Environmental consciousness has grown over the past few decades but Silent Spring is the most significant ripple effect. The environmental icon of the twenty century, Rachel Carson, wrote and published Silent Spring, which was the most influential book to band DDT. The pesticide known as DDT, dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, is great at diminishing harmful insect populations. TheContinue reading “The Book That Helped Impact the Future of the Environment”
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Access To Space Threatened by Space Debris
This past Monday a sleeping crew onboard the International Space Station was woken up and ordered to take shelter in their spacecraft in case the station was hit by passing debris from a Russian anti-satellite missile test. The seven people currently onboard the space station which include cosmonauts from the US, Russia, and Europe wereContinue reading “Access To Space Threatened by Space Debris”