Silicon dioxide

Biodiversity In The Amazon Rainforest Just think, you are a little bacteria in the huge Rainforest, waiting to be found. But all the sudden your home gets destroyed and burned to make roads and factories. For what? Just to pollute the environment and especially the air. People think animals and bacteria don’t have feelings and that they wouldn’t be mortified and confused that their land and home have been cut and burned down. That is why it is very important to save the Rainforest.…

As the days get warmer and longer, the back yard once again becomes a place of enjoyment for both kids and adults. However, before the recreation and social get-togethers begin, make sure that your backyard is safe. Here are four common back yard hazards to look for and fix: Propane Grilling Dangers A propane grill has a tank containing a compressed flammable gas used to fuel a burner. Such a device should be safe unless the tank is damaged or is improperly used. Inspect the tank and its…

Allergy sufferers take note; there is a new Nasal Allergy Spray in town called ClariSpray Nasal Allergy Spray from the makers of Claritin. First, I must share that I received this full size bottle to sample via Bzz Agent. ClariSpray Allergy Spray primary purpose is to relive that nasal congestion that is due to allergens in the air like pollen, mold, dust, or pet dander. Fall is the season that allergies really start to surface. This year, it seems unusually more stressing. This is due to the…

Lake Erie needs our help desperately! The danger is that Erie is so polluted with raw sewage and poisonous chemicals, blue and green algae is a huge problem right now, because of the heat, it keeps on reproducing this fatal mush. 1960 was the most polluted it's ever been, so much pollution they protested to make the lake better. The lake was full of Nitrogen and Phosphate. Dead fish littered the shoreline, the lake was remembered as “dead lake’’. The United States signed a treaty with Canada…

Problems of fracking the Gas Introduction Fracking is needed for one of our most profitable resources which is gas. Gas helps us as people travel by putting gas in our car, eat by uses gas stoves, stay warm by uses gas heaters, and so on. Although fracking is benefiting us, there are claims that it is also harming us. The claim is that fracking put contaminants like methane in our water. According to Wikipedia, Methane is the simplest alkane, and is the main component of natural gas. “Methane…

The Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing Petros Tedla Fracking, short for Hydraulic Fracturing is a process that uses water and other fluids from underground by cracking the shell and collecting the gas that escapes. Wasting the water is not the only problem during Fracking as the water that was used in the Fracking process is now contaminated and the only way to dispose of it is to store It in lagoons that eventually pollute rivers and the water supply. There have been several incidents…

Standing on the side of the streets in New York, the air full of the smells of industrialization and the sweat of animals. The days pass, the nights get shorter and the days longer, then as the nights begin to grow once more, the smells of the the bustling city change. What was once the perspiration of horses hard at work, has been replaced with burning of gasoline. On October 1, 1908, Henry Ford revolutionized the production of combustion vehicles; cars were made available to the middle class…

Erika Anderson once said “Doing the right thing doesn’t automatically bring success, but compromising almost always leads to failure.”. During the 1980’s to the 2000’s many citizens of the United States were faced with an ethical issue, this issue caused many of them to compromise what was wrong and what was right. Around the 1980’s the U.S was having trouble producing its own oil and wanted to drill for oil near an Alaskan wildlife refuge known as Arctic National Wildlife Refuge(ANWR). Although…

The environment In latin America needs to be our number one priority because illegal and some legal jobs are destroying the ecosystem and causing animals to go extinct. People are desperate for money and jobs but that is not a reason to destroy all of their natural resources. They are using natural resources at a rate higher than ever before. Ecosystems in Latin america are dying off because the things that they need to survive are being sold as profit or there homes are being turned into crop…

The Great Fire of Chicago Have you ever thought about how terrifying that nice, warm fire, in your house could actually be? The Chicago Fire was a very tragic event that happened in October of 1871. The Chicago Fire killed up to 300 people and also left around 100,000 people homeless. The fire had took down everything engulfing anything that it had touched. Every Single house, all the streets, and the sidewalks were all made up of wood and the fact that Chicago was super dry did not help at all.…