The issues outlined in this article are specific to the Everglades, but the problems and concerns around aspects of soil subsidence is something impacting soils across the planet.

The article, “Psychological Benefits of Walking through Forest Areas,” published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health in 2018 has found that even a brief walk in natural areas surrounded by trees lowered negative feelings such as “depression-dejection”, “tension-anxiety”, “anger-hostility”, “fatigue”, and “confusion” while increasing “vigor”.

As consumers, we are constantly using and disposing new products and packaging every day. These items and plastics we throw away are referred to as municipal solid waste (MSW) which is put into landfills, recycling centers, composted, or burned for energy recovery.

The major takeaway from Naomi Klein’s latest book, On Fire:  The Burning Case for a Green New Deal is that we must act NOW and at all levels — personal, social, political, economic, international, spiritual — to safeguard, repair, and conserve our natural environment, planet earth, for ourselves, our children and our children’s children on into the future.

Until we all understand that we live under the same roof, we will not be able to join forces to clean our Earth home.

Water is one of the most important resources on Earth that all plants and animals must have to survive. In order to keep a sustainable supply of usable water, we must measure and maintain the water quality of our water sources. To get a measure of the overall water quality of a water system, scientists often examine streams because they are the source of most bodies of water like oceans and lakes.

Article review by James Sanner on “How to Halt Global Warming.”

Frequently, when people think of Fungus they think of mushrooms, skin issues, and mold. Sadly, this instrumental life form does not have the best marketing. As turns out Fungi are essential to the earth’s ecosystem and have been for more than 600 million years (Statmets, 2005).