The 2013 Assessment of National Rivers and Streams, conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), found that more than half of US rivers and streams are in poor condition, according to the Huffington Post. According to CBS News, “More than…
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The Dead Sea is a large salt lake which lies between present-day Israel and Jordan, and is famous for its appearance and role in the Biblical narrative of Jesus Christ. It gets its name because, as the lowest-lying lake in…
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A Fringing reef, named for the visual fringe around the shoreline, may be the closest look many who visit the tropics will get to a coral reef. This most common and first stage of reef formation grows best on the…
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Corals reefs are one of the world’s most diverse and unique underwater organisms. Not only do they grow in the shallow waters near the shores of the tropics but they also thrive in the deep cold waters of the ocean….
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The Arctic Ocean does not drip downwards from the North Pole for the same reason that the Antarctic ocean does not pool downwards towards the South Pole: Earth’s gravity pulls all surface objects down towards the core of the planet,…
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Brackish biomesare easy to define in general terms: they are watery habitats that are less saline than the ocean and more saline than the freshwater biomes. But these habitats come in many forms or have many names such as marshes,…
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When people study forests, even in an amateur way, a term that they are likely to encounter is “Montane forest’. If a person doesn’t know what this is in reference to, the term can cause a bit of confusion. The…
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Since the 19th century, we have been aware that the sea-bottom is littered with layers of metallic nodules, also known as manganese nodules, which are generally small but extremely metal-rich rocks containing large quantities of valuable manganese and smaller amounts…
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In light of the recent oil leak/disaster, many people have come to wonder why there aren’t any means of simply sucking the oil/water mixture out of the ocean, separating the two, dumping the oil into a tanker and the water…
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Waterfalls are among the most striking scenes one can find in nature: vast volumes of water plunging over a rocky abyss, producing clouds of vapour and a roar that can be heard for miles. For most people in North America,…
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