Earth Science

The fact that most of the Earth’s surface is covered in liquid water has resulted in the favorable conditions allowing life on Earth. Waters unusually high freezing and boiling points and its stability as a molecule have all contributed to…
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Acanthaster Planci or, the “Crown of Thorns” starfish has received both fame and notoriety in recent years for its mysterious invasion and decimation of sclaractinean corals on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Although there are other contributing factors for the decline…
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We would expect that he official causeof deterioration of coral reefs would be announced as human in origin. But that is not the case. There is much difficulty in relating deterioration in coral reefs to sizable human populations, with their…
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So what’s a little ice lost in the frozen Arctic and Antarctica tundra to those of us who live in temperate and tropical zones?  It doesn’t pose the immediate threat of fires, tornadoes, hurricanes or the creeping threat of millions…
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Challenger Deep is a depression in the southern Mariana Trench, near Guam, which is the deepest known place on Earth. It drops to nearly 36,000 feet below the surface of the ocean. – About Challenger Deep – Challenger Deep lies…
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Thanks to global warming and increased dumping of pollutants in the world’s oceans, nearly two percent of the world’s ocean is today oxygen depleted “dead zones”. This is excluding areas where the quantum of oxygen is far less than what…
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The term footprint has come to mean the balance of carbon dioxide (CO2) taken out of the atmosphere and carbon dioxide put into the atmosphere.  CO2 is removed from the atmosphere primarily by photosynthesis and enters the atmosphere again either through…
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We must listen to the rivers.  Rivers show us that change is part of life and that even  power  has its limits. Generations ago, settlers harnessed the power of water to fill their basic needs. Rivers provided a means of transportation…
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Human water consumption has seemed to gain a lot of popularity in recent years. As the population of the world increases exponentially, the consumption of water is going to continue to raise at an alarming rate. Our world is roughly…
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Immortalised by Johann Strauss II with the Blue Danube Waltz (An der schönen blauen Donau), Europe’s River Danube is one of the continent’s most important rivers. In terms of size, the River Danube flows for 1770 miles, making it the…
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