Besides keeping us warm, the Sun also supplies the energy to drive the Earth’s powerful and complicated weather systems. Wind, rain, snow, hail, fog, frost, heat and cold are the ground-level effects of the Sun’s heat on our planet’s air,…
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Ocean acidification is a global-scale change in the basic chemistry of our oceans, lowering pH levels and effectively causing ocean water to become corrosive. This lowering of pH levels is putting at risk the survival of many species of marine…
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The most disturbing element of deep water oil extraction is always going to be the unknowns that are ignored in favor of ambitions for getting and selling oil. The biggest unknowns include the pressures and physical challenges of installing, maintaining…
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In might be difficult to envisage the spectacle of two hurricanes dancing together but, in effect, this is exactly what happens when the Fujiwhara effect comes into being. The Fujiwara effect is named after a Japanese meteorological scientist, Dr Sakuhei…
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There have been a number of recorded incidences of “killer clouds” recently, yet when one looks at them in detail these articles appear to have little in common in terms of the chemical reasoning or content. Therefore, if one follows…
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Picture it: September 3, 1970 – Coffeyville, Kansas. A hailstone weighing 1.67 pounds, with a diameter of 5.5 inches, hit the ground at an estimated speed of 100 m.p.h. It was officially recorded as the heaviest hailstone to hit the…
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The New Jersey Pine Barrens are named a “Last Great Place” by the Nature Conservatory. They are 1.1 million contiguous acres of dense and scattered forests, bogs, marshes, and grasslands. The Pine Barrens are characterized by highly acidic, sandy soil,…
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The power of the wind is a force to be reckoned with even today, whether on land or at sea, with gentle breezes refreshing our hot summer days or driving wind turbines and storms threatening to bring down power lines…
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Organic farming is a method of production which uses sound husbandry techniques and follows principles and logics of a living organism in which all elements (soil, plants, farm animals, farmer etc.) are closely linked with each other. I’ve taught organics…
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One of the many mysterious forces of our planet is its magnetic field. This field is similar to a bar magnet tilted 11 degrees from the Earth’s spin axis, thus true north is not the same as magnetic north. It…
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