VIKINGFOR STUDENTS, BY STUDENTS NEWSApril 20, 2018 Saving the Environment for Dummies By: Veronica Flesher 3. Bring your own or small appliances, try bags. donating or reselling Saving the Carrying in groceries them. environment sounds after food shopping can difficult, but there are be a pain, but consider 5. Start composting. many easy ways for the environmental Do you throw anyone to help. impact of those plastic away things like coffee It may not seem like bags. They are not grounds, potato peels a lot, but small actions biodegradable and and eggshells? You can be do add up. It does not frequently pollute composting these things have to be anything the ocean, killing sea and you do not even huge; in fact, there are creatures. Next time, need to leave your house. plenty of simple ways bring your own bags to Create a compost to help the planet. the store. Not only are heap in your yard where Here are five easy reusable bags better for you can toss food and things anybody can do the environment, they yard waste. Worms and to do their part. are stronger and carry bacteria will break down more than a plastic bag. the waste and turn it 1. Try a meatless into a wonderfully rich Monday (or any day 4. Reduce, reuse, and soil that you can use for of the week). recycle. some potted plants or Eating beef is It seems like it should flowers. SPOTLIGHT ON OCC’S more harmful to be common knowledge, Or if you are feeling the environment but many people do not ambitious, you can start ANIMAL RIGHTS CLUB: than driving a car, a know about recycling in your own garden with report by National Ocean County. Make some favorite fruits and Geographic said. sure to recycle things like vegetables or maybe By: Jane Bowden, Editor Going vegetarian glass, aluminum, plastic some native Ocean OCC’s Animal Rights Club is looking for or vegan can greatly (types one and two), County plants. There reduce the members interested in spreading awareness on strain on the Even the smallest is a reason New the protection of animals and the environment. environment, act can reduce your Jersey is called the but if that “Garden State,” Led by President Sabrina Scutt and Vice seems too carbon footprint and after all. President Daniel Varall, members meet every drastic, try benefit the planet. Composting Monday from 2 to 3 p.m. in room 211 in the going a day will use up your Student Center to organize donations for no-kill of the week without paper, and corrugated waste that was previously and rescue shelters. For students unable to join, any meat. There cardboard. Other items thought to be trash, save contributions of money, animal food, toys and are plenty of meat like batteries, paint cans, you money on expensive alternatives that can be computers and more fertilizers, and reduce more are accepted. found at the grocery can be brought directly your carbon footprint. “Growing the club from the ground up hasn’t store. Or you can try to county recycling A great way to help the been easy, but we don’t give up for what we other proteins, such facilities, located in planet is to give back as chickpeas, lentils or Lakewood and in believe in,” Varall said. “We are still looking for what you take from it by more people to get involved to make the world quinoa. Manahawkin. composting. Even better than a better place.” 2. Buy local and Many people will not recycling is reducing take action to help the in-season produce. and reusing. The over- For more information, contact Scutt at sabrina_ All the fruits and packaging of items environment because [email protected] or Varall at daniel_ vegetables in the creates major stress on they feel it is too big [email protected]. grocery store have the environment. of an issue. However, traveled many miles Try to reduce your even the smallest act to get there, and the consumption of products can reduce your carbon transportation created and buy things with less footprint and benefit the a lot of pollution. packaging, and reuse planet. Head to the farmer’s the items you have. Jars, Examine your own market and pick up bottles, cans and jugs can actions and figure out some locally grown be easily repurposed into how you can limit fresh produce. It helps a lot of things. negative environmental the environment and If you have things impact. You will be when in-season, it you do not want but are surprised by just how tastes even better. still usable, like clothes easy it is. Join the Viking News We are looking for a few good writers, photographers and artists to join our staff. Get great experience and have some fun. No experience necessary. Email [email protected] “Sheep” Illustration by OCC student Max Carrier Ocean County College • College Drive, P.O. Box 2001 • Toms River, NJ 08754 • 732.255.0481 ON CAMPUS & MORE The Effects of Climate Change on Plants and Animals By: Ryan Ramakrishnan Thanks to global leafed out earlier, while correlates only the warming and “spring now the caterpillars’ arrival also temperatures and the arriving several weeks saw an earlier time frame, deaths of caribou calves. earlier in parts of the yet the flycatchers still Earlier greening in the world than it did a few had the normal departure arctic plants may make decades ago,” many species from Africa to Europe them less nutritious by are struggling to properly and weren’t meeting at the the time caribou arrive, adapt, the New York right times. Post said. Times recently reported. Northern Lapwing and Snowshoe Hare Scientists that have The brown fur of studied the effects of Eurasian Curlew The Northern lapwing and snowshoe hares changes seasonal changes on plants to white at wintertime and animals have coined Eurasian curlew in Finland lay their eggs after the for the purpose of the phrase “phenological camouflage. mismatch,” the New York farmers have sown their crops during the spring. “As the earth has Times said. warmed however, snow Five examples of With rising temperatures however, the birds started covered in the hare’s species scientists have habitat melts sooner, Illustration by OCC Student Amanda Habe found to be threatened by laying eggs earlier at the fields not yet attended leaving the animal more global warming, according exposed to predators,” to the New York Times, by the farmers. This CAMPUS BRIEFS are: means “well-concealed the New York Times nests are more likely to said. Phi Theta Kappa Presents Mathematics Spider Orchid get destroyed by tractors “Camouflage is Spider orchids trick and other machinery,” critical to keep prey Awareness Month Lecture “All About Ada” male bees into believing the New York Times said. animals alive,” L. Scott the plant is a mating Researchers are finding the Mills, a professor of By: Lindsey Markowitz Finland farmers to sow the wildlife biology at the Ocean County College’s Tau Iota Chapter of Phi Theta partner. With spring arriving earlier in some fields in advance but still University of Montana, Kappa presents “All About Ada,” a lecture by Mike seeing the birds lay their said. Mills found, for Pezzimenti on Tuesday, April 24. parts of the world, there is an earlier emergence eggs there two to three every week the snowshoe “All About Ada” will be presented in Room 128 of the of female bees that lure weeks prior now. hare was mismatched, it the males away from the was seven percent more W. Kable Russell Building from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Caribou orchids, a 2014 study in vulnerable to predators Pezzimenti will lecture about the computing pioneer, In western Greenland, Ada Lovelace. “All About Ada” is the last lecture in a five Britain said. “The main such as the lynx. The finding is that things are caribou eat lichen in the lecture series celebrating Mathematics Awareness Month winter but travel inland to hare is currently only 2018. The lecture is free to attend. getting increasingly bad mismatched by a week for orchid,” Anthony eat arctic plants and give birth as well in the spring or two but could extend Lovelace is considered to have written the first Davvy, a professor of upwards of eight weeks, instructions for computer programming in the mid- biological science at the and summer. With warmer temperatures in Greenland he said. 1800s. Although she died in 1852, her work was not University of East Anglia “If that were to recognized until the 1950’s. Her work was re-published said. and the declining of sea ice, the arctic plants are happen,” Mills said. in “Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital “[the hare] would Computing Machines” in 1953. Since the republishing European Pied Flycatcher greening up to 26 days From Africa, the earlier, the New York start declining toward of her work, Lovelace has received many posthumous extinction.” honors and awards. European pied flycatcher Times said. flies north to lay eggs for Scientists have found There may be a the arrival of the winter the region to show caribou chance for species like moth caterpillars. The calves dying earlier on the snowshoe hare to caterpillars in turn munch when the seasonal plant adapt with the upcoming on oak leaves during the growth comes so many generations with spring. days to weeks prior to the protection of the more Scientists in the migration of the caribou. adaptable parts of the Netherlands studied in the “It’s consistent with populations, the New 2000s that many of the the idea that mismatch York Times said.