For more than a week now, our TVs have been painted with the apocalyptic scenes of unfettered destruction in Ukraine where Russia has bombarded cities in their sickening invasion of the country. The sources of this unprecedented aggression include their Cold War ties in the Soviet Union, Ukraine’s desire to…

With only a few years left to reach the 2030 goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions in half, we still haven’t made the progress that’s required to reach it. The United States instead remains embattled across party lines at every turn, including the pandemic, the economy, voting rights, federal…

“The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man’s litter has more permanence.” — John Steinbeck We’ve all seen it when we pass through in our cars or when walking through the woods for some much needed repose. It makes us…

If there’s anything that the Coronavirus pandemic has taught people, everyone could agree how it has helped us cherish the precious time we have on Earth and just simply being alive. For others, this goes further by instilling in them a greater appreciation for the natural world. …

As the world fights Coronavirus, it feels as if climate change is being completely forgotten. This was supposed to be a year of action to accompany one prodigious decade, but plans have changed…again. Here we are, more than six months into 2020, still grappling with Coronavirus (of course, countries like…

With over 120,000 Americans dead, almost 2,500,000 confirmed cases, unemployment resembling the likes of the Great Depression, and common sense being thrown out the window, how much more can we take? When I first learned about the newly emerged sars-cov-2 from Wuhan late last year, scrolling through my news feed…

When I first arrived in college after four rigorous and very brutal years of high school, I thought that I was prepared for any challenge that came my way. Having graduated with a 4.85 GPA and being looked at by over 300 different schools throughout the nation, everything seemed to…

For many decades, the delicate topic of climate change was often shoved to the side and placed on the back burner, mostly forgotten about and not granted the importance it deserved. It was one of those issues that could always wait, one that never would require urgency to solve since…

Although climate change is severely affecting our planet in a multitude of ways, including the harm that it inflicts upon biodiversity, the effects of it affect endemic species more significantly than those that are not. Endemic species are only found in a certain part of the world and nowhere else…