Research Magazine #1 Overview - Project Planning

I am going to be focusing on magazines containing environmental pollution articles. The first one i found was "TIME The Poisoning of America".The cover shows a cartoon boy with half his face in the water half of his face out that takes up the whole cover. underneath the water the toxic waste turned his face to bone while above the water his face is fine but there's debris all over the shore. Out of the water there is very bright and vibrant color schemes while in the water it is very dark and gloomy and shows skeletons of fish swimming around. Another magazine I have looked at includes "Discover" and "National Geographic". They include articles about environmental disasters and weekly checkups on such things as climate changes and percentages of pollution in certain areas. These articles are located closer to the middle of the magazine that allow for a wide range of open pages to write in. For example, in "Discover", on page 55 through 58 it contains one article out of the 112 pages. Article photos include before and afters of lakes and oceans showing how much pollution has increased over the years. It includes the signature pictures of the sea turtles with plastic around their necks and parks/lakes with dead fish floating up to the banks on the cover. The table of contents contains photos that relate to the article on that page.The distribution number for the "National Geographic" magazine is 6.1 million per month global. This includes a US Circulation of 3.5 million."National Geographic" has won four national magazine awards in the past few years, and over earlier years they have been nominated for over 25 national magazine awards. Overall, these articles seem to hit home when providing people with unexpected information about what is happening with the environment that they see everyday.