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Recently in India, Diwali has been going on. Diwali is the festival of lights in India which celebrates Ram and Sita defeating the reason Ravana. People usually celebrate with fireworks and lighting a "candle." These celebrations have taken a toll on India's air quality. Before Diwali, the air pollution was bad: But after, was a whole other story: These celebrations for Diwali put pollution levels 42 times above recommended pollution rates. And with now wind to blow the pollution away in the next months, it is only supposed to get worse. You see, India has two primary seasons, a season of drought, and a season on monsoons. In the dry season, there is little wind. It occurs at this time of year until the spring.  It is not like I am against these celebrations, I just wish to seek an alternative. Maybe environmental friendly fireworks display all over, instead of having one major one which everyone goes to. Good luck India! Hard time of cancer are ahead for the ne...

                        ExxonMobil's scandals You might know ExxonMobil as one of the world's largest oil and gas companies, but did you know they knew their products were harmful to people, and they tried to hide it. When journalists found that out, they reported it to the media. ExxonMobil's cover-up was, "media and  environmental activists’ allegations about the company’s climate research are inaccurate and deliberately misleading." Although, I think that's wrong. In fact, ExxonMobil even knows its company is melting polar ice caps and endangering animals.  I used a segment from NPR

In December, 195 countries met in Paris to discuss climate reform. At the end of the 14 day period of talks, people agreed on an emissions target. The target The earth has warmed 1 degree Celsius (about 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since the industrial revolution started in 1750. The countries met and decided to try to keep it below 2 degrees Celsius.  A chart of the worlds warming in Celsius since 1880 http://400.350.org/ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/page2.php

The earth is warming, That is why we made this blog. It IS time to change! 20% of our world's population uses 80% of the world's resources. Oil prices are really low, $37 per barrel. People are using this money to get new cars. My family bought a new car, but I have mixed feeling about this. I know that it took a lot of oil to make the new car, and the old one will eventually end up in a landfill. However, since the car is larger I can carpool with my friends. According to the EPA, the average gas mileage of cars on the road is 24.1 MPG. This figure is one year old. This figure will probably decrease. This is because fewer mileage cars are "less" money than they used to be because gas prices are lower. That hurts the electric car market . It is less cost effective now because fuel for your Gasoline SUV is more cots effective than it used to be. Anyway... You can view the video  here Please note... I don't know this person By Samuel On behalf of ...

A study by Yale University had determined that there are 3 trillion trees on this earth For every 5B trees planted each year 15B are cut down This makes a 10B net tree loss  each year I found an animated map by business insider This is where I found this animated map on climate change CHECK OUT THIS NEW ANIMATED MAP

Light pollution video Light pollution is becoming an issue. We spend 110 billion dollars each year on wasted light. Enough to power 8 million homes.This is 50 million tons and growing by 3-5% annually. We  could reverse this trend in a decade if we get it right.  Many study's have shown that this bright light affects animals and humans. Millions of birds die each year, by flying into buildings. Newly hatched sea turtles crawl toward electric lights along the beach because the think the shimmer of the lights are the ocean. Finally, many have not seen the milky way galaxy, in the picture below. The milky way