U.S Stats!

Hello viewers, I just found out some updated US statistics that I want to share with you. And since I like saving the good for the last, I am going to tell you the bad news first.

The Bad:

-900 Million trees are cut every year to make paper!

-There is enough waste in the US to fill 1,600 New Orleans Super-domes!

-One third of the waste is from packing materials.

The Good:

-Approximately 1,450 aluminium cans are recycled every second! (Can you believe it?)

-A recycled aluminium can takes 80% less energy to make rather than a new can.

-Recycling about 1 ton of cardboard saves over 9 cubic yards of land space.

-Producing recycled paper uses 75% less energy, 70% less air pollution, and 35% less water pollution than making new sheets of paper. And lets not forget the trees we are saving too!

Incredible India!!!

See this picture? This picture was taken in a place in India called Kanyakumari. Kanyakumari is the very most southern tip of India. See how beautiful it is? It is ow plastic-free as plastic bags are banned from stores over there. People have to bring their own bags or the products are wrapped in newspapers or recycled paper bags. Such a small community made this place so clean! More tha half of the items, products, and produces in Kayakumari are organic, so they are very eco-friendly. Here is another thing that is off topic but I really get annoyed by this: People who think India is a bug infested hot wasteland, open your eyes! There is so much more to India than what people tell you or what you read. India is incredible, it's inexplainable! The Taj Mahal, the Red Fort, even a small town like Kanyakumari, are all places you have to see to believe it.

Louisiana Oil Spill

Hello viewers! I was researching on the oil spill on the coast of Louisiana, and I wanted to share some interesting facts I learned. Well, I am sure you know that the oil spill is very life threatening for the marine life. The oil will only float on top of the water, so the carbon dioxide that the fish breathe out is trapped inside the water. Like us, when we lock ourselves in the closet, more carbon dioxide accumulates and we eventually suffocate. The oil spill can harm even us, when the wind blows and the gases mix in our air space. We can get cancer, sick, etc. But on the bright side, a lot of people are trying to clean up the oil spill. They are using hot dog shaped items called Logs, which basically attracts all the oil to itself and it absorbs it. So some of the oil is being trapped in the logs. Here are some images of the oil spill:

All the brown stuff are the chemicals in the oil. Very dangerous!!

Iceland Eruption? Are you serious??

Can anyone here believe that one of the volcanoes on Iceland erupted? I mean.. it's Iceland!! A volcano erupted April 11th 2010. The ash cloud blocked off major air spaces for a lot of countries, causing complete sorrow and depression for a lot of people, sorry people.. I feel your pain..

But the good news is that the ash cloud seems to be clearing. Huge airports like Heathrow in England are finally starting to open up. I am not so sure about the ash cloud, so I will post some more information later. Adiós for now!

The Game Called Forest Depletion...

Hello again viewers, I just wanted to point out something I found out during school. It's pretty bad, but humans have needs... Tropical Rainforests. Humans use these forests the most. They are found in places near the equator, in the temperate zone. You might ask: "Why do humans cut down tropical rainforests? Well, it's because of many reasons. These reasons include: Lumber, Hard Wood, Medicinal Herbs, etc. The Hard Wood is called so because of it's quality. Huge markets like Ikea use only this wood, that's why they are slightly more expensive than other stores. The quality of wood is much better than others. Fact: Did you know that North America has lost 25% of it's total forests?

Solar Eclipse Phenomenon!

December 26th, 2004. A huge tsunami struck South-west Asia. It was a huge tsunami, one of the biggest ones known to mankind. The reason I am talking about tsunami's is because of something I have been researching on. Does anyone who is reading this know what a Solar Eclipse is? A solar eclipse is when the moon blocks the sun's rays on the earth. So for a limited time, one side of the earth will be covered with darkness. So during that time, the moon is much closer to the Earth than it usually is. The moon, because it's so close, will radiate a gravitational pull towards the Earth. When that happens, the plate tectonics will be most vulnerable, because the extra gravity pulling on it. Then, if an Earthquake chooses to strike at that moment, the tsunami will be roughly 6 times stronger than it would have been if the solar eclipse hadn't occurred.It would be like a tidal wave and a tsunami combined. A Tidal Wave's power is based only on the moon's gravity. So when the moon is extremely close, the tidal wave would be much more powerful. I just wanted to share that with you. I know it wasn't related to the topic much, but it seems pretty interesting, don;t you think? :)