EVOLUTIONS Environmental Leaders 2018

Over the past few years mostly all loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings have been female. Which can pose an issue for the growth and reproduction of loggerhead sea turtles, since the number of male sea turtles are diminishing. This issue can be directly linked to the Earth's rising temperatures.What determines the sex of a sea turtle is the condition or temperature of their nest. If the sand is hotter then the sex of the baby will most likely be female. Since, the Earth's global temperature has been rising over the years caused by greenhouse gases and other sources of air pollution, the sand has been getting hotter as a result. Even though there has been a majority of female baby sea turtles being born there is still enough adult loggerhead's out there to reproduce and keep the population sustained .Although, if this continues to happen they can struggle to grow their population in the future. It's very important to help so they won't be put in danger of dying out. N

Cannabis is often grown indoors so it's production can be controlled. The article I read is about how the one cannabis grower helps cut the carbon emissions. Carbon is harmful to us because it increases the greenhouse effect. This means that it traps the heat in our atmosphere. So, things that live in cold climates find it hard to survive because of the Earth's warming. This cannabis grower is using different lighting to help cut the carbon emissions that is usually produced by the other type of lightings that they use. By every cannabis grower switching to the different type of lighting, this will significantly cut the carbon that is produced by cannabis. By doing this, they also have to change the nutrients and the amount of water that they need to use in order for the plants to prosper. Do you think cannabis users should switch to this different type of lighting even with the other changes that they have to do in order to make their plant grow?

One would assume that a company that relies on gasoline and thus carbon emissions for it's income would not be the most concerned for our planet and where it gets it's building power. However, the Pitt Ohio trucking facility in in Pennsylvania has a depot that is powered completely off it's own power grid. From solar panels to electric forklifts this depot is fully powered off clean energy. Is it odd for a trucking company to invest in clean energy? Or is it more important since it is a large contributor to carbon emissions? Source: https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/05/why-a-trucking-company-built-its-own-grid/

Who would've known that this super duper futuristic looking car would actually be the future of decreasing carbon emissions. This car is the Uniti One. It has many technology advancements such as co-pilot capabilities and self-parking capabilities. This car has a sleek and very small look, which actually helps with the carbon footprint decrease. Because of the golf cart sized build and the plastic material, there would be a much smaller carbon emission output, compared to traditional automobiles and electric cars. It is just a matter of how well this car sells, if it is more accessible, and how well it performs to determine if this is the future of electric cars. **PODCAST LINK SOURCE** :https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/05/new-electric-car-has-tiny-carbon-footprint/

With climate change still on the rise, the Arctic permafrost continues to thaw. And as the permafrost thaws, they release their carbon reserves which then contributes back to climate change, creating a vicious cycle that worsens with every repeat of the cycle. What a study published in Geophysical Research Letters found was that alongside the carbon the thawing of the permafrost releases, mercury is being released as well. According to Paul Schuster, a research geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey and one of the study authors, “[The] Arctic permafrost holds about 793 gigagrams of mercury—more than 15 million gallons, or the equivalent of about 23 Olympic swimming pools.” He then goes on to say that combined with the layer of soil above it, “[they] together contain nearly twice as much [mercury] as all the other soils, the ocean and the atmosphere combined.” The study predicts that by the year 2100, between 30 and 99 percent of the Arctic's permafrost will have thawed,