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Climate change, behind habitat loss, is the second biggest threat to biodiversity and may become the largest factor responsible for species extinctions in the coming years (Chivian et al. 2008). Forests store carbon and loss of this carbon sink can have a large effect on the climate (Bradshaw et al. 2009).

Earth Hour: Trying to save the world from climate change, one switch at a time.

Earth Hour is a movement trying to convince people to turn off their lights for one hour a year.

Think about it. Flipping the light switch off…

The main way environmental activists have tried to get apathetic parties interested in a certain cause is through economic means. If they make a particular conservation effort also economically viable, they stand a better chance of making the effort a reality. I propose a more unorthodox method; use people’s annoyance to further a cause.

This post should really be called “Adventures in Info Hell.”

I have been working all term on a 100 page assignment on a certain topic. I have researched it thoroughly.

When it is completed, I will probably upload the entire project… although…

I didn’t see the new Disneynature film on Earth Day, sadly enough, but I did go and see it before it vacated the big screen.

Earth is a documentary of epic scale.

I grew up watching the discovery channel (before Animal Planet…

The jaguar is an endangered species throughout its territory, but it is most threatened in the southwestern states of the United states, states like Arizona and Texas, where historically, jaguars have roamed.

This post is in response to an article in the Daily Emerald that came out a few weeks ago.

The article was titled “A Global Farce” and addressed the alternate viewpoint that Global Warming is a result of natural causes.

While the article…

If I were rich, I know which car I’d keep in my garage. With a slick body, and acceleration of 0-60 in 3.7 seconds, and of course, a radio you can hook your…