Ecoreflections
In honor of spring break, in this week’s blog I will showcase some of the most beautiful travel destination spots that are in the most peril due to climate change.
GLACIER MONTANA
Glacier National park is one of the most beautiful regions of Montana. There is camping, backpacking, horseback riding, boating, biking, and tons of hiking. But currently, streams and wat...
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Recently I attended the lecture given by Barbara Lifton regarding the drilling the Marcellus Shale. The Marcellus Shale is basically a giant piece of rock 1-2 miles beneath the surface which runs beneath New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, and contains immense amounts of methane gas trapped in it. Hydraulic fracturing, or “hydrofracking,” is the relative...
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As I was taking notes on my laptop during class today, I noticed I was in the vast minority of people typing on laptops instead of using notebooks. In most of my other classes, at least half of the students use their laptops daily, taking notes, going on Facebook, or other general activities of procrastination. But in this particular class, “Society and Natural Resource...
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“Over the past few months, polls have shown that fewer Americans believe humans are making the planet dangerously warmer, despite a raft of scientific reports that state otherwise.”
This has been a trend lately, and I’m trying to figure out why. Why are many people still so certain that climate change is false, when scientists are finding more evidence every day t...
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Being my first post, I will start this blog with a brief introduction of myself with an insight into my personality.
This past Sunday, I remembered what my life was like before Cornell. Being here, studying and thinking about school all the time can makes me feel, in general, like an intelligent person. Now, I didn’t used to be this way; for example, my friends used...
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