Fighting forest fires sounds exciting and adventurous with flames raging through the trees and you struggling to save the woods and everything that lives there. It is a very honorable profession, but most of the firefighters are part time and…
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To understand global warming and cooling, we understand the difference between climate and weather. Much of the argument for or against global warming and cooling is laden with confusion between climate and weather. How can we have global warming when…
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There are two ways in which global warming can become a myth or a “global” rather than “urban” legend. The first way is in the marketing schemes of those who wish to convince the public that global warming is not…
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On April 20, 2010 a methane bubble escaped into a drilling pipe, got past the malfunctioning blowout preventers and shot up the drill pipe to the Deepwater Horizon, causing an series of explosions that killed 11 workers and toppled the…
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Most coral reefs produce by a sexual process. About 25 percent of corals are hermaphrodic. 75 percent of corals are gonochoristic. Both hermaphrodic and gonochoristic corals have types that reproduce sexually or asexually. Corals predominantly produce sexually, or by the…
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Salinity in Australia and its affect! Salinity is the presence of soluble salts in water and soil This includes groundwater and surface water. There are 2 types of salinity: Dryland and Wetland (also known as irrigation salinity). It’s caused by…
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It will be awhile before the total loss has been calculated due to the volcanic ash cloud that has plagued a great part of Europe. Airlines, businesses, food industry, and even the flower industry has been affected. The grand total…
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Eyjafjallajokull (pronounced AY-uh-fiat-luh-YEU-koot-luh, with the ‘EU’ as in liqueur) is a small glacier near the south coast of Iceland which lies on top of the glacial stratovolcano Eyjafjoll. Eyjafjoll is part of Iceland’s East Volcanic Zone, which also includes Katla….
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In your local grocery store, you may have noticed a growing section in produced marked, Organic. You will also note the higher price per pound. The customer must decide whether the increase in price is worth paying for a grocery…
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There is no cost effective method or measure to take that would stop the melting of Greenland’s glaciers in a timely manner. As unfortunate as it is to say, the melting of the world’s ice is a natural phenomena that…
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