February 10, 2015 Earth Science
Ocean exploration has been one of human being’s occupations since the invention of boats and ocean vessels. Even though, people have sailed the world’s oceans for thousands of years, most ocean exploration has been done at the surface level. It…
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February 10, 2015 Earth Science
SAVING ENERGY: IN YOUR HOME AND IN YOUR LIFE In this tight economy, it is important that we utilize ways to save money and energy. In our homes, we need to know what will cut down on the energy expended….
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February 10, 2015 Earth Science
The magnetic field the earth generates is of extreme importance. Without it, life as we know it would not exist. To see why this is, it is only necessary to understand a few basics about what causes the electro-magnetic field…
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February 10, 2015 Earth Science
When asking what lessons can we learn from “the river”, “the river” is seen as a contributing member of our society. A liquid body of life, that moves with the wind, that contains other life, a water world, a world…
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February 10, 2015 Earth Science
From 1872 to 1876 the HMS Challenger explored all of the world’s oceans, with the exception of the Arctic. The Challenger Expedition is considered the turning point for modern oceanography because it was a large-scale, government-funded project with the sole…
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February 10, 2015 Earth Science
When assessing the accuracy of severe weather warning systems, there is only one truth; the ground truth. That is, having people out there actually witnessing the conditions that exist in real time, then reporting that to the weather service. How…
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February 10, 2015 Earth Science
A river origins, crosses many different landscapes, ups and downs, twists and turns and ends its life somewhere on the way or reaches her destination and adds up for greater something. She embraces many lives in her body, she feeds…
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February 10, 2015 Earth Science
In regards to issues currently approaching, rivers are a natural phenomenon to us people of today. In fact, rivers are the very beauty of life. Without such marvels of nature, we wouldn’t have water. We wouldn’t have the beautiful creatures…
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February 10, 2015 Earth Science
Extinction, a fact of life Extinction of species, genera and sometimes families has been a part of the history of life on earth since life first appeared approximately 3.8 billion years ago. Whenever a species reaches a point on its…
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February 10, 2015 Earth Science
When the Challenger set out in 1872 on its four-year scientific expedition to traverse the oceans of the world, it was major news. Nowadays it requires the landing on a distant planet, or one of those recurrent atom smashing feats…
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