The Atacama Desert is one of the driest places in the world, second only to The Dry Valleys of Antarctica. It is located in the northern part of Chile and occupies small territories in Argentina, Peru and Bolivia. It is…
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Severe drought can be the catalyst for the spread of infectious disease, famine, and increased stress causing behavioral dysfunction in both humans, animals and insects. Severe drought impacts the life of living creatures in many ways that are still not…
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Buergerite is a rare mineral from the ferric tourmaline group (class is silicates, sub-class is cyclosilicates) that was officially recorded in 1966. The tourmaline group includes the better known schorl, uvite and elbaite. Buergerite is found primarily near Mexquitic, San…
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Deep ocean trenches are formed when a continental plate descends underneath an oceanic plate. This is commonly a process of plate tectonics. The Earth’s lithosphere is divided into 17 large tectonic plates and about 20 smaller plates, all of which…
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Jet streams are very fast moving currents of air found at about 10 km (6.2 miles) above the surface of the earth in the tropopause, which is the transition layer between the Earth’s troposphere and the stratosphere. The major jet…
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What other species in the planet drinks anything other than plain old rainwater? We have fizzy, natural, mineral, tap, filtered and flavoured. And despite, or is it because of, the choice we waste it! Perhaps if we only had the…
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The impact one individual has upon the water resources of our earth may be hard for many to comprehend. We calculate the surface of the world as seventy-five percent water, and think our resources are infinite. We view the earth…
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Ever notice all the references to nature’s wrath, nature’s fury or sometimes of wild places and creatures: savage killing machine, man-eater, perfect predator and so on. It seems every other channel there is shark week, venom avenue and deadliest disasters….
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Research has gone for over a century to measure phytoplankton levels as widely as possible. The conclusion, is that global phytoplankton levels are not only declining, they have been declining for over a century. Since 1899, a very simple tool,…
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Plants play a big role in the survival of all humans and animals in planet earth. It’s either in land or in water. They are needed to balance all the ecosystems. Plants are considered vital in the ocean in order for each…
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