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What a Lake's Color can tell you about its condition Scientists have discovered that the warmer a lake gets, the more pigmented their color gets. Lakes with high levels of phytoplankton become greener in warmer temperatures because it increases. Lakes with a blue color become even bluer in warmer temperature because its levels of phytoplankton decrease. The warming temperatures either increases the phytoplankton or decreases the amount of animals that would eat it.  The blue lakes trap the nutrients needed for the phytoplankton at the bottom of the lake due to the heat that the lake only gets bluer as the temperatures get warmer.  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170921095024.htm

To read about how scientists are predicting that a mass extinction could occur at some point because of our release of carbon dioxide is quite scary. Even though if it could be a trigger, but wouldn't occur until about 10,000 years afterward. Still, creates something to think about in the daily life and if we can change something to slow down this process. Click  Here

https://www.livescience.com/60580-japan-tsunami-brought-300-species-across-ocean.html A Tsunami in 2011, in Japan caused tons of debris to be washed up on United States shores. Scientists says that they counted nearly 300 species from Japan washed up on the shore lines from Hawaii to Alaska. This is the first time in history that coastal species have came up along the US shores. Hurricanes and Typhoons can bring loads of debris with them into the ocean, causing marine debris to keep coming up throughout the years. Researchers are worried that marine debris could result in invasive species cause disrupt in local ecosystems. I think that if invasive species were going to be a problem in ecosystems then scientists would have realized it by now during the past 6 years that have past, and I am sure that the scientists can capture all of the species in the ocean so how are they supposed to know or see if an ecosystem is getting invaded. Scientists should look more into the species being wa...

On the island of Indonesia thousands of people have evacuated and taken over due to two volcanoes rumbling on the islands of Bali and Ambae. It is said that both volcanoes are showing signs of erupting in pure coincidence. I agree that it is a coincidence that they are both rumbling at the same time because they both sit on the Pacific Ring of Fire and since they are two somewhat close volcanoes many reactions could be happening under the ground causing not just one but both volcanoes to erupt at any time. I think that even though it has been years since the volcanoes have erupted I think that over those year build up of rocks and chemical reactions have occurred and now it is all ready to erupt and start over again somewhat like a cycle. http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/28/asia/volcano-evacuations-bali-vanuatu/index.html

Mexico Earthquakes The article I read had to do with all the earthquakes hitting Mexico and if they're related. While some believe that all the recent natural disasters could be connected, geophysicists say otherwise. What most people don't understand is underneath Mexico are tectonic plate lines. When the plates move they rub against each other creating the earthquakes. From time to time the plates move more than other times, this is one of them. Because Mexico has three plates under it, when one moves multiple earthquakes will follow since all move. So in conclusion the earthquakes striking Mexico are not connected, but rather would have happened eventually.

I thought this article was perfect for this month because we just did our soil lab. This article talks about a local farmer who is doing everything in his power to protect the environment. Everything from, the soil, to the water in the Chesapeake Bay, to the deer in our back yards. He has planted many trees along side of streams to provide homes for deer all over the county. I think more farmers should be environmentally aware and try this farmers technique to better the environment. http://lancasteronline.com/features/farmers-efforts-to-help-environment-benefit-their-lancaster-county-farms/article_85a5508a-9ee0-11e7-ab49-0f354d311134.html

We use olive oil for cooking many dishes but never would we suspect that mixing olive oil and OMW-sawdust could possibly create fertilizer and fuel which is safe for the environment. I feel that if scientists could possibly secure this idea that the use of dangerous and pollutant fertilizers and fuel could end for Mediterranean countries, by combining OMW-sawdust and olive oil you could create eco-friendly fertilizer and fuel which would greatly improve the pollution in those areas. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170927123602.htm