Submitted by: Eileen Guo The South China Tiger population was estimated to be about 4,000 tigers in the early 1950s. In the next few decades, thousands of tigers were killed as the subspecies was hunted as a pest. The Chinese government banned …
Read More »Monkeys Precious As Gold
Submitted by: Mengyu Liu The environment is polluted; lots of animals are in danger now. Humans have destroyed animals’ habitats, causing countless deaths of countless species. One of my favorite species, which also happens to be on the Red List of endangered …
Read More »How Sharks Save Lives
Despite their fearsome and often incorrect reputation, sharks are essential for our marine ecosystem’s survival. Statistically, shark attacks kill less than one person per year. The ocean provides ⅓ of our world’s food, produces the most oxygen in the world, removes half …
Read More »Oceanic Pollution
By: Amy Yao Human trash in the ocean has negatively affected the environment through the use of littering many tons of plastic debris to create an enormous patch of garbage in the ocean. Humans are becoming increasingly irresponsible and cleaning up ourselves …
Read More »What’s Black, White, And Asian?!
By: Eileen Guo In a jungle, the panda does not have any real predators, but still they are endangered. As humans are threatening and cutting down their bamboo, there are only 1,800 pandas left in the world. Pandas are considered one of …
Read More »Elephants Are Our Friends
By: Cindy Guo Over the course of only one month, recently, a single African city has lost over sixty elephants from illegal killing. On a yearly average, Africa as a whole loses around 30,000 elephants to greedy hunters. They first butcher off …
Read More »The Greatest Problem
By: Jade Liu Problems regarding the environment have become extremely serious all over the world. Due to the destruction of World War One and Two as well as the development of industry and agriculture after the war, natural sources are being plundered …
Read More »Winter the Dolphin
By: Eileen Guo Thanksgiving and Christmas are both right around the corner, and you may be debating on where to go for vacation. Why don’t you go to an aquarium? Don’t roll your eyes! Not just an ordinary aquarium; it’s the Clearwater …
Read More »Saving Mother Nature
Submitted by: Amy Yao Did you know the world’s rainforests are currently disappearing at a rate of 6000 acres every hour? More than half the rainforests in the world have been chopped down, resulting in only 2.5 billion acres left. When these …
Read More »What Industries Can Do
Submitted by: Mengyu Liu Protecting the environment is really important nowadays. Some chemistry factories let those pollutants go into the water and lakes are polluted. Even the atmosphere is polluted by the waste gas. It’s necessary for human beings to do something …
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