Mid-Atlantic states

Marine debris can degrade marine habitats, endanger marine and coastal wildlife and pose threats to human health and safely. Scientists and explorers believe that the best way to accrue the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is to limit or eliminate the use of disposable plastics and increase the use of biodegradable resources in human’s everyday life. Since the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is so far from any country’s coastline, no nation takes the responsibility or provides the funding to clean it up…

Screech! The wheels of the plane finally touched down at Logan airport in Boston after an eight hour flight. After we got off the plane, we still had an hour-and-a-half drive ahead of us. Great. But I knew that it was worth it because we were going to Cape Cod to visit my Grandparents. Cape Cod has beautiful beaches and beautiful weather. The beaches have the silkiest sand, and the bluest skies. Regular visitors and locals refer to Cape Cod as, simply, The Cape. For all of the years…

Jersey is a big environmental problem. According to the New York Times, “At any given time, an estimated 165 million plastic particles are floating...along the Hudson River, south to Sandy Hook Bay, in New Jersey” (Foderaro). This information just states the obvious, that New Jersey waterways are severely infiltrated with plastic. Another problem is that the large pieces of plastic break down into smaller particles, and the microparticles make up 85…

Sea Walnut, Rippenqualle (German) Venus' girdle, warty comb jelly, these are just some of the names for the Comb Jelly. This animal is “any member of a common genus (Mnemiopsis) of gelatinous, planktonic marine invertebrates of the order Lobata (class Tentaculata, phylum Ctenophora).” (""sea Walnut"." Encyclopædia Britannica.) Because of its pronounced abundance in estuaries in the heavily populated parts of the US and its precarious population growth after the 1980s, the Mnemiopsis Leidyi or…

Arthur’s surface winds dropped below gale-form, and the hurricane was designated as an extratropical system as it moved northeastward towards the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. As newly downgraded storm passed outside of the United States, the NHC handed over the storm to the Canadian Hurricane Center. (Brown, Pasch, 2014). The remaining storm intensified as it changed hands. A sting jet formed on the south eastern quadrant of the remaining rotation. (Canadian Hurricane…

about 4.8-12.7 million metric tons of mismanaged plastic waste is thought to have entered the ocean in 2010" (Tibbetts). Not enough people know the amount of plastic that enters the ocean each year and how dangerous it actually is. "In 2012 the United States produced approximately 29 million metric…

Once upon a time there was a large ship and then it disappeared. That ship was in the Bermuda triangle, it’s a large area stretching from Puerto Ricco to an island called Bermuda and then all the way to Miami Florida. In the Bermuda triangle many ships disappear without a trace. Even though there are several theories to prove the disappearances, like methane gas, submerged energy spheres, or a secret government the Bermuda triangle is still a mystery, and a very mysterious mystery at that. The…

The year was 1843, and the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was bustling with excitement. All over the city, people were running errands, setting up shops, and carrying on with their daily lives. For soon, an important boat would enter the harbor,and it would take its passengers on a journey to the Caribbean Islands. I, David Carson, was 38 years old and employed as one of the many carpenters in the city, but I would be among one of these passengers. I was searching for some new environment in…

Water is something we cannot live without. Oceans are large bodies of water. We rely on them for many things. We need to better understand dead zones and their impacts on ecosystems as well as people. Dead zones are expanding, which decreases the water quality and can even be harmful to the economy. Another problem we face with oceanic dead zones is eutrophication. What are dead zones? What is eutrophication? What is their correlation to each other and why are they important? Where…

Flack, Marjorie, and Kurt Wiese. The Story about Ping. New York, NY: [Viking], 1933. Print. Ping was an adventurous duck who lived on a beautiful wise-eyed boat on the Yangtze River. He liked his life on the riverboat just and liked his large family and his kind master. He didn't like to be the last in line to board the boat at night, for that unlucky duck got a loud spank. So what did Ping do when it seemed that he would be the last on line? What else but set out on his own to explore the…