Science Forward

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/world/africa/an-ebola-orphans-plea-in-africa-do-you-want-me.html?ref=science Ebola frightened the world for about a week, and then disappeared from most people’s news feeds as its impact in the West was minimal. From a strictly scientific standpoint, we can be relieved to know that its threat to our society is nearly nonexistent and our healthcare infrastructure is quite sufficient to deal with […]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/science/a-price-tag-on-carbon-as-a-climate-rescue-plan.html?_r=1   I read this article out of curiosity about what the current political administrations approach to carbon emissions is specifically. It gave an interesting case study of a dairy farm that has reduced its carbon monoxide emissions along with a big picture depiction of carbon markets on national levels. I got excited when I […]

  I was walking in the Union Square train station, when I came across a whole line of these ads. Poland Springs is actually celebrating their supremacy as the number one beverage…in a city with some of the best tap water in the country. Come one New Yorkers, get those reusable water bottles and stop […]

Two things stood out to me when we visited Plumb Beach on Halloween. The first was the unusual shape of the beach, the second, the types of garbage we found there. As Professor Branco had previously mentioned, the beach sand had been distributed unevenly due to the way the water moves sand, but additionally, erosion […]

Plastic is a wicked problem, without a doubt. Stories of seals choking on the plastic loops used to hold soda cans together, or of birds dying when they ingest too many plastic fragments should be a call to action, regardless of our plastic addiction. But when we focus on marine plastic’s direct impact on human […]