Earth Science

Advocates of organically grown food say it tastes better, is more nutritious and is safer for the environment. Opponents claim this is untrue and cost far too much to be practical. In the end, common sense may settle the dispute…
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In today’s modern world many people are concerned about the environment. We hear talk of our carbon footprint and are constantly being told to cut back on the amount of energy we use. Couple this with the fact that people…
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The Greenland ice sheet and glaciers began melting between 10,000 and 11,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age. At the time, much of the northern hemisphere, including Greenland was locked under as much as a mile…
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When Hurricane Katrina made landfall on Monday, August 29, 2005 it was classified as a category 3 storm. What had started out just a few days earlier as posing very little threat to Louisiana quickly grew into one of the…
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Within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is a division called the Solid Earth Science Working Group. Since the Earth is made up of a liquid core that is filled with molten magma and a solid crust that has…
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It’s almost silent now. Once cows mooed and hoes thunked. Children played. The lonely wind, sighing through ruins of cathedral, house, and barn, is the only sound there is. For after about four hundred and fifty years it was all…
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In September 2010, a Richter 7.1. earthquake ripped through Christchurch, New Zealand, causing considerable building damage but fortunately only injuring two people. Earthquakes aren’t news in New Zealand – in fact, the country’s strong building codes probably saved many lives…
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Have you ever heard of a gift that keeps on giving? That is a good description of sustainable agriculture, and what it keeps on giving is healthy food in an eco-friendly manner, a gift that is extremely important in today’s…
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On the Android and I-Phone, there is an excellent application for tracking earthquakes in a selected area or around the world. The problem with this application is that there is, on average, a 6 plus magnitude earthquake somewhere in the…
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Ecosystems are interdependent cycles of life. Forests support many ecosystems sensitive to extremes of heat, cold, drought and rain. Forest fires would seem to be a destructive force that violently disrupts the harmony of forest life. But forest fires may,…
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