Earth Science

Safe Water World Wide Starts with You. I could sit here and paint a picture of words, but they are just that – words. To correct our water problems through out the World we need action and change. Everyone asks…
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Massive wildfires in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico during the summer of 2011 have highlighted the fact that summer heat brings summer wildfires.  Why is summer fire season though?  The best answer is that fire loves heat.  In summer a glass pane leaning…
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Water (H2O) is the most abundant molecule on Earth. Water covers approximately 70% of the Earth´s surface. The oceans contain about 96.5% of all water on the planet and 3.4% is found in lakes, rivers and ice glaciers; the remaining…
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A limnic eruption occurs when carbon dioxide (CO2) trapped in deep lake water erupts to the surface, displacing the lake water, and possibly causing a tsunami. As a result of the CO2 released, any wildlife or humans in the vicinity…
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If you live between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, the amount of daylight you get each day doesn’t vary much. If you live near the equator, it’s pretty much thirteen-hour days and eleven-hour nights year round,…
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Globigerina ooze is the most common type of calcareous sediment from planktonic origin found at the bottom of the ocean. Foraminifera are single-celled zooplankton organisms, whose tests (shells) comprise a large portion of the calcareous biogenic ooze (globigerina ooze) found…
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When it comes to statistics, the mighty Amazon River can certainly lay claim to a few rather impressive figures. It’s the world’s largest river by volume and is second in length to the River Nile, coming in at 6,516 Kilometers…
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People looking at a map of the world today will have a great deal of trouble in locating Rhodesia, as it is a country that does not exist. People who recognise the name may simply equate it with modern day…
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We all need to save water, especially during a drought, saving water also saves you money. Saving water can be very simple and very easy, remember always encourage your kids to save water, this is a good practice, because if…
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If the term sea is used, as it commonly is, to describe that great mass of salt water which covers some three quarters of the Earth’s surface, then the Dead Sea is no sea at all, for at no point…
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