Warming Ocean Currents Affect Weather and Environment
Co-Written by Meena Miriam Yust & Arshad M. Khan If one can imagine looking at our globe from the South Pole end, one can observe the ocean currents circulating water…
Meena Miriam Yust
Dying Wildlife on a Warming Planet
Co-Written by Meena Miriam Yust and Arshad M. Khan The emaciated polar bear, a sorry remnant of magnificence, raiding garbage cans in an iconic, even infamous photo, is one consequence…
The Threat To Life From Ocean Microplastics
Co-Written by Meena Miriam Yust and Arshad Khan When Chelsea Rochman at the University of Toronto and colleagues began their study on medakas (small Japanese rice paddy fish), they did not expect…
Can Recycling Really Solve The Plastic Problem?
Co-Written by Meena Miriam Yust and Arshad M. Khan The practice of recycling has everything to commend it: On a finite planet, it conserves resources; it is meretricious allowing us,…
The Perilous Migration of Birds through Cities
How many birds flying into buildings die, Thinking the glass reflection is the sky. — with a nod to Kansas poet Madeleine Aaron Bird migration is a wondrous and…
Dangerous Plastics Are a Threat to Us and Future Generations: Why a Legally Binding Treaty Cannot Be Postponed
Every day people make decisions about what to eat, sometimes opting for colorful fruits and veggies, sometimes finding the smell of bacon irresistible. At the end of the day people…
Who is Safe from Amazon? Worldwide Store Closings
Amazon has reached the far corners of the earth… and the highest elevations. Delivery men venture 11,562 feet up in the Himalayas to leave a package. While the company may serve a…
How Genetics and Pollution Are Threatening Wild Dolphins
Dolphins are beautiful, highly intelligent and uncannily human in their interactions. Yet, they also have a language we humans cannot fully hear, and a culture that is in some…
The Perils of Plastic Pollution
Plastics are found in the products we use every day: the toys we give our children, the clothing we wear, the disposable cups we drink from, the automobiles we make,…
Why Treaty Protection is Needed for Migratory Pollinators
Imagine a state of laws where murder is illegal if the victim is clad in a blue shirt, but legal if the victim is not wearing blue. A system where robbery…
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