The Emerald Review
On any given cold night in March, dozens of students take walks on Bay State Road. Looking up to the sky, they may see the windows of Myles Standish Hall, a residence at Boston University whose brightly lit rooms create the image of a checkerboard in the dark. Each day, warm bulbs illuminate pages of […]
At the UN Biodiversity Conference in October 2021, President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, announced the formal establishment of a network of five national parks, covering a total of 230,000 square kilometers and containing nearly 30% of the country’s key terrestrial wildlife species. One of these parks is called the Giant Panda […]
Even in Sub-Saharan Africa, a region largely overlooked by global climate change research, a decades-long grassroots movement continues to advance in its reforestation efforts across the continent. The Green Belt Movement is a community-based nonprofit organization that promotes environmental conservation, gender empowerment, and improving livelihoods through the planting of trees. Founded in 1977 by Wangari […]
National parks are public land protected by the United States government which has been tasked with wildlife conservation for generations. They exist throughout the nation and remain some of the most spectacular tourist sights. However, national parks have been struggling to afford the overwhelming cost of maintenance and convenience required to keep the lands running. […]
Out of the 17.6 billion pounds of plastic dumped into the oceans every year, two thirds of that ends up in the Northern Pacific Ocean. As the world’s largest ocean, the Pacific reaches the western coasts of North America and South America, and the eastern coasts of Asia and Oceania. This 161.76 million square kilometer […]
The term “anthropocene” describes the current geological era in which human activity is the dominant influence on the natural world. The term is a derivation of the Greek words anthropos, meaning “human,” and cene, meaning “new” and was coined in the early 2000s by biologist Eugene Stormer and chemist Paul Crutzen. Anthropologists argue over various […]
After being postponed three times, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Fifteenth meeting, known as COP15, was held between October 11 and 15 in Kunming, China. The convention behind the meeting, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), was initially opened for signature at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro […]
In recent years, freelance developers and global corporations alike have begun to question and understand their role in environmental issues. The term “green software” has been circling the software industry, which relates to software design, development, and use with the intent to keep carbon emissions as low as possible. Software does not consume resources or […]
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. […]
When the idea to preserve a natural area in Eastern California was first introduced in the summer of 1864, it resulted in just under sixty square miles of land entrusted to the state government, little of which received many visitors. Following its declaration as a national park in 1890, Yosemite’s popularity grew, and it is […]