Earth Science

Getting caught out in a tornado is bad enough without having a dangerously misled concept of how these monsters work in the first place. Compiled here is a list of the worst, most dangerous misconceptions to have about twisters. Knowing the facts could mean…
Read more

To understand the difference between a rainforest and a jungle, we first look at the definitions of “forest” and “jungle”. This is not as easy as it would appear, since there are over 250 definitions for forests, alone! A jungle…
Read more

Ambient, barometric and atmospheric pressure are three terms used to describe different types of pressure that can affect both short and long term weather patterns.  How these different types of pressure can affect the weather varies, however. Atmospheric pressure is…
Read more

Uranium has been mined for years throughout the planet, and provides us with the ability to fuel our nuclear power plants.  Uranium mining specifically refers to the process of extracting Uranium Ore from the ground. This practice is done all…
Read more

It is now generally accepted among paleontologists and geologists that the most likely reason for the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, during the so-called Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, was an asteroid impact. However, there is still some uncertainty…
Read more

The De Beers have long been known as the heirs to the incredibly lucrative diamond cartel, but what is less known is how the De Beers now have a rival for those riches: Russia. With the discovery of diamond pipes…
Read more

The benthic zone is essentially the bottom of the ocean or of any waterway. It is the soil, rocks, outcroppings and other structures of the bottom. In some arguments, wherever there is a bottom in the ocean it is the benthic zone,…
Read more

Don’t let anyone tell you that Ice Ages take thousands of years to happen. After all, anyone that researches what happened to the Woolly Mammoths some 10,000 to 11,000 years ago in the tundra of northern Siberia will understand that…
Read more

Swimming in the Antarctic Ocean or sitting on the polar water front with only a t-shirt on was possible around 50 million years ago; this was a period of time in Earth’s history known as the Eocene. The Antarctic real…
Read more

Alarming new information from the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) suggests that a major disaster in the Himalayas is waiting to happen. According to data compiled by the Kathmandu-based organization, a number of glacial lakes in the region…
Read more