Midterm

February 8th, 2021

For this midterm, I explored the essential question "To what extent dams negatively impact the surrounding wildlife/animal habitats?" While I made the title of my infographic a bit more general, I still focused mainly on those aspects. In the podcast below, I give a deeper analysis of this essential question and how it relates back to renewable energy.

https://anchor.fm/irene-montanini/episodes/Midterm-Podcast-eq5695

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