Environmental Science

Completely avoiding Nestlé in the US is a pretty difficult thing to do in the US because the company owns over 2,000 brands across coffee, pet care, bottled water, frozen meals, and chocolate. For reference, there are many reasons why I believe you should avoid Nestle as a company overall. However, explaining all my grievances would take too long. A quick list from Wikipedia reads: forced labour modern slavery child labour incidents of contaminated and infested food products

The title of the artwork is Under the Underground, a 2026 creation of Nancy Blum, part of the MTA Arts and Design initiative. The image depicts trees, yet the focus of this work is on what lies below. Underneath, roots shoot outwards in tangled lines that are identified by their specific colors: blue, green, yellow, red, orange. They are clearly subway lines, even if they may be interpreted as a root system of a tree, depending on how one chooses to look at it. I think that'

The Green and Resilient Zimbabwe Initiative is a proposed nonprofit for Buhera District, a rural area in Zimbabwe's Manicaland Province with around 245,000 residents. Most of them are subsistence farmers who grow maize and millet on communal land managed by local chiefs. When it rains, they eat. When it doesn’t, they go hungry. Buhera doesn’t have a water issue in the way I first thought. There is water underground, stored in aquifers beneath fields that are parched from the

Dr. Reinmann is an ecologist and biogeochemist who focuses on plant ecophysiology and the terrestrial carbon cycle. He is particularly interested in understanding the effects of environmental change (e.g., climate change, urbanization, and land cover change) on the drivers of plant-mediated controls of terrestrial carbon cycling, and nitrogen dynamics as a limiting nutrient, across a continuum of human-disturbed ecosystems. His research draws from multiple disciplines and com

I think when people talk about climate change, they usually picture melting glaciers or wildfires somewhere distant, but some of its most serious effects show up in ordinary places, like the produce aisle of a grocery store that no longer exists on Chicago's South Side. My civics project asked how climate change worsens food inaccessibility that urban minorities were already facing, and the answer turned out to have as much to do with American history as with the weather. The

I just finished Unit 3 of AP Environmental Science on my own, working through a textbook and taking notes. Unit 3 is about populations: how they grow, what limits them, and what happens when a species runs low on room or food. What stuck with me is how much of the unit ends up being about food, even when it doesn't say so directly. Carrying capacity is the core idea. It's the largest population an environment can support with the resources it has. Populations tend to grow fas