Cobalt Mining Article Washington Post

RESEARCH CRITERIA:

• Put information into your own words
• Write in point form
• Use 3 to 5 key words at a time (not full sentences or paragraphs copied)
• Use about 3 – 5 different RELIABLE, TRUSTWORTHY sources
• Source is documented correctly, including author’s name, publishing date, title of article, OR name of magazine/newspaper/website, and website URL if it is digital.

Possible Eco-Fair Topics:

Here are just a few possible topics for your independent inquiry project

Sustainability

Data processing centres

Digital currency mining

Comparing energy sources

Pipelines

Oil Spills

Contaminated drinking water

Long term environmental costs of batteries /cars going electric. Solutions? Alternatives?

Open net Salmon farms or fish farms in general

Genetically modified crops/fruit/vegetables/animals

Farming practices (use of glyphosate, peat moss etc)

Greenhouses

Overfishing and/or Fish Trawling

Biodiversity Loss

Animal culling

Habitat Loss (focus on a specific ecosystem)

Amazon Rainforest deforestation

BC Forests mismanagement & loss of old growth forests

Urbanization (growth of cities as population keeps growing – 8+ billion people on Earth and loss of natural ecosystems)

Rare & Precious metals demand (resource extraction of: lithium, gold, silver, copper, coal, nickel, etc choose one mineral to focus on ) for making chips, computers etc

Mining practices contaminating the environment

E-waste: Electronic waste (phones, computers, TVs etc)

Fashion industry excess (jeans, t-shirts, running shoes)

Animal/plant species endangerment

Animal poaching (illegal hunting of ivory, trophy, organs etc)

Inhumane treatment of animals (farming industry, sheep, fur bearing animals, leather)

Food industry (poultry, beef, fast food)

Grocery stores’ waste (over use of plastic, styrofoam packaging, food waste)

Loss of pollinators (bees, birds, and others)

Pesticides, fungicides, herbicides use

Climate change / Climate solutions

Global warming

Ocean pollution

Forever plastics

Increasing Demand for energy

Transportation (cars, planes, tanker traffic)

Garbage and waste environmental pollution