Biology 1110 EXTRA CREDIT

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Write a one-page report on an article below and give a brief presentation for 4 points each, up to a total of 20 points.
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Write a nature article for The Courier, 20 points. AP style suggested.

Chapter	1	Environmental Literacy Greenhouse Effect on Venus Space Today Online 2005 The Fate of Easter Island NOVA 4/20/04
Chapter	2	Science Literacy and the Process of Science Greener, HFC-free refrigerator set to enter U.S. market in 2011 Washington Post 12/26/10 EPA Approves Hydrocarbon Refrigerants for Commercial and Household Use Environment News Service 12/15/11
Chapter	3	Information Literacy Should DDT Be Used to Combat Malaria? Scientific American 5/4/09
Chapter	4	Environmental Economics and Consumption TacTiles glue-free adhesion, mimicking gecko Interface
Chapter	5	Human Populations
Chapter	7	Ecosystems and Nutrient Cycling NZ flatulence tax outrages farmers BBC News 6/20/03 Cow Power Could Generate Electricity For Millions ScienceDaily 7/25/08 Dishes Still Dirty? Blame Phosphate-Free Detergent NPR 12/15/10
Chapter	8	Population Ecology
Chapter	9	Community Ecology The Decline of Eastern Songbirds Birds of Stanford Intracellular symbioses in insects U. of York Parasite Infection May Benefit Multiple Sclerosis Patients ScienceDaily 1/18/07 Wildland Fire in Yellowstone Yellowstone National Park 12/22/04
Chapter	15	Marine Ecosystems How Dangerous Is It to Use Cyanide to Catch Fish? Scientific American 8/10/11 'Eco-Friendly' Chilean Sea Bass May Not Be So Green ScienceNOW 8/22/11 Farmed Salmon Decimating Wild Salmon Worldwide National Geographic News 2/12/08 Farmed Salmon - Seafood Watch Monterey Bay Aquarium
Chapter	17	Freshwater Resources Canada Water Week: discover our water footprint Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation 3/19/12 Water use: Shower vs. bath 4/02/09 Reverse Osmosis Moves Forward. Environmental Health Perspectives Jan 2005 Mitigation Banking Factsheet EPA 1/12/09 Chicago-area wetland mitigation banks are bogged down Chicago Tribune 1/28/09
Chapter	18	Water Pollution Native Plants and Streambank Stabilization Naperville Park District 2010 Gulf of Mexico undersea oil spill plumes doubled back USA Today 01/09/12 Chicago takes the LEED in eco building Grist Magazine 9/9/10
Chapter	24	Petroleum Oil Without End? Revisionists say oil isn't a fossil fuel. CNNMoney 2/17/03 ExxonMobil Oil and Gas Exploration Is Root Cause of Whale Deaths in Madagascar Huffington Post 9/26/13 Oil & gas industry spills happen all the time CBS News 4/12/11 Louisiana Seafood: In wake of BP spill and river diversions, oysters show strain 7/13/13 Cuadrilla admits drilling caused Blackpool earthquakes The Telegraph 3/4/12 Hydraulic Fracturing for Natural Gas Pollutes Water Wells Scientific American 5/9/11 The Golden Age of Fracking in Europe and China Time 5/21/12 Greenpeace slams Israeli firm for oil plan Jerusalem Post 1/04/12 Energy sector taps bitumen, sticky rival to oil sands Business News Network 7/8/13
Chapter	26	Climate Change Milankovitch Cycles and Temperatures ClimateData Ice Core Data Help Solve a Global Warming Mystery Scientific American 3/1/13 Ice core dating using stable isotope data University of Copenhagen Northwest Passage a rival to the Panama Canal? Nunatsiaq News 5/17/13
Chapter	27	Nuclear Energy Radiation Protection: Radon EPA /13/13 Radioactive Smoke: A Dangerous Isotope Lurks in Cigarettes Scientific American 1/5/11 Fission Fragments HyperPhysics Nuclear Waste: Yucca Mountain’s Scrapped, So What Now? Wall Street Journal 2/26/09 Greater Danger Lies in Spent Fuel Than in Reactors New York Times 3/17/11 Nuclear Reprocessing: Dangerous, Dirty, and Expensive Union of Concerned Scientists 4/05/11
Chapter	28	Sun, Wind, and Water Energy Bats and Birds Face Serious Threats From Wind Energy New York Times 8/8/11 Chicago Suburb Approves Nation's First Offshore Wind Farm AOL Real Estate 4/15/10 Wind turbines stir up bad feelings, health concerns in DeKalb County Chicago Tribune 3/14/10 Wind Energy Gets Away With Murder Forbes 9/22/13 Whale-Inspired Wind Turbines MIT Technology Review 3/6/08 Landscaping for an energy-efficient home South Dakota Public Utilities Commission Mirrors, not panels, hold key to solar energy future Greenbang 3/9/12 Novel Solar Photovoltaic Cells Achieve Record Efficiency Scientific American 1/17/13 Geothermal quake risks must be faced Nature 12/16/09
Chapter	29	Biofuels Ethanol, E85, Flex Fuel Discovery Channel 9/20/11 Cellulosic Ethanol Industry Faces Big Challenges Technology Review 8/12/13 Palm Oil & Biofuels Sumatran Orangutan Society Conservation Reserve Program: cropland & wetlands go hand in hand Ducks Unlimited Algae: Biofuel Of The Future? ScienceDaily 8/19/08 Pond Scum Biodiesel Biodiesel 2/3/07 Purple Bacteria Best for Harvesting Solar Energy ScienceDaily 5/5/10 Surprising Findings On Hydrogen Production in Green Algae ScienceDaily 4/15/13 Has the fuel cell car's time finally come? Fortune Magazine 8/15/13
Chapter	30	Managing Solid Waste The Garbage Barge No One Wanted greenopolis Chicago's blue bag recycling program: Garbage in, Garbage out Chicago Daily Observer 5/12/08 Why Can't Chicago Recycle? Chicago Reader 7/22/10 How to compost meat Clean Air Gardening Vermicomposting: Composting with Worms UNL Extension in Lancaster County September 08 Is incineration holding back recycling? Guardian Environment Network 8/29/13 Billionaires bankroll new space company for asteroid mining Seattle Times 4/24/12


Biology 1110 EXTRA CREDIT	Updated: Dec 12, 2013.	^© Copyleft Peter Chen