The Emerald Review
Eight people trapped in a man-made terrarium surviving only on what they can produce inside, oxygen depletion, group infighting, a multi-million-dollar experiment gone awry—it sounds like the plot of an 80s science fiction movie. But, the Biosphere 2 experiment was very much real, and its controversies and legacy are still debated today. Conducted between 1991-1994, […]
Recycling has been gaining popularity in the United States during the past few decades, and with it, a conception that it is an easy and elegant solution to the problem of waste generation. However, that is not always the case. Until 2018, China would buy back American recyclables to convert to new materials, but because […]
Off the coasts of Bermuda, the invasive red lionfish poses a threat to an ecosystem that thrives in the warm water of the western Atlantic Ocean. This species was introduced to the wild in the 1980s by the people involved in the aquarium trade. Lionfish can grow up to 8 inches long, and they only […]