Alexander Xia (’24) is a Staff Writer for The Lancer.
The Great Green Wall strives to restore Africa’s Sahel-Saharan region
by Alexander Xia (’24) | February 14, 2022 Started by the African Union in 2007, the Great Green Wall project is an initiative to grow an 8000 kilometer forest through the Sahel-Sahara region as an effort to fight land degradation and climate change. The initiative boldly promises to restore 100 million hectares of forest, sequester…
SpaceX’s first civilian launch
by Alexander Xia (’24) | October 11, 2021 On September 15, SpaceX sent out a mission called Inspiration 4 on its Crew Dragon capsule. The capsule spent 72 hours in orbit before landing off the coast of Florida. The first time a human orbited the Earth was 1961, more than 60 years ago. Since then,…
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