By: Sandra Petersen
In summer of 2003, a 21-year-old man was swimming with friends on Lake Superior's Park Point when he was caught by a rip current. He struggled to swim straight back to shore but became instead one of the more than 100 people in the United...
By: Royce Radcliffe
Acid rain contains numerous kinds of acid that eat away at anything they touch. The only question is to what degree they damage the objects they touch. Acid rain is a huge problem that people need to learn more about in order to better combat...
By: Richard Serra
As Mathew Fontaine Maury collected data from the logs of whaling ships as well as several other sources, he was able to compile maps showing the widespread species of whales and provided a form of identification for each of the species according to color and...
By: Elizabeth Hedger
Ocean tides are the reptitive rise and fall of sea levels relative to the land. In any given day, there are two low and two high tides, with the water constantly moving between the two extremes. Each cycle from high to low to high takes...
By: Asahatter
Fresh water is vital to the lives of many plants and animals, including humans. Most of this water is made available to land-based life by precipitation in the forms of rain and snow.On land, water will either:1. Remain frozen as in the ice sheets...
By: Royce Radcliffe
Even though it may sound like science fiction to you, the possibility of a future in which we end up having to battle each other for dwindling water supplies is a real possibility to many scientists. "Water wars" may sound like a bad Waterworld ripoff...
By: Minh Tran
Lieutenant Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873) is considered the first true oceanographer and his book "The physical geography of the sea" is the first oceanography textbook. Before Maury, the oceans were arguably not studied systematically and scientifically as people focused mainly to describe the commercial routes...
By: Bennie The Ball
It is not really all that difficult to reduce our electricity consumption at home, though it may be more difficult in the office where many things are beyond our control. There are however still ways that we can contribute to a reduction in energy...
By: Desiree Olson
The Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 occurred at 5:04 p.m., right before the World Series baseball game between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland A's. It was an awakening for seismologists to be more aware of these natural disasters due to the fact...
By: Calvin Robinson
European honeybees in the United States, the most common variety, are vanishing at an alarming rate. Some estimates show that we have lost at least half the nation's honeybees in the last 10 years. We have lost nearly 100 percent of the feral (wild) bees...

 

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