What would the world be without rain? A dry, sandy, thirsty desert where no living being would be able to survive. Gratefully, even deserts have their small share of water and its vegetation and living creatures reflect it’s presence. If…
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Longest Rivers on Earth The 5 longest rivers on Earth are the Nile, the Amazon, the Yangtze, the Missouri and the Yenisei Rivers, respectively. Of the most famous, Africa’s Nile River is also the longest, totaling an amazing 6,650 kilometers….
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Spectacular, breath-taking and impressive, from a visual point of view Fjords can almost be defined as traditional landmarks depicting the great Norwegian country. Their stunning beauty has been a very well known touristic attraction for the many travelers that gather…
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Deepest Lakes in the World The Earth’s surface is riddled with water bodies of various shapes, sizes and, of course, depths. Moreover, the water varies between salt water and freshwater, and the bodies range from oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, streams…
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While being one of the most enchanting places on Earth, the oceanic realm is sadly deteriorating at a very fast rate. Various activities undertaken by mankind are polluting the oceans, rendering their inhabitants unable to survive, let alone proliferate. The…
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Ocean heat content refers to the amount of heat that the Earth’s oceans store. During the last part of the 20th century, scientists and conservationists became concerned with ocean temperatures, suspecting the world’s oceans were warming up. Today, ocean heat content measurements…
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Essential for life and covering approximately seventy per cent of the Earth’s surface, water really is a remarkable substance. Existing in a multitude of forms, whether as snow, ice, cloud or vast deep oceans, water has a number of unique…
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As the world uses more and more man made synthetics and chemicals, the risk of these ending up in the world’s oceans and other waterways increases. Companies and private citizens have been negligent in their control of pollutants like these…
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The main effect that pollution has on the ocean is to kill the flora and fauna that inhabit it. It does this because many people have a total disregard to the poisonous materials that are dumped into the ocean on…
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Being able to understand marine life means also understanding the places marine animals inhabit. The ocean contains ninety nine percent of living space in the world. There’s been life in the ocean for 3.4 billion years, as where land inhabitants…
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