There are four types of desert biomes that categorize all of the deserts on the earth. Hot and Dry, Semiarid, Coastal, and Cold deserts. We will examine each of the four separately to discuss the uniqueness of each desert biome….
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It has become one of today’s iconic symbols. The melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet has made headlines around the world. While not disputing the fact that Greenland is losing ice, scientists tell a slightly different story from the headline…
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Desert biomes exist when the annual rainfall is less than 50 centimeters annually and they cover about one fifth of the Earth’s surface. Because warm air has the capacity to hold more moisture than average, rainfall is less likely to…
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In the present scenario, where the world economy is in a state of imbalance and market prices of food items is on the increase, survival has become a serious matter of concern for the common man everywhere. He is striving…
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I first came face to face with Dendroctonus Ponderosae about eight years ago. The company I worked for was interested in the possibility of using satellite imagery to track the spread of the mountain pine beetle epidemic, which at the…
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Of the life sustaining biomes, water holds the greatest place of importance. The marine biomes include the oceans, coral reefs and estuaries, with the ocean biomes taking the overwhelming place of distinction. The oceans dominate the Earth’s surface, producing the…
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Once it was thought that the only problems hampering clean and safe water was through direct human pollution put into the environment; it wasn’t thought that the effects of the negative human contribution spanned so much wider. With human-aided acceleration…
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As a key component to life, water is first needed for survival. Originally a nomadic species, humans used to follow their food source and water was a secondary necessity. It wasn’t until the use of domestication that people began to…
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We all are familiar with hurricanes, some people have now fully obtained a sense of the awesome power and energy that one can create, since hurricane Katrina our eyes have opened more to the capabilities of this monstrous wind titans…
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An aquifer is a geologic formation containing water. This body of water occurs within permeable saturated strata of gravel, rock, or sand, and contains water which may supply streams, wells, etc. Aquifers are commonly referred to using the general term…
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