CUNY Academic Commons

Single-use plastics are definitely more cost-effective when compared to any other materials that can be used. However recently there have been efforts to combat the vast increase in the use of plastics and its pollution. Some examples were the recycling of plastics bottles into fibers to create clothing, or the recent ban in NYC on all plastic…[Read more]

The different events from the talks about our sewage system, marine life in the Hudson to the effects of plastics and methods to combat the plastic pollution were all informative and definitely eye-opening not only to the effects we have on the entirety of the Earth but also the huge impact that we have right here in our local neighborhoods. One…[Read more]

When the continents were still together as Pangaea, the plates had separated it into the continents we know today. In the second video, at 9:29 the animation that plays shows two different plates being merged and creating the San Andreas fault, turning 2 convergent plates into one transform fault. My question being over a course of a few million…[Read more]