All posts tagged "climate change"
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Midwesterners need to prepare as climate changes increase power of weather disasters
In recent years extreme North American weather events have been all over the headlines. As our planet earth goes through human induced climate change, weather...
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Environmental science teacher addressing climate change challenges ahead
Though climate change is having a greater and greater impact with each day, AP Environmental science teacher Jason Lang is ready to face the challenge...
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How to be more eco-friendly
First up, transportation. Try carpooling. Use a rideshare app like Uber or carpool with friends/coworkers to get to work. You can also ride your bike...
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Bamboo toothbrushes offer eco-friendly alternative
Switching to Bamboo toothbrushes is better for our environment and will help stop mass pollution. Plastic toothbrushes pollute oceans and beaches, harming marine life and...
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Our View | Withdrawl from Paris Treaty destroys U.S. climate credibility
On June 1, 2017, President Donald Trump said something that rocked the environmentalists to their core. As of today, the United States will cease all...
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Writer/activist longs for environmental change
“And that moment changed me at the Gulf Coast, University of Florida. It was hard, and I think in that moment I stopped using the...
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Our View | Action needs to start now to save our planet
Every year on April 22, people around the world host different events to remember the Earth. But one must keep in mind that Earth Day...
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Climate crisis needs action
“Why should we go to school if you won’t listen to the educated?” chants angry youth, asking for political leaders to take action for climate...
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Real Deal – Wacky winter proves need to address climate change
In January, Iowa was one of the many states that faced bitterly cold temperatures as a result of the polar vortex. Wind chills dropped below...
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30 students square off in Holmes chess tournament
Thirty Holmes Junior High students recently squared off in a chess tournament in ninth-grade science teacher Maria Hoekstra’s classroom during Tiger Time. The winner was seventh-grader Alexander Fuchtman who...
