"I miss playing football with my friends."

Having nothing much to do, children quarantined at home from the coronavirus pandemic are drawing what they miss the most: friends at school, grandparents, football, open spaces, and more. However, research shows that many children are drawing the same ideas over and over again. Ranging from Tokyo to Buenos Aires to New York, young kids have taken their art pieces to their balconies or front lawns for Reuters photographers.

Moreover, in the German town of Bad Honnef, a six-year-old boy named Tom [above] said, "I have painted a picture of the house of grandma and grandpa, because I miss them so much." Aside from the wish for seeing familiar people, children are also emphasizing the sports they miss.

Greenhouse gas emissions, which is one of the main factors in climate change, is considered to be a highly severe issue, and it has affected countries all over the world, including Canada. From 1990 to 2018, greenhouse gas emissions in Canada increased by 20.9% due to transport, mining, gas production, and upstream oil. However, the intensity of GHGs, measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide, went down by 10%. In fact, a majority of electricity in Canada non-GHG emitting sources during 2018. Between 1990 and 2017, energy efficiency improved but so did energy consumption.

If greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, it will likely affect the health of Canadian citizens and the economy of Canada. The increasing temperatures from greenhouse gas emissions will have multiple repercussions such as rising sea levels and risk of death by heatstroke. To prevent climate change caused by greenhouse gases, renewable resources should replace fossil fuels.

Although many people do not realize it, greenhouse gases are actually vital to human life on Earth, and they are the reason why we are able to not be overheated by the sun when going out for a walk or become frozen when we visit our friends and family outside. In other words, GHGs maintain conditions that make life possible on Earth mainly because it keeps some of Earth’s heat and energy, so it does not escape into space or the atmosphere. This process of trapping heat is known as the greenhouse effect. If there is too little greenhouse gas, then the Earth would become extremely cold. On the other hand, if there is too much GHG, then the planet that we call home would become an uninhabitable land of heat. Consequently, this is why maintaining the perfect balance between carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms are so important.

When people say that the cases of COVID has hit the highest it's ever been in the past few months, it would be plausible to believe that it would be bad news. However, it's actually news that can save lives.

Illinois officials have stated for weeks that the state has been “bending the curve” on the COVID-19 rate of growth. Based on the research shared Thursday, April 23rd, the leaders say that they think Illinois is coming to its peak. Some models suggest that COVID-19 deaths in Illinois have already peaked (University of Illinois). Others, however, project a peak arriving on May 6 (University of Chicago). Peak or plateau? Many people including the governor, Chicago’s mayor, and other public health officials have reported that the peak is more like a plateau. On Thursday, as mentioned above, the charts were revealed, and Pritzker emphasized how there was such a large variation in the deaths. "Reality swings up and down, sometimes drastically — a fact that can’t be captured by a simple median line."