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12/30/2022 – Consecutive Hours Below Freezing, DFW
The DFW area just experienced its first couple hours with temperatures below freezing. Up to this point, the weather showed no signs of being winter with temperatures around 50-80 degrees Fahrenheit. I want to take this opportunity to analyze the longest consecutive hours below freezing in the past in DFW. As seen from the graph,…
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Environmental Effects of War – 02/27/2022
Currently, a very disastrous event is occurring: war. Russia is invading Ukraine. Although war causes mass casualties to humans, war also effects the environment. War can cause habitat loss, invasive species, and draining of natural resources. Habitat loss is one of the biggest effects of war. Habitat loss can be caused by bombs, chemicals, infrastructure…
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11/23/2022 – Hurricane Ian
This past September, Hurricane Ian attacked the southeastern coast of the U.S. and Cuba. According to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the hurricane cut straight through Florida and reached South Carolina. Homes, towns, and people were demolished. Almost two months later, the reconstruction and recovery process is still going. The stories of deaths…
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9/15/2022 – Rain in Texas?
Currently, I am in the middle of the admissions process, so I am quite busy. However, I do want to point something out. Texas has just come out of an extremely hot summer which included about 45 days where the temperature exceeded 100 degrees. But the past two weeks have been just as weird. Almost…
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8/26/2022 – 100°+ Days this Summer
This summer has been especially hot in Texas. Outdoor activities have been practically inexistent. Personally, as an outgoing person, I sometimes spent days without leaving the house this past summer. Even though Texas has a couple 100°+ days every year, this year was different. According to The National Weather Service, in Dallas/Fort Worth, 2022 ranked…
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8/17/2022 – Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act
$369 billion. Yes – nine zeros – that is how much money going towards environmental action. Yesterday, President Joe Biden just signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. This historic event will bring monumental benefits to many different areas including fighting climate change. The non-profit, EarthJustice, says that this bill will set us on our…
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What can be recycled?
Recently, in my science class, we did a lab where we brought a bag of trash from home and measured the amounts of each type of trash and whether or not it could be recycled. From this lab, I recognized that many of my fellow classmates did not know what they could recycle. For example,…
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02/06/2022 – Tongan eruption
An event that happened very recently was the eruption in Tonga. There was a volcanic eruption and then a tsunami. I remember watching NBC news the day after the event. The damage to the infrastructure was devastating. Plus, the internet cable was destroyed, so it was impossible to communicate to nearby countries like New Zealand.…
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Styrofoam
I recently took part in a volunteering opportunity where we picked up trash from a local trail. To my surprise, most of the trash I ended up with were Styrofoam. This led me to research the effects of Styrofoam on the environment. Although Styrofoam is very popular, convenient, and cheap, it can affect the environment…
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11/07/2021 – Air Quality of China
The pandemic has caused a lot of negative affects, yet their is still a silver lining. Before the pandemic, highly populated cities in China had terrible air quality. There were large concentrations of lung damaging particles in the air that forced many people to wear masks before the pandemic. Personally, I know this issue very…
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