Earth Science

Swimming in the Antarctic Ocean or sitting on the polar water front with only a t-shirt on was possible around 50 million years ago; this was a period of time in Earth’s history known as the Eocene. The Antarctic real…
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Cold air is usually dry air. That’s why really cold places don’t get a lot of snow. However, a large lake or ocean can change all that. When cold Arctic air sweeps across open water, it picks up moisture. When…
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Who was Norman L. Skene, an MIT graduate born 1878 and lived till 1932 and proved himself as nothing  but a genius of many different disciplines; i.e., a mathematician, a man of oceanographic physics, aerodynamics, designer, artist,  builder, engineer;  a…
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The advance and retreat of ice sheets has been occurring for millennia. Ice sheets grow when snow accumulates faster than it melts. As the snowfall accumulates, its weight presses down on earlier snows and compacts this into glacial ice. An…
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Hurricanes, they are massive weather systems that are spawned in the Caribbean sea and Atlantic Ocean every summer between the months of May and October.  Interestingly enough, storms of this type in the Pacific Ocean are known as typhoons and…
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The United States experienced its first tornado outbreak of 2010 last  week, as tornadoes ravaged large portions of the Deep South and Mississippi River Valley. On average, the United States records more tornado sightings than any other country in the…
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SIGNS THAT SPRING HAS ARRIVED Depending on the weather I usually start to notice signs of spring round about the middle of February at approximately the time of Saint Valentines day, which many years ago was thought by many people to be the…
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The largest earthquake ever recorded struck Chile in 1960, measuring 9.5 on the Richter scale. Approximately 1,655 people died in the monstrous quake. Besides the devastation in Chile, about 140 people died in Japan, 61 in Hawaii, and 32 in…
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We live in a world that appears to be dominated by industrial pollution, a high-tech rat race, soulless city centres and urban sprawl, but when spring arrives it arrives everywhere. The metamorphosis that occurs when winter yields to spring is…
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Number One Must Have Item for a Natural Disaster Whether your region is prone to any type of natural disaster, or not, every home or apartment should have is a natural disaster kit. This kit can be easily organized and filled…
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