Archive for the ‘Nature’ Category

Global Warming: The Arctic ecosystem is changing

“The Arctic as we know it now may soon be a thing of the past,” says Eric Post, a professor of biology at Penn State University, who leads a large team of international scientists to investigate the biological response to warming of the Arctic global. The team collected extensive documentation concerning animals and plants, and [...]

The Atmosphere

The Earth’s atmosphere is the envelope of gas which is the planet Earth. Has a complex structure is divided into several layers, called spheres, which in order of height are: troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, ionosphere, exosphere. The splitting is due to reversing the temperature gradient (physical quantity used to describe the direction and magnitude of changes [...]

Meteor Crater

Meteor Crater (also known as the Canyon Diablo crater, Barringer Crater, Coon Butte or Coon Montain) is a meteorite crater located in Arizona. The Meteor Crater was the first terrestrial meteorite crater, which has been ascertained the origin. Since then it has been found on Earth, the meteorite craters of more than 170 groups of [...]