The Tagish Lake meteorite which fell over Canada in 2000 has provided NASA researchers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston with a golden opportunity to study organic materials created in the far distant areas of our early solar system….
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Lightning, put simply, is an electrical discharge. Essentially it is sparks, but the term lightning is used when this happens on a far larger scale than you would get stroking a cat with a piece of plastic. Lightning is associated…
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Both the winter and summer solstices have been an important part of human understanding regarding the changes in seasons for millennia. The differences in the two solstices are central to daily living. Although the importance may have been lost to…
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What could the worst case scenario be if an inbound hurricane crosses the Gulf oil spill before hitting the US coast? Considering the extent of oil extraction operations in the Gulf of Mexico and its well-known efficacy for producing storms…
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Both the North and South poles are thought to be mineral and recourse rich, meaning there are a lot of countries who think they have a right to claim parts of them for themselves. At the moment there is an…
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To the untrained eye Moorland and Lowland heath looks much the same and indeed they are very similar habitats. The significant different is in altitude; moorland is found on higher altitudes than lowland heath. For example Moorland can be found…
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Since the record heat, fires and droughts of 2012, the freak storms and swarms of tornadoes, floods, hurricanes such as Sandy and its aftermath, and much more, there are fewer skeptics about climate change. There is still however, a great…
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Without a doubt, more than one insurance company will face bankruptcy as a result of the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy that struck the Northeast United States during the last week of October, 2012. The destruction caused by what is…
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Wind generally flows from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure. There are a number of factors that affect wind direction and speed; the Coriolis force, friction, Rossby waves, pressure gradient, intensity of sunshine, and earth’s…
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A hurricane is a strong storm system with damaging and violent winds accompanied with torrential rains. Hurricanes can develop in the Atlantic, Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Other countries may refer to it as typhoon and tropical cyclone. How does…
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