Author: ramiz35@yahoo.ca
Nuclear weapons have caused much damage to the environment and are the only devices ever created that have the capacity to destroy all complex life forms on Earth. Yet every year, the nine nuclear armed-nations divert vast sums of taxpayers’ money into producing, maintaining and modernizing weapons of mass destruction, approximately $91.4 billion in 2023 alone. “One year of nuclear weapons spending could pay for wind power for more than 12 million homes to help combat climate change, plant one million trees a minute, or clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for 187 years in a row,” argues the director of…
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa.– Tannah Hendrickson, rising senior environmental science major, was awarded the Helen R. Ferguson Scholarship at the annual awards night of the Bartramian Audubon Society on May 13 at the Jennings Environmental Education Center in Slippery Rock, Pa.Hendrickson earned the honor for her academic achievements in environmental science and enthusiastic participation in the Westminster Bee Company, a student-run business that markets and sells raw honey produced at Westminster College’s bee apiary. Dr. Diana Ortiz, associate professor of biology, introduced Hendrickson as part of the award ceremony.“Tannah has been an active student in our program and has also landed a…
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) – The state of Florida saw three shark attacks in the month of June, on top of an attack on a West Virginia teen in North Carolina. The headlines are leaving tourists and swimmers on edge.“It’s very unlikely to happen. You’re much more likely to be struck by lighting,” said Dr. Thomas Jones at Marshall University.Jones has been the assistant professor of environmental science at Marshall for the last two decades. He teaches a tropical ecology class, taking students around the world to study the ocean.“I spend a lot of time not only in the oceans, but…