Category Archives: Environment

How much is too much?: Controversial photography of the Haitian Earthquakes

“Did news outlets publish images that were too graphic, and too many of them?” This is the question posed in “Too Graphic?”, a piece by Arielle Emmett. The essay outlines the controversy of posting edgy photographs from a natural disaster, … Continue reading

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Seeing Changes at the Mosquito Lagoon? Concerned? Come Talk about it!

Recent concerns over the large losses of sea grasses and increasing prop scars are causing concern for local fishermen and boaters who regularly visit the Mosquito Lagoon. While the lagoon typically sees a large decrease in sea grass during the … Continue reading

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Family Locates Snake with Two Heads

Finding a snake in your yard may be a little scary, but what about one with two heads? A Greenwood County family is trying to figure out how this is possible, but they’ve been taking care of the little guy for weeks. … Continue reading

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Foreign Species taking over in the South Atlantic and Gulf Coasts

Can you imagine what life would be like if your entire community was being invaded to the point of eradication? What would life be like? What would you do to prevent this from happening? The Lionfish, native to the pacific … Continue reading

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Whats your web presense?

These days you can’t do anything online without making an account. Making an account on a site requires having an email address, giving away information such as your birthday, location and any number of other details. I started thinking not … Continue reading

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A Philadelphia Business Owner Faces Lawsuit for paying $20,000 to clean a Trashed Lot

Have you ever passed by a corporate area or neighborhood with a trashed vacant lot? What if you happened to be an business owner or homeowner that happens to live next to the trashed lot? Would you let it be … Continue reading

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The Power of Blogging and Journalism In an Injustice Nation

I found Franklin’s article on the revolution in Egypt and the role of workers, journalists and bloggers  to be astonishing. We come from a world where one’s opinion is most certainly heard but rarely to the scale of provoking action … Continue reading

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Proposition of Floating Airport in London

We’ve seen futuristic airport ideas for London before, and now here’s a proposal to create a floating airport on the surface of London’s River Thames Estuary. The proposed “London Britannia Airport” would not be built on reclaimed land added to the … Continue reading

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Information Overload – Enough Already

Sharon Begley’s article I Can’t Think! addresses an issue that, I feel, has become a universal problem. That problem is information overload. Ones brain shutting down as a result of being inundated with too many things at once. While not everyone experiences this, for me it … Continue reading

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Where is the Balance?

Where is the balance?  Reading the latest chapter from our Principles of Convergent Journalism book, I wanted to find inspiration for this blog post, so I went to the Orlando Sentinel’s web page looking for a local story that might … Continue reading

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