Dams

I don’t think that dams should be taken out because of the positive effects that they have. We have always had them. Its not just us humans that use them beavers use them to survive. The dams are beaver’s homes. By getting rid of the dams we’d be destroying all the beaver’s homes.

There something’s that should be improved like a way to get the fish up stream with still having the dams cause right now they have the problem of getting by all the wood and garbage that gets caught in the dams.

There are many pros and cons to the dams. Not always is everything going to work for everyone. We need the dams for the beavers but it would work better without them for the fish.

Without the dams fish would be able to swim up the river without getting blocked off, or stuck. We would have a much larger water flow. There would be much materials and labor needed to go around and remove all the dams. No dams would create a lot more fish and other creatures but it would also be hard to get used to.

Keeping the dams will keep the beavers safe, and none will die from home extinction. If removing a dam the damage would be crazy. The water flow would be so heavy that it would damage and ruin everything around it and in the path that the water would flow.


By: Jasmin Young

Fresh Water

Fresh water is water that is naturally occurring on Earth’s surface. Water is in many different places such as in bogs, ponds, lakes, rivers, streams, and underground in aquifers and underground streams.

Having low concentrations of dissolved salts and other dissolved solids is considered fresh water. Many people think of seawater as fresh water.

Fresh water falls as mist, rain or snow contains materials dissolved from the atmosphere and material from the sea and land over which the rain bearing clouds have traveled.

Freshwater is an important natural resource for survival of ecosystems, they all need it. Chemical contaminations of freshwater can also seriously damage eco-systems. Us humans have a big part in this. Pollution from our activities, such as oil spills, also causes a problem for our fresh water resources. The biggest oil spill was in 1999, by a tank ship in Magdalena, polluting the environment, drinkable water, plants and animals.

Freshwater is a renewable and changeable, but extremely limited natural resource. Freshwater is consumed by us humans and our activies more then its restored by nature. Most freshwater is available in lakes, rivers, dams and underground waters and if lots is used or taken out it can cause serious damage to the environment around it.


By: Jasmin Young

Climate Change

Climate change is a serious issue that something needs to be done about. It is associated with average weather, such as temperature, wind patterns and precipitation. It’s a long-term effect that is going to make a huge change. Climate change is talked about all the time, and the matter is discussed of things that need to be done. We need to take action and do them. Nothings going to get any better just talking about it.

Climate change occurs when the climate of a specific area is altered between two different periods of time. It also happens when something changes the amount of heat energy from the earth's surface, and atmosphere that escapes to space over an extended period of time. Earth’s climate changes naturally.

The public believes the effects of global warming on the climate are not as bad as politicians and scientists claim. Very little of the Earth’s atmosphere has changed over thousands of years. Most people believe everything is going to be alright for the next little while. But after that things are going to change drastically, and fast.






By: Jasmin Young