Submitted by: May Leng On October 2nd, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi ratified the Paris agreement, a pact that aims to keep the Earth’s change in temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius. However, in a rapidly developing country that is heavily dependent …

Submitted by: Eileen Guo The oil you use for cooking and the oil you use to fill up the engine of your car have a high probability of leaking and flowing into the ocean. Since oil is hydrophobic, it will not dissolve …

Submitted by: Jasmine Pao Lights flash as Corinne Lepage, the former French Minister of the Environment, takes to the podium to give the opening statement of the Monsanto Tribunal. The Tribunal and People’s Assembly took place between October 14 to 16, 2016 …

Submitted by: Stephanie Zhang In Hawaiian folklore, two star-crossed lovers, Naupaka and Kaui, were destined to be forever separated. Naupaka took the flower from her ear and tore it in two, giving the other half to Kaui, so each of them would …

Submitted by: Eileen Guo 100,000 deaths. 500,000 ill. 16 million dollars in damage. These were all caused by the forest fires that currently plague Indonesia. The biggest concern is the air pollution from these fires, as tiny particles from the forest fires …

Submitted by: Helena Li After many years of negotiating, 24 countries and the European Union reached an agreement last Friday to establish the world’s largest marine protected area in Antarctica’s Ross Sea. The Ross Sea is sometimes called the “Last Ocean” because …

Submitted by: May Leng In May of 2016, a volcano located 30 miles from Costa Rica’s capital city San José suddenly began to spew smoke and ash 9,840 feet (almost 2 miles) into the air. Dust wafted over the city, and buildings …

Submitted by: Roy Lin Throughout Earth’s history, there have been many ages, including epochs, eras, and periods. For almost 12,000 years now, we humans have been living in the Holocene epoch, an environmentally stable time with resources for us to spend. But …

Submitted by: Stephanie Zhang Back in the 1980s, farmer Wendell Naraghi tried to appeal to the organic sector of customers. It was a flop. “Basically, we stopped because no one paid me,” Mr. Naraghi said. “There just was no market premium for …

Submitted by: Ariel Yang Airports are extremely valuable in large cities and islands, but the lack of land and space has forced scientists to turn their interest to the sea. Some have proposed an interesting idea: what if we build the runways …