Earth Science

What’s most inspiring about “Earth in the Balance” is who wrote it. It’s a big deal, after all, that a sitting senator was willing to write, “We must make the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization.”…
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First, it must be said that an enormous amount of oil is from natural seepage and emergence. It has been estimated that, off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, natural oil seepage has amounted to about 80 Exxon Valdez spills…
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Oil spills have a great negative effect on the ecology of a region. The oil spill immediately permeates throughout the region and attaches itself to anything it touches, including sea creatures, bird life, coral and rocks, shorelines and sand, and…
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Is the Evolution of Humans Destructive to Planet Earth’s Environment? I agree that our evolution is lopsided, and humans are hurtling toward personal disaster with unregulated population growth and ill management of resources, but the Earth is not specifically here…
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Marine slump deposits are masses of coherent material that have been deposited along a ridge or geographical formation. These slumps are often the product of seismic activity, as well as heating and cooling that results in geologic distortions. Slumps often…
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The 2010 gulf oil spill has reminded everyone of one simple thing – when it comes to cleaning up a mess, sometimes the simplest solutions are the best solutions. As phenomenal as technology is, there are several experts in the…
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When we speak about the environment we speak about the sum of elements, factors, behaviors, and conditions that surround and include the human being. It’s all about a black box where we know the entries, we discover the exits and…
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Literacy is defined in the narrowest terms as the ability to read and write in one or more symbolic forms, but applies to far more than translating symbols into meaning. Literacy also involves being able to apply what is read…
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How and why the Earth is tilted are questions still looking for hard fact answers. There are however theories regarding why the Earth and other planets are tilted and the mechanisms of how Earth tilts and what effect the tilt…
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When phrases like transcriptome divergence, plasticity of opsid gene expression and symparitic speciation in a genus pop up, then molecular ecology is probably the culprit! It all begins with evolutionary biology, which is the study of species descent, then their change…
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