Earth Science

A tropical cyclone can come your way as you travel throughout the world. Residents in vulnerable areas are familiar with their region’s storm warnings, but you might not recognize these foreign terms and so not know how dangerous the oncoming…
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Carbon dioxide is a common gas that comes from primarily natural sources, when a carbon atom combines with an oxygen molecule. It makes up a small, but important part of our atmosphere, which is primarily nitrogen and oxygen. Though only…
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Try this experiment: Toss a coin into a kitchen sink filled with water. See the concentric circles rippling out from where the coin dropped into the water? That’s the pattern of the giant killer ocean wave known as a tsunami….
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The Northern Lights, aurora borealis, is the name given to certain bright displays of light which are frequently seen in the skies above the higher latitudes, i.e. towards the Arctic Circle, (Southern Lights, known as aurora australis, can be seen…
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The intertidal zone is the area on a beach situated between the high tide and the low tide. This zone often includes more than one habitat, including wetlands and rocky cliffs. The intertidal zone provides habitat to a variety of…
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The Earth’s surface is covered with geographic features. Mountains, canyons, caves, rocky shores, islands, and beaches are just some of the many examples of different landscapes that are present on the planet. One thing in common that all of these…
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Combustion is the process of rapid oxidation of a substance accompanied by the simultaneous evolution of heat and, usually, light. In the combustion of common fuels, the process is a chemical reaction with atmospheric oxygen. The principal products of the…
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The beauty of science is that it evolves over time as new insights are made into its various fields. Think about climate change, for example: In less than 50 years, we have heard theories ranging from “inevitable ice age” to…
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Tornadoes in Europe as a whole are generally a rare occurrence; even more so in Poland. The data on European tornadoes is sparse because they so rarely occur, but according to one piece of research completed by Nikolai Dotzek, tornadoes…
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Rivers are one of the many features present on the landscape of the planet. They are used for a variety of means, such as for water, transportation, sources of food; but for the most part what goes on beneath the…
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