Scholastic Update articles from April 1994

Scholastic Update archives from April 1994

O beautiful for spacious skies. (environmental protection) (Cover Story)
April 15, 1994... When Katherine Lee Bates stood atop Pike's Peak in Colorado and composed "America, the Beautiful," she saw a land with amber waves of grain, majestic purple mountains, and fruited plains. But in the 100 years since Bates wrote that famous...

One step at a time. (environmental protection measures)
April 15, 1994... In most parts of the world, environmental awareness does not exist. The great majority of nations concern themselved with economic development, regardless of its effect on the global ecology. But in recent years, as environmental damage has...

Three deadly legacies. (environmental disasters)
April 15, 1994... The past 15 years have produced some of the worst ecological disasters in history. A record oil spill off the coast of Alaska. A massive nuclear meltdown in the old Soviet Union. Unprecedented toxic-waste dumping in Niagara Falls, New York....

Earth's last frontier. (Antarctica)
April 15, 1994... From all appearances, the continent of Antarctica would seem like the last place on earth that human beings would try to exploit. A barren mass of rock and ice set in a harsh, unforgiving environment, the continent has more in common with Mars...

The man who saved Yosemite. (John Muir)
April 15, 1994... President Theodore Roosevelt had just arrived in Yosemite National Park, and he was decidedly not happy. His plans were supposed to have been kept secret, but a large, cheering crowd had met him at the train station. A group of local...

The "nuking" of America. (nuclear testing on humans)
April 15, 1994... Charles Dyer still remembers how excited he was. He was 8 years old when a U.S. government scientist recruited him to join the "Science Club" at the Fernald state school for emotionally disturbed adolescents in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he...

Batteries included. (electric cars)
April 15, 1994... You head out to the garage in the morning and unplug your car from its wall socket. You punch a four-digit code into the keypad on the side of the steering wheel, put the car in drive, and noiselessly pull out onto the road. Arriving downtown,...

Make a friend of the earth. (how teenagers can help the environment)(includes directory)
April 15, 1994... Christian Miller is one of thousands of teenagers who've proven that young people can make a difference in the environmental movement. Miller was 7 years old when one day, walking along the beach near his home in Palm Beach, Florida, he...