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NJIT Greens Waste Audit Results: A Step in the Right Direction

NJIT Green’s Waste Audit Results: A Step in the Right Direction

Christian Kielbowicz, skielbowicz, and divanov November 10, 2019

[ngg src="galleries" ids="74" display="basic_thumbnail" thumbnail_crop="0"] The world has been swept up in the storm of a green revolution in response to the environmental crisis, and NJIT has been...

How to Implement a Circular Food Cycle

How to Implement a Circular Food Cycle

Christian Kielbowicz and skielbowicz October 24, 2019

The way that food is currently being produced and disposed of is not sustainable. Currently, over one-third of the planet’s land area is dedicated to agriculture, with farming accounting for over 70%...

Arctic Spring Has Come...Early

Arctic Spring Has Come…Early

Siri Uppuluri and suppuluri May 9, 2019

Spring has sprung in the Arctic this year and this change in seasons is coming nearly 20 days earlier than it did two decades ago, according to observations from a recent study published in the scientific...

New Jerseys Pollution Unbearable for Asthmatics

New Jersey’s Pollution Unbearable for Asthmatics

Isaac Scafe and iscafe May 6, 2019

 It is a scientifically proven fact that the Earth is growing warmer as the world continues to become more polluted. Greenhouse gases continue to be released into the atmosphere while the amount...

New York Passes Congestion Tax

New York Passes Congestion Tax

Isaac Scafe and iscafe April 24, 2019

New York City is one of the most desirable cities in which to work and reside. However, according to a Kiplinger survey, the cost of living in Manhattan was 138.6% higher than the national average...

Record Number of Dolphins Wash up on French Beaches

Record Number of Dolphins Wash up on French Beaches

Isaac Scafe and iscafe April 12, 2019

Increased global seafood demand to blame Studies have shown that dolphin and human brains are very similar, even though they are not the same size.  Dolphins are one of the most intelligent...

Plastic-eating Bacteria Discovered in Philippines

Plastic-eating Bacteria Discovered in Philippines

John Hawks and jhawks April 12, 2019

One of the Pacific’s largest polluters may have found a solution to the problem of plastic waste in the ocean.  On April 14, 2018, a team of researchers from the University of the Philippines-Baguio...

Microplastics: A Not-So-Micro Problem

Microplastics: A Not-So-Micro Problem

Sandra Raju, sraju, and kji February 21, 2019

Plastics: they are in everything we use. They make our lives easier and are highly cost-effective but remain for hundreds of years and—if not properly disposed of or recycled—can degrade into microplastics.  With...

Capturing Carbon

Capturing Carbon

Isaac Scafe and iscafe February 21, 2019

Researchers have been searching for a new method to combat global warming. Since a primary cause of rising temperatures is the increase in CO2emissions—which creates an increased greenhouse effect—a...

The Lone Star States Energy Independence

The Lone Star State’s Energy Independence

Siri Uppuluri February 7, 2019

A brown lump of lignite coal is dug up from an exposed open pit, placed on a conveyor belt in a power plant, and sent to contribute toward the generation of electricity for households across the state....

Fast Fashion

Fast Fashion

Shanee Halevi January 31, 2019

Fashion has arguably taken the same downturn as the fast food industry; cheap, low quality clothes are found in abundance, taking a toll on the environment and low wage workers. This shift in shopping...

Amazon Gets Heatstroke

Amazon Gets Heatstroke

Isaac Scafe November 29, 2018

The Amazon forests cannot keep up with climate change. A team led by the University of Leeds and 30 other institutions assessed the impact global warming has had on the area and its species. Their research...

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