The Emerald Review
The plant-based milk industry has expanded dramatically in recent years due to increases in the popularity of vegan milk options, which are usually made from plants like almonds, soybeans, and oats. While dairy milk sales are declining at a rate of 3% each year, sales of plant-based milk have grown 6% in just the past […]
In America, it’s impossible to have a conversation about our food and where it comes from without talking about genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Selective breeding–where organisms with desired traits are bred together to amplify those traits–is technically a type of genetic modification, but GMOs usually refer to cases where the desired genes are removed from […]
Whales are very vocal creatures; from singing Humpback Whales to chirping dolphins, cetaceans are in constant, vocal communication with each other and their surroundings. Baleen Whales, like Blue Whales, Humpback Whales, and Fin Whales, tend to use low-frequency sounds to communicate, usually less than 1 kHz. These low-frequency sounds travel great distances underwater without losing […]
Much of the public was appalled to hear that an iceberg approximately the size of Delaware had broken free from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf this July. News outlets hailed this as evidence of humanity’s irreparable impact on the environment—a sudden and apocalyptic warning which some claimed would lead to immediately measurable sea rise. However, […]