The Emerald Review
The agricultural revolution introduced new ways to support a greater and healthier human population. The revolution also spurred a series of events that led humans to exploit and harm the environment, specifically soil. Soil plays a significant role in the biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur by storing, releasing, and transforming these nutrients […]
When a cow consumes livestock feed or grazes, the microbes in its stomach ferment the food by utilizing carbon and hydrogen, thereby producing enteric methane. Enteric methane is intestinal and predominantly released through eructation (belching), yet a small percentage is also released through flatulence. Gerber et al. state that the emissions from the livestock sector […]
Across the United States, coastal infrastructure poses ecological challenges to many habitat specialists, including the Saltmarsh Sparrow. The Saltmarsh Sparrow is a coastal passerine, or perching bird, that is endemic to the eastern coast of the U.S. These sparrows rely on salt marshes and high marsh ecosystems within wetlands for their breeding and brooding needs. […]
“Remember Only YOU Can Prevent Forest Fires,” is a phrase that most people in the United States recognize. Smokey the Bear, a black bear with a personalized park ranger hat, blue jeans, and a shovel, touted this line time and again. He was introduced in 1944 as an advertising campaign for the United States Forest […]