The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) prediction is correct, and we will be able see a super blue blood moon in the night skies today on January 31st, 2018. In this event the lunar eclipse with a reddish moon, the super moon (a closer and larger moon) and the blue moon (two full moons […]
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No two ecosystems in locations around Earth can be said to have the exact assortment of species forming habitats in them. However, terrestrial ecosystems and biological communities of organisms can be classified into categories on the basis of climatic features and the predominant plant forms appearing in these locations. On the basis of these categories, […]
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Radar measurements of subterranean Antarctica have revealed that a massive network of rivers, streams and lakes exist beneath the ice sheet in Antarctica. These regions are host to a number of Antarctic aquatic environments beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. Subglacial Lakes in Antarctica The radar measurements used include both surface and airborne radar measurements that […]
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Covering a total area of about 10,000 sq km, Lake Vostok in Antarctica is one of the largest sub-glacial lakes in the world. Lake Vostok in Antarctica is buried under greater than about 3.7 km of ice and is located near the Vostok research station run by Russia. Lake Vostok in Antarctica was once a […]
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Plate tectonics and the mantle You may feel that the grounds you play football on every evening is unchanging as ever. However, nothing can be further from the truth. The earth’s crust too undergoes a cycle of birth and death that have changed the way our planet looks over millions of years. In 2011, scientists […]
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In what is being called the 2017 Great American Eclipse, about all of North America was swathed in different shades of darkness on August 21, 2017 in the event of a total solar eclipse (Fig 1). The total solar eclipse was viewed by people in North America, and a partial eclipse was visible to people in […]
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The most saline locations on Earth contain salt, or sodium chloride, and also other minerals and contain these in much greater quantities than the ocean. The following are the locations in the world with the greatest concentration of salt, with salinity levels that in many cases are inimical for life to survive in these places. […]
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A pink rainbow was observed from parts of Western England on August 7, 2017 which is a rare occurrence. Pink rainbows occur as optical effects depending on how we view phenomena and is caused by the refraction of sunlight from a reddish evening sun by droplets of water in the Earth’s atmosphere. In the evening the […]
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World wind types Ascertaining wind types is important to understand disaster’s. On May 30, 2017, a severe cyclonic storm ‘Mora’ crossed the Bangladesh coast in the forenoon, with a peak surface wind speed of 130 kmph (IMD, 2017). The cyclone claimed 9 lives in Bangladesh along with massive damage to property. Mizoram reported heavy rainfall accompanied […]
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Have you ever visited the Son Doong Cave in the forests of Vietnam. It is among the largest and most spectacular limestone caverns in the world, measuring 5.5 miles in length, with some of its largest caverns high enough to house a 40 storey building. Inside the cave is a pristine jungle 600 feet below […]
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