According to the University of Delaware, the Chesapeake Bay is becoming acidic as it has gone to 7.4 pH from an average of 8.2. The oxidation of ammonia and hydrogen sulfide may be the factor that is leading to the higher acidity levels in coastal oceans, but it can eventually lead to more of open oceans. Naturally the waters of the Chesapeake Bay have a regulatory system that holds back the increase of acidity levels in the area, and this works as the dissolving of living shells, non-living aragonite, and calcite minerals. Though nature has a path to keep the waters in the Chesapeake Bay, humans should take more care of our Earth as we have a role in polluting the water and rising the acidity levels in coastal oceans. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170828093737.htm
There was a fire that started in Paradise California called the Campfire that started just 8 hours before the Woolsey Fire in California, completely eliminated the Paradise city, it doesn't exist anymore. All everyone was posting about was the Woolsey Fire even though "The Camp Fire was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. It is also the deadliest wildfire in the United States since the Cloquet fire in 1918 and is high on the list of the world's deadliest wildfires; it is the sixth-deadliest U.S. wildfire overall.", burned down 18, 804 buildings and 1/8 people got evacuation warnings. Whereas the Woolsey fire destroyed only 1,643 buildings and every cellphone, television, etc, had evacuation warnings on the screen.
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ReplyDeleteI did not even know about the fires going on in California until people started talking about it. It is hard to believe that so many things can be destroyed in such a short amount of time, and it is amazing that they have not come up with an effective way to completely prevent forest fires.
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