May 20, 2010 / global warming
Lake Tanganyika, the second oldest and the second-deepest lake in the world, is warmer than it has been in more than 1,500 years, a new analysis released today finds. The east African rift lake h
May 18, 2010 / Earth
Lights in the sky have fascinated us for thousands of years. The lights in the far north and south of our planet are some of the more famous ones. What was in that soup? Travel to Antarctica or th
May 17, 2010 / global warming
The Kyoto Protocol was set up in a session of the United Nations in Japan in the year 1997. This initiative was set forth to reduce harmful emissions and to lessen global warming. It was adopted a
May 16, 2010 / space
The launch was the last scheduled for Atlantis, and the third-to-last for the shuttle program. NASA is retiring the shuttle fleet, which began flying in 1981, due to cost and safety issues. Atla
May 13, 2010 / global warming
If you listen to the radio, watch the news on television, or if you surf the internet, there is a good chance that you have heard of global warming before. Global warming is an issue that is increasi
May 11, 2010 / global warming
Climate change could make much of the world too hot for human habitation within just three centuries, research released Tuesday showed. Scientists from Australia's University of New South Wales and P
May 10, 2010 / global warming
Global warming can prove to be a costly occurrence. For many reasons, financial considerations have already been impacted. For anyone who looks to the wallet for an indicator of disaster, trouble
May 8, 2010 / global warming
The world's combined global land and ocean surface temperature made last month the warmest March on record. Taken separately, average ocean temperatures were the warmest for any March and the global l
May 8, 2010 / disasters
With millions of gallons crude oil being spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the focus now is on shutting down the leak. However, in the cleanup efforts to come, “
May 4, 2010 / Planethopia
Socotra is a small archipelago of four islands in the Indian Ocean. The largest island of archipelago is also called Socotra and it is about 95% of the landmass of the archipelago. It lies off some
April 25, 2010 / disasters
Lake Toba is in the middle of Northern Sumatra. It lies about two hundred miles from the epicenter of the magnitude 9.3 earthquake that devastated Asia in late December 2004, as its tsunami swept acro
April 24, 2010 / Earth
Forget expensive machinery, the best way to purify water could be hiding in a cactus. It turns out that an extract from the prickly pear cactus is effective at removing sediment and bacteria from dirt
