Earth Science

The beauty of science is the fact that most scientists are skeptical by nature and what was once thought of as fact, can then change and be replaced by a new fact. In 2006 Pluto, the ninth planet of our…
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Spices can give new life to bland, boring foods. Some spices have a savory taste and are used to enhance the flavor of meats or vegetables. Other spices are sweet and act as a crucial ingredient in cakes or desserts….
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Curing Our Hydrocarbon Addiction: Though there is much misinformation concerning these matters, I am happy to inform you that all of the technologies necessary to cure our hydrocarbon addiction already exist. In fact, most have been around for decades. This…
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The Easterly Waves ,although capable of producing destructive tropical cyclonic damage, used to be a welcome, even life-saving sight to early seafarers who were coming out of the Doldrums. The Doldrums represents an area of ocean on the equator which…
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Saving energy is increasingly important as the cost of energy goes up. The benefits for the environment are numerous when you reduce your energy consumption. The amount of energy used can be reduced at home, the office and virtually anywhere…
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Geographers define an Ice Age as a period in Earths history when there are polar ice caps. That means that for all intents and purposes we are still in the middle of an Ice Age. The fact that ice caps…
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Pliny the Elder, Gaius (Caius) Pinius Secundus, a natural philosopher and author of note was a native of Como (located in the Nile Delta Region of Egypt). In speaking of the Nile River, he said that once it reached the…
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One of the most easily recognized sea creatures is the seahorse, or hippocampus. Everyone knows what they look like, but few know much of anything else about them. Many people, even in this day and age, still think they are…
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Drinking water is not what it used to be. Once, not so long ago, our drinking water was relatively safe. Now there are a numerous ways in which individual wells are contaminated as well as many community water systems becoming…
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The Norfolk broads include scientific interest sites such as the R. Thurne and Hickling Broad, knowledge of ion chemistry helps management of these sites, for example some macrophytes can use bicarbonate for photosynthesis (Maberly, 2002). Hickling broad, which receives aerial…
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