Earth Science

Diverting a major hurricane, yet any form of impending natural disaster is dealing the cards that God had planned for His earthly creation. It is a shame that so many hurricanes that have already occurred came with a price, but…
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Creating a record of climate change for the last 1000 years is important to put more recent measurements and predictions of future climate change into perspective and to answer the questions of anthropomorphic or man made climate change. People can…
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Nickel is one of the world’s most heavily utilised metals, and is commonly found in domestic and commercial settings. Few people will perhaps realise just how widespread nickel usage is though as nickel is primarily used as an alloy, meaning…
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Towering dark gray clouds reach into the sky in the distance. A top-hat shaped formation appears above the column of clouds. The edges of the cloud mass are puffy and rolled up. The front of the air mass curves as…
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Coral reefs are marine ecosystems that are important for recreational, tourism, commercial, and fishery industries around the world. Diverse plants and marine animals in the coral reef ecosystem provide a rich resource from where scientists obtain natural products to treat…
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A coral reef ecosystem consists of marine structures made of calcium carbonate secreted by living organisms. Most coral reefs are built by stony corals. Stony corals consist of hundreds of thousands of small animals known as polyps that form colonies…
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There are a few factors that will lead to a colder climate. While there are continuous fluctuations of temperatures, there are some regions that continually exhibit the coldest temperatures on the planet. The two factors leading to a colder climate…
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Ground fog is a collection of water droplets in the air that forms at ground surface. Fog at ground surface can reduce visibility to about 1 km (62 miles). Most ground fog forms near a body of water (lake, ocean,…
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Fog will occur when the air closer to the ground becomes trapped by warmer air above it then the temperatures drop and the moisture in the air condenses causing fog. Now that is a scientific fact, unfortunately London’s fog issues…
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A puff of heated air blows off the western coast of Africa out over the warm waters of the Atlantic sometime between the months of June and November. Carried by the trade winds, this small mass of air is called…
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