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The two mounds play with my mind when I realized how they have strategically trapped me into their straight. Trying to flee and break away, I tiptoed my way around—towards the grassy patches—attemping to maintain the cleanliness of my feet. Deceived by the solid ground, the misleading hard surface caves as my body weight dives deeper into the Earth. The ambush triggers my fight and flight response and I transfer all my pressure onto my ten tiny joints and —. The balance break

Article: The role of meat in strategies to achieve a sustainable diet lower in greenhouse gas emissions Why I Chose It When I was in middle school, my science class spent a unit learning about climate change and the science behind it. To me, climate change had just been this really stressful, sad topic about pollution, extinction, and waste, which kind of bummed me out as I’m sure it did many other people. I was really excited to learn about this issue that I’d been told was

Over the past few months in our Environmental Science 2 class, our group has been raising brook trout from eggs in our fish tank, aiming to track fish behavior in the Deerfield River. Rating Water temp pH Ammonia Nitrite Nitrate KH GH 5 Goal ± 0.5° 7 ± 0.2 0 0 0-10 80 75 4 Goal ± 2.0° 7 ± 0.5 0.25 0.5 25 80 ± 40 75 ± 50 3 Goal ± 3.5° 7 ± 1 0.5 1 50 80 ± 80 80 ± 75 2 Goal ± 5.0° 7 ± 2 1 3 100 80 ± 120 80 ± 100 1 Goal ± 6.5+ 7 ± 3+ 3+ 5+ 250 80 ± 160+ 80 ± 125+ Our two main re

Article: The Scientists Making Antacids for the Sea to Help Counter Global Warming by Ferris Jabr for The New York Times. Abstract Ocean acidification is a detrimental and rapidly occurring process happening to the ocean, harming marine life and lessening the ability for carbon sequestration due to destabilizing of calcifiers. In order to mitigate this problem, scientists have replicated the natural stabilizing processes of mineral runoff into the ocean to raise pH and ther

Article: Study finds wide variation in Amazon's response to degradation and climate change (published August 23, 2025): Yale article on Tipping Points of Amazonian Forests: Beyond Myths and Toward Solutions, a study by Paulo M. Brando et al. (2025). Source Reflection I chose this article because of my initial interest in Amazon due to COP30’s location in Brazil. I wanted to understand the ecosystems in the area in order to understand the perspectives and politics of the Unit