Science Forward

Last Sunday, some of my fellow classmates and I went on the scheduled plastic survey and cleanup trip to Plumb Beach. When I arrived, I expected to see massive piles of trash, plastic bottles and food wrappers everywhere. However, at first glance, it seemed as though the beach was clean of all debris, plastic and […]

As we all know by know, plastics have taken over our society and we as people choked our environment with all this plastic debris at land and at sea. However, what we don’t know (us in class and the rest of the world) are the true effects of BPA, or Bisphenol- A. Bisphenol- A is […]

For today’s BioBlitz, I was assigned to survey the plants in the New York Botanical Garden. The process of surveying which type of plant species we were looking at is by pointing out the details of the branch or leaves of the plant and then checking a guidebook to find out which species was similar […]