Earth Science

There are so many environmental exposures that affect human and animal health in so many ways that it is impossible to cover them all. One fruitful way to provide a project that will educate and inform is to use the EPA EnvironMapper for…
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The Federal Emergency Management System (FEMA) in the US recognizes 17 types of natural disasters. They are: Chemical emergencies, dam failures, earthquakes, wildfires, floods, hazardous material incidents, heat, hurricanes, landslides, nuclear power plant emergencies, terrorism, thunderstorms, tornados, tsunamis, volcano eruptions,…
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Although the task to clean your house after a nearby willdfire can be a great deal of work, those who live in fire prone areas consider themselves in most instances fortunate to have a home to return to following the…
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 “Often shalt thou confirm thine airspeed on final lest the earth rise up and smite thee.”  (Commandment number 10 of the Pilot’s Ten Commandments.) Airspeed is the velocity at which an aircraft is traveling relative to the air mass in…
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The human imagination is prone to wild embellishments. Only a few decades ago science fiction writers were confidently predicting that we would be moving around in flying cars; others have confidently predicted that we will be colonising planets by the…
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What causes the Northern Lights? The Northern lights, or aurora borealis, are light displays in the skies that can be seen in the Northern Hemisphere especially near the Earth’s North Magnetic Pole.  Currently the Pole is located in the arctic…
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Environmental and drug exposures have been related to rheumatological disorders for a long time. Lupus is one of the most well known of the rheumatological disorders, but there are others, such as Polyartritis and Kawasaki’s syndrome. These are complex and…
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One only has to look back at the other exploration efforts of man to understand that the benefits from this type exploration will more than outweigh any of the risks involved.  In fact it would appear that when great risks…
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The incredible photos of the massive sinkhole in Guatemala City have the world talking. “Are those photos real?”   “It looks like something out of a movie!”  “How did this happen?” Sinkholes are a common geo-morphic occurrence that range from…
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There is little need to ask how water is misused, it just is, and quite easily with or without one’s knowledge of it. With so many uses for it, there are that many more applications that could shelter inefficiencies that…
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