Geologists have uncovered evidence of when Earth was first able to support oxygen-rich atmosphere similar to what we experience today and more so, take for granted.
Research shows that it was 500 million years ago that a reversal took place,...
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Plate tectonics has puzzled scientists and geologists for long. More baffling is the drive mechanism of the plates. Is it the convection currents that drive the plates? How is heat generation varies at times?
Plate tectonics is the story of the...
Present is a key to the past, but past holds the key to the future. The sudden change in climate set the evolution process at par with extinction, resulting in the disappearance of a vast number of species. Reason? Lets find out.
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After leaving their mark all over the world, it is now time for the human beings to find a place elsewhere to accommodate gradually growing community and cater their needs. This time NASA plans to colonize Mars, by means of plantation on the planet and...
Are we actually responsible for global warming? Or our ancestors? Discovering that the earth suffered a sudden, severe period of global warming approximately 180 million years ago, researchers have helped soften the abysmal debate and pounding guilt for...
As an avid student of geology, I have followed every little change in the geography of the earth. And having read so much about the phenomenon occurring on and inside the earth, it comes as no surprise to me that the earth is smaller in size than...
Until now it were the environmentalists and ecologists raising concerns about the ever-surging levels of what we all call Global Warming, but now a group of eminent scientists have warned of this imminent disaster waiting to devour us all. And to...
The plate tectonics theory has been taken as the base of the formation of the continents on the Earth. But when the plates began to move, had put geologists in a quandary for a long time now. A recent find, described in the journal Science, shows the...
What tore the ozone apart in the Earth's stratosphere? Human-made chemicals? True. But, not to the extend what a massive solar flare did in 1859! It all happened in the last 500 years by the largest solar flare that may have shredded the Earth's ozone...
Who do you think is the world's top destroyer of the environment? Emissions from Car or the planes or George Bush. However, these all have contributed to the great extent in destroying the environment but meet the new one- it is the cow.
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Heard of mermaids and how about "mermaids' tears", sure it doesn’t mean the weeping mermaids. But that’s what I thought when I first read the word "mermaids' tears". These are microscopic particles of plastic that could be poisoning our...
The Earth is getting warmer, and scientists mostly agree that humans bear some blame. It's easy to see how global warming could flood cities and ruin harvests. More recently, researchers raised the alarm that our planet could also assist the...
“Earth might end up like Venus! Temperatures here may rise to 250 degrees centigrade and raining sulfuric acid!” It is said by one of the world's leading theoretical physicists, and cannot be ignored. Steven Hawking warned this in a recent talk in...
These are the largest known crystals on earth! These magnificent crystals were formed in a natural cave that is totally enclosed in bedrock. Appearing to be a Land of the Giants, these crystals are found deep inside a southern Chihuahua Mexico mine....
The planet earth may have been evolved by the LIFE on it. That ancient microbes provided the chemical energy to create the Earth's continents in which life helps create the conditions it needs to survive, is the idea. This is concluded by a nod to...
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