Earth Science

Snow flakes are a source of ongoing wonder to those who ponder their shapes and who try to make sense out of them, and to those who place them in some kind of order. And to be certain, they are…
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Global warming is having almost every imaginable effect on society. Some are still in denial of it. Some are pushing new products that promise ways to buy a way out of the mess. Some are finding that Ecopsychology, the relationship…
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On November 8-9, 2009, the People’s Government of Wuxi Municipality and the UN Global Forum on Human Settlements co-sponsored the 5th UN Global Forum on Human Settlements. The forum, designed to broach several environmental issues such as pollution generated as…
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Shark fin soup is a gourmet Chinese delicacy which is rapidly increasing in popularity as people in China and Chinese communities around the world become more affluent. The practice of shark finning, cutting off a shark’s fins and then throwing…
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A team of 27 scientists from 10 countries worked on the Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST) to discover the nature of the geological phenomenon that led to the March 2011 tsunami in Japan that had devastating consequences for Japan…
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Meteorology is the science of predicting the weather. As with many of the sciences, many overlap into other sciences. In learning how to predict the weather, a person needs to know about geography and climate for a particular area as…
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2011 Hurricane Season Predictions After America faced the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina; there has been an increased apprehension as each “Hurricane Season” approaches. Hurricane season in the Atlantic begins June 1st and ends November 30th. The Eastern Pacific hurricane…
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Professor Raymond Wheeler, from the University of Kansas, at first almost stumbled into the frightening data. The connection was initially discovered by noted Russian scientist Alexander Chizhevsky during 1915: solar storms trigger conflict, wars and death. A vortex of death….
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Sedimentary rocks have a wide variety of uses, making them extremely important. Types of sedimentary rocks have surprising physical, everyday uses and uses in construction. They are also useful to geologists and other scientists with interest in studying the earth….
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Ocean drilling or the probing of the sea floor is an important method used by oceanographers to learn about seas and sea life. In the early years of ocean science, the scientists dredged and collected sediment samples from the ocean…
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