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How to beat the heat (and cold) by digging down: Geothermal energy 101
Recently, we have come across pictures on social media of melted tram track sealants in Germany, along with hundreds of thousands of people dying from…
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The invisible rivers of air and water that regulate Earth's temperature, and the Super El Niño headed our way
The rain or sunshine outside your window may have been set in motion months ago by winds high above and by distant ocean patterns hidden from view.
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A4: How the birth of the Himalayas slowly pushed Earth into the Ice Age we are still in
Right now, as you read this, Earth is in the middle of an ice age.
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A3: Arctic and Antarctic polar ice sheets are natural photo albums of the past atmosphere
We take photos almost every time we go on a trip, on special occasions like birthdays, anniversaries and what not.
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A2: A time when Oxygen nearly killed most life on Earth and triggered the first Ice Age..
Oxygen is one of the key substances that keeps majority of life on Earth alive, but can you imagine how it would've been like when it was once a poison…
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A1: A changing Atmosphere: How ancient microbes 'unintentionally engineered' Global Warming
The very thick and invisible blanket of air surrounding our planet that is pouring life into almost all of the visible life (yes, there are trillions of…
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E5: The beginning of life on Earth
Giraffes, dinosaurs, sharks and whales, to name a few, are organisms that roam or once roamed the very same lands we are on and make us look very tiny.
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E4: Earth's crust is a bunch of broken pieces constantly moving around
Did you know that Iceland is the one of the youngest landmasses (not as a country, but literally the land) on Earth and is just 16 - 18 million years…
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E3: A Magnet that saves us all (and causes Auroras)!
We are surrounded by magnets in our daily lives- from the ones in our earphones or speakers, in fans, blenders, washing machines, the black stripe on…
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E2: Forging of the Pale Blue Dot called Earth
As the universe was doing its thing, constantly creating new stars and the dying ones making new elements that eventually may or may not lead into new…
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E1: How it all started- From atoms to planets
Have you ever looked at the night sky and wondered about the origins of everything?
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