ENVR 1301 – Benny, Sanchez

 Activity 2.2 – Cryosphere: Furtwängler Glacier, Tanzania image taken by Stefan Hastenrath 14 August 1973, and published in his book The Glaciers of Equatorial East Africa (1984), Kluwer Academic Publishers (image is a composite of Photo 4.1:17b and 4.1:17c).   image taken 26 July 2002. " Analysis of aerial photographs taken 16 February 2000 indicates that the area decreased by half in 24 years, to 60,000 m 2  (Henry Brecher, pers. comm. and  Thompson et al.  in  Science , 18 October 2002), and then by more than half again to October 2012 (25,000 m 2 ; D. Hardy data). Particularly dramatic changes took place on the Furtwängler in  2003 and 2004 ."                                               Image taken from: https://earth.google.com Problem The Furtwängler Glacier, named after the German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, is l...

 Chapter 1 | Rachel Carson | American Experience | PBS Image of Younger Rachel Carson 1. Point of View "Chapter 1 | Rachel Carson | American Experience | PBS" is a video from the American Experience series on PBS. It focuses on the life and work of Rachel Carson, an American marine biologist, conservationist, and writer. The video likely presents a point of view that highlights Carson's contribution to environmental conservation and her influential book, "Silent Spring," which exposed the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment.  2. Purpose It can be inferred that the purpose or goal of the video is to educate and inform viewers about the life, work, and impact of Rachel Carson. The video likely aims to raise awareness about Carson's contributions to environmental conservation and her role in shaping the modern environmental movement by highlighting the most provocative discovery she made on DDT. The objectives of the video could be: 1. To highlight...

First Blog For ENVR-1301 What I Most Look Forward to in My Environmental Science Class All throughout my junior high, and high school I always took my science classes for granted. after getting a job at becoming a delivery man for a pharmacy I found myself getting bored with music and having a lot of silence time in the car. So I would put on and listen to videos about science, history, religion, culture supernatural, E.T.s, really anything and I found myself being super intrigued over the most basic natural phenomenons that happen here on earth. Basic Science has now became something that I can't stop thinking about and I want to just keep expanding my knowledge in anyway from this class. What I Think This Class Will Be About The name of this course is "environmental science"  if I had give my shortest hypothesis, Id say Its the involvement of studying the natural world, the impact of human activities on ecosystems, and finding sustainable solutions to environmental chal...