Enough with the negative! What can YOU do?

Did you know...
....each year about 5 billion tons of CO2 is released into the atmosphere in the United States alone.

For each person in the country that's 20 tons --four elephants--worth of CO2.


Today students watched the video "In Hot Water" which is produced by the New England Aquarium and the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute. This video talks about specific way you can reduce your carbon footprint to save polar bears, coral reefs, marsh lands and more.
Corals have a very narrow temperature range that they can function in, even a change of only one degree can kill the corals. Coral reefs can contain as much biological diversity as the rain forests! The corals above are dead (bleached) because of an increase in water temperature.
The melting of the ice in Arctic areas means that polar bears are no longer able to hunt ring seals as easily as they used to.

In addition to watching the video, students came up with infomercials for products that can help reduce CO2.

Homework: Study for a quiz on ecosystems & climate change on Monday.