Earth Science

Defining Natural Petroleum Natural Petroleum (also known as crude oil or black gold) refers to the dark-coloured liquid found in porous rocks between the upper layers of some areas of the Earth’s crust. It is a constituent of the major…
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The Golden Age of Antarctic exploration was the age before the machines that made exploration an easier business. This was the age of Shackleton, Scott, Amundson and Mawson. A very romantic era, and yet a stunning testament to the hardships…
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In approximately a hundred years or so the diminishing reserves of fossil fuel will have reached a critical level. There will still be billions of gallons of crude fuel locked deep underground in shale throughout the world. The easy stuff…
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To survive and thrive in the modern world, environmentalism, all sciences, and fields  concerned with  human psychology and sociology must all combine forces.  Creating sensory awareness is a vital aspect of tuning human minds toward belonging on the planet. Ecopsychology…
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Naples is a bustling shipping and cultural center and home to several million people, all living in between Vesuvius on the city’s eastern skyline and the much less famous complex of craters, cinder cones, and steaming sulfur pools known as…
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When people think of rocks, they think of something hard and heavy: we even say that something that doesn’t float “sinks like a rock.” That’s usually true, but there is one fascinating rock type that simply doesn’t follow the rules:…
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Gigantic eruptions from amazing “supervolcanoes” at the top of the world caused the largest mass extinction on Earth, scientists have declared. Supervolcanoes can be found around the planet and three exist in the United States, the most famous of them…
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Information collected, compiled and correlated regarding Earth history proves irrefutably that its age exceeds 4 billion years (BY), 4.6 BY more accurately. Many lines of evidence in various sciences confirm the very ancient origin of rock. Indelibly carved in stone…
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The Nobel Prize is considered the highest award in any given field. It is awarded for yearly progress in scientific or cultural advances in the world. Currently there are five Nobel prizes given out yearly (one for physics, chemistry, physiology…
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Rivers have been the source of many civilization of our planet . The rise and fall of some civilizations can be attributed to the major rivers like Nile, Amazon , and Indus rivers. Rivers have been the source of life…
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