Earth Science

Modern weather predictions are primarily performed with numerical weather prediction models, which are programs that run on computers.  To find ways to improve the forecast, it is important to first understand the sources of forecast errors. It is a well-known…
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What most people call “dirt” is being eroded at an alarming rate across most of the world’s land mass and is not replaceable. Soil holds together the masses of entangled roots of the ever-shrinking Amazon rainforest in Brazil, but is…
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Scientists have discovered that the average person takes about 20,000 breaths per day. This works out to be around 10,000 liters of air passing through the lungs per day. It does not matter where you are in the world, the…
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Climate change happens slowly over time.  The evidence is in the sedimentary rock, in the dried sea beds, in the fossils found in places of very different climate today.  Climate change affects all of life, although its impact is measured…
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The purpose of weather vanes has long been solely to determine the direction the wind is blowing. The importance for knowing wind direction has its roots in early times before technological assistance on the prediction of weather has given us…
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According to two research scientists the mystery of vanished ships and airplanes in the region dubbed “The Bermuda Triangle” has been solved. Step aside outer space aliens, time anomalies, submerged giant Atlantean pyramids and bizarre meteorological phenomena … the “Triangle”…
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The intricate development of a coral reef is both detailed and complex. The basic three formation stages of a reef development are the early forming Fringing reefs initiating close to the land, followed by the Barrier Reef forming a well…
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Scott Johnson, a geologist and “Ars Technica” contributor, recently wrote that “[c]ontrary to popular culture, diamonds are not formed from the metamorphosis of coal under tremendous heat and pressure. It makes for nice poetry, but it’s not true.” Indeed, scientists…
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Air pollution does more than obscure a landscape with brown haze. Poor air quality can be found in workplaces and homes as well as outside. Since numerous studies have shown that polluted air has severe adverse effects on humans, taking…
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Just as small jigsaw pieces placed together create a pretty puzzle, if people put some effort in preserving energy every day, our planet would be a better place for all people and future generations to come. It really does not…
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