. Oceans are such an…