In the past years there has been 5 massive oil spills in Alberta. They were in Little Buffalo, Red Earth Creek, Slave lake, Elk Point and Red Deer River. These oil spills were really major and if you click on the icons you can see a brief description of what happened. The biggest oil spill that happened was in Little Buffalo. This was the largest spill in the province in 35 years. The smallest major oil spill that happened was in Red Earth Creek. Hydrogen sulfide was found in some of the oil spills. This could cause a major threat to water systems and humans. This gas can cause respiratory issues and vision problems. If the oil leaked into major body's of water many people could of got illnesses related to hydrogen sulfide. oil doesn't dissolve in water which could be harmful for animals if they get stuck in it.
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Sweden has many Christmas traditions that they like to celebrate. I will be listing a few of the traditions Sweden part takes in. For example on Christmas eve the people from Swedish go to church and light candles. Another tradition they have on Christmas eve is to have a big buffet consisting of ham, pork, fish and different types of sweets. The people of Sweden decorate their trees with straw ornaments and decorate their houses with a lot of candles, bright colours, apples, Swedish flags and gnomes. Another tradition that Swedes like to do is buy advent calender's and attend a Lucia procession. In Sweden, some common foods to eat on Christmas are bread, cheese, butter, potatoes, ham, meat balls, salmon and herring. Another popular Sweden is to serve risgryngrot, which is a special rice porridge with almonds in it. Swedish people believe that whoever finds the almond gets to make a wish or will be married in the upcoming year.
Map Action is an organization that responds to humanitarian emergencies by collecting geographical data about the area and using the most crucial parts in the data to make a map. This is so aid agencies/organizations, governments, and response teams can use the data to help the people in need. They are mainly volunteers who are in that organization, and they really do good work. More organizations need to be like Map Action because the work they are doing is good and most of the time they're not even there physically to help. Recently, two map action volunteers went to Djibouti East Africa to assist with the devastating floods, that affected up to 250,000 people. The amount of water that fell in one day was worth up to 2 years worth of rainfall
I have a lot of different thoughts about the problem of water and plastic in the ocean. There is a large amount of plastic in the ocean and plastic takes a long time to decompose. This means that the animals in the ocean are in danger because they can choke on the plastic and die. There are also a lot of toxins in plastic so this also could affect humans who eat sea animals. The chemicals in plastic are toxic and it can cause a lot of damage to the environment. If humans were to recycle and reuse more then 100 million marine animals wouldn't die a year.
There are about 8 million tons of plastic that go in the ocean a year. The issue I have selected is greenhouse gas emission. I think greenhouse gas emissions are a major priority that needs to be solved because greenhouse gas emissions are a main cause of global warming. The gas stays in the atmosphere and warms up the earth for decades. The earth doesn't need this extra heat and if the earth keeps getting warmer bad things could happen like heatwaves and droughts. If i was older and an adult i would join protesters other groups who are ready to face government officials head on and confront them for not doing anything, if they still don't make a change. Greenhouse gas emissions are a big cause of climate change and if we keep on polluting the earth, in a century from now might not be able to exist.
This link will take you to the story map made by Adeola and I
I think that public transit is a great thing. I think it is a great thing because too many cars cause pollution and if everyone were to drive then the earth would be toxic. Public transit is also great because if everyone were to drive, there would be a lot of traffic and there would be no point in driving because you wouldn't even get anywhere. Public transit is a great use for students to get to and from locations, such as school.
When it comes to city building I think the ancient way is better because the new way was basically build for cars instead of humans. in the olden days, there was no cars, buses, trains, etc. so back then, city builders built the cities for humans, you would have places to interact, communicate, sit down and walk. Nowadays city builders build cities for cars, they add more lanes instead of parks, more highways instead of benches etc. So that is why I think the ancient way is better than the new way.
This is a map of St. Augustine SS, the green circles are push pins which will show you a picture of a variety of places in the school. Such as the track, the portables, the parking lot and the school itself.
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