Essay Undergraduate 1,867 words

Nuclear Energy: Clean Source or Unsustainable Risk?

Explores both sides of the nuclear energy debate, weighing low emissions and reliability against safety risks, waste disposal, proliferation, and high costs.

Environment

~10 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,058 words

Electric Vehicles vs. ICE Cars: Why EVs Are Superior

Explores why electric vehicles outperform ICE cars in environmental impact, energy efficiency, maintenance costs, and innovation-driven appeal.

Technology

~6 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,416 words

Global Food Market: Benefits, Costs & Sustainability

Explores how a borderless global food market affects what we eat, tracing meals from farm to plate and weighing benefits against environmental costs.

Environment

~8 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,198 words

Fossil Fuels, Air Pollution, and the Case for Clean Energy

Explores how fossil fuel combustion drives air pollution, health risks, and climate change—and why transitioning to solar and wind energy is essential.

Environment

~6 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,132 words

Economic Growth and Biodiversity: A Critical Review

A critical review of The Economist's article on how economic development affects biodiversity, examining its merits, weaknesses, and broader environmental implications.

Environment

~6 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,813 words

Global Water Crisis: Freshwater Shortages and the Future

An analysis of the looming global freshwater crisis, covering groundwater depletion, ocean acidification, climate change, and proposed solutions like iceberg harvesting.

Environment

~10 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,171 words

Anti-Intellectualism as a Social Problem in America

Explores how anti-science and anti-intellectualism undermine democracy, public health, education, and policy in the United States, and what can be done.

Social Issues

~11 min read

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1,353 words

Saul Griffith: inventor and environmental activist

Over the last several years, a host of individuals began to become more concerned about the impact of climate change. In some cases, you would see various people contribute mass amounts of financial resources to addressing the underlying problem.

~7 min read

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1,622 words

Weather systems and the water cycle lesson plan

Grade Level -- Easily adaptable from 3-6 grades, depending on depth, vocabulary, and speed of lesson. Science, part of unit on Earth science and systems.

~9 min read

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1,927 words

Human activity's contribution to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels

CO2: Global Carbon Dioxide Levels Linked to Human Activity (http://zfacts.com/p/194.html): Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere can be linked directly to the release of the gas by human beings since the rise of industrialization (zfacts 2007).

~10 min read

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