Global Environment

Submitted by: Lauren Watt What if Trump ends up building the wall? Texas’ 1,200 miles of border with Mexico will be separated, ruining habitats and damaging the ecosystem. Biologists are very concerned about the impact this will have on the high biodiversity …

Submitted by: Iris Yuan While you were cheering for your favorite Olympic athletes, dogs were, and still are, being slaughtered for their meat. In South Korea, there are over 17,000 dog meat farms. Before they are killed, the dogs live brutal lives. …

Submitted by: Eileen Guo Actually… it’s alright to drink coffee, but think twice before purchasing a cup of coffee, as the cups make a huge carbon footprint. Though coffee is sold in paper cups, less than 1% of coffee cups will actually …

Submitted by: Aimi Wen Babies. Vulnerable and naive. Yet, they are so important to the survival of a species. Humans, of course, have enough babies– millions and millions of them in fact. However, other animals are not quite so lucky. Baby whales–otherwise …

Submitted by: Aimi Wen For anyone who has been on social media on the past month, they have seen the video of a starving polar bear. Its bones—hip, back, everything—are jutting out. No muscle or well-rounded figure that a polar bear is …

Submitted by: Aimi Wen Who likes dressing up in a muffin-top inducing pants? No one. Who likes lounging at home in sweats? Everyone. Who likes working at home lounging in sweats? Less people, but that is a definitely preferable choice to wearing …

Submitted by: Stephanie Zhang A month ago, Justin and Tori Englehardt readied themselves to clear snow off the hives of their Iowa honey farm—only to find their one supply shed and 50 hives in complete ruin. A couple of boys, aged 12 …

Submitted by: Eileen Guo Once, a man told me, “As you get older, you realize that you really don’t have time. You wish you could have those couple of years you spent pursuing something you didn’t want to pursue back—I wish I …

Submitted by: Stephanie Zhang 16-year-old Jadav ‘Molai’ Payeng, upon stumbling across a sandbar abound with snakes washed up from the floods in 1979, “sat down and wept over their lifeless forms.” Without any tree cover in this area of Indian’s Assam region, …

Submitted by: Stephanie Zhang Cougar, puma, mountain lion, catamount… What’s the difference? In truth, there is none. These multiple names were adopted due to primitive classification techniques based on fur coats and negligible differences in size. But, with genetic testing today, these …