Essays on Earth

Volcanoes are openings in crusts of the Earth that permits molten rock from underneath the crust to arrive at the surface. Hot spots are areas that have thin crust and place where eruptions can take place. Magma is the given name to this molten rock...

1896, Arrhenius wrote a paper on the effects of human CO2 emissions on global temperatures. 1960 Keeling accurately measured the CO2 levels in the atmosphere, and found a connection between CO2 and global temperature. 2001 the third IPCC report found that global warming will have...

300, 000 years ago, there were at least 24 species on Earth, except for Homo sapiens. Today is an exceptional age when only one species of humanity is alive on Earth. The reason for the extinction of other species is not yet revealed. Neanderthal man,...

Mean oxygen consumption rates were collected for crayfish (Orconectes propinquus) acclimated to either warm (20-25°C) or cold (3-5°C) temperatures at time intervals of 30 minutes and 1 hour. Warm crayfish were placed in water at an average temperature of 19. 967 ± 0. 284 °C...

The ozone layer; it protects life on earth from all the radiation emitted from the Sun, including the cancer-causing UV rays (ultraviolet light). In other words, it acts as nature’s sunscreen! However, there are many chemicals that destroy this layer; one of them being chlorofluorocarbons...

Just like the catastrophe on Easter Island, the catastrophe on Earth would be man. The humankind is making progress in contradicting ways(both good and bad). We(the mankind) don’t know where we came from, what is our role on earth, what are we doing and most...

Ancient spirits and higher-beings have been depicted in various ways for several centuries and are still being depicted in modern pop culture today. The Tang dynasty was very rich in culture and folk religion. It is after all known as the “Golden age” of art...

From a young age, I found myself to have a natural affinity with nature and its’ wildlife. Growing up in a rural area in south-central Kansas gave me the resources I needed to make this connection and the want to pursue a career as a...

What lies beneath our feet at this very moment? How will the earth look 10 million years from now? How does the interior of the earthwork? How does this affect the surface we live on? These are the just some of the questions I contemplate...

The world we live on right now may very well be just one in a series of many worlds God has created. Moses 1:38 states, “And as one earth shall pass away, and the heavens thereof even so shall another come.” This may be shocking...