Tag: environment

Art is a great tool to reflect the core of society. Sometimes, people can have a better vision of one country through pictures. These...

Refusing single-use plastic straws is the newest "in". In order to save the planet one must purchase a reusable metal straw and carry it...

One of the most popular world crisis topics of the past few years has been the use of single-use plastics. The lack of concern...

Written by Kathleen Malone. Media by Kelsey Middleton. With natural disasters ravaging the country, reporters are obviously interested in providing coverage on the effects they cause....

Written and media by Momoka Murata. Have you ever heard of Meatless Monday? Since several U.S. municipalities adopted the idea, it has become a public movement....

When looking up the definition of the word "sustainable", I found two definitions: "able to be maintained at a certain rate or level" and "able to be upheld or defended". While both of these definitions are valid, I think that they are also quite different. The first definition seems to be talking about something that needs to be kept up and as it says "maintained". But, the second definition says something that n

Water systems that have ground water sourced may be susceptible to fecal contamination. In many cases, fecal contaminations can contain disease causing pathogens. The GWR will provide increased protection against microbial pathogens” (water.epa.gov). “Why is EPA taking a risk-based approach to protect drinking water provided by ground water systems? An evaluation of data on outbreaks and the occurrence of waterborne viral and bacterial pathogens and indicators of fecal contamination in ground water supplying public water systems (PWS) wells indicate that there is a subset of ground water systems (GWS) that are susceptible to fecal contamination” (water.epa.gov).