The global Climate Strike Week, September 20th to September 27th, concludes today as many stand out calling attention to our worldwide epidemic. This climate strike was by far one of the most united efforts ever mobilized among green activists. With an estimated 150 countries around the world joining in a reported 4638 events, the global climate strike amassed over four million participating advocates. In the largest climate strike to date, the people raised concerns for government neglect to pollution, businesses operating at the expense of our ecosystems, and individuals needing to ree ..read more

Farming has been a vital aspect of life since the dawn of mankind. Today over 11% of the world’s land is used for growing crops and with the human population pushing to 10 billion by approximately 2055, the need for more farm land continues to grow. While designating more land and resources into growing crops sounds like a simple solution, there exists a limiting factor that few people realize we are quickly depleting: topsoil. As suggested in the name, topsoil consists of the top 13 to 25 cm of soil around the earth that contains the highest concentration of nutrients and microorganisms. S ..read more

Kicking off Shark Week we are looking into The truth behind the King of the Sea. Often depicted as ferocious, threatening, and dangerous creatures, shark attacks are actually so rare that only a measly 70 to 100 attacks are recorded each year worldwide. Despite the frequency of shark attacks in movies and shows the chances of you winning the lotto jackpot are 16x higher than your chances of being attacked by a shark. Alternatively, around 100 million sharks are killed by humans annually. These sharks are hunted primarily for their dorsal fin which gains value from its use in cultural di ..read more

One month ago off the coast of Deerfield Beach, Florida a group of 633 volunteers gathered to create the largest underwater cleanup to date. Each equipped with SCUBA gear and a hope for a cleaner ocean, the volunteers hunted the ocean along the coast for trash, plastics, and lost fishing supplies. The event held by Dixie Divers dive shop and the Deerfield Beach Women’s Club on June 15th was a complete success and removed an estimated 3,000 pounds of pollution from the ocean in addition to setting the world record for the largest event of its kind, a goal they have been reaching for annually ..read more

Discussions involving the current climate and the human impact on it continue to gain momentum in today’s conversations. More research articles are emerging analyzing how and in what ways the changing climate effects organisms of different biomes. Despite the uptick of interest in this area of study, changes are still occurring unnoticed right at our doorstep inside the world of microorganisms. Understandably, researching diverse microorganisms which are invisible to the human eye can pose some challenges and be overlooked in a area where other large organisms are readily accessible to be ..read more

While the growing epidemic of plastics in our ocean may be old news to most who are updated with current events involving the world’s health, scientists are continuing to discover even more unfortunate ways in which humans may be damaging marine ecosystems. Two hundred meters below the surface of the ocean off the coast of Monterey Bay, California, scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute are collecting water samples for data in one of their latest research endeavors. At this level the water is full of microorganisms, detritus, and apparently, micro-plastics. In their sa ..read more