Hurricanes hit parts of the U.S. every year. The damage can be massive and can reach places that were here-to-fore thought of as safe havens from such a disaster. One of those safe havens recently faced the worst destruction in its history owning to flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Helene. That city was Asheville, […]
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Saudi Arabia is often looked at as a vast desert that contains a major religious center and a huge amount of oil. Formerly sold to industrialized countries in crude form, the country has gradually taken over the entire industry by replacing most workers with Saudi nationals. Nowadays the products sold are not only crude oil,
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Global warming is a fact of life today, and it brings with it another nemesis—rising sea levels. This condition is exasperated by the huge amounts of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels for energy. Efforts are being made in many countries throughout the world to reduce the consumption of
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The year 2023 has officially become the hottest year on record, and it is worth taking a look at how the greenhouse effect and the growth of population and fossil fuel consumption in particular has contributed to where we are today with global warming. Origins: The study of climate change dates as far back as
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During the 10th Century, a group of Vikings landed on Greenland and in time developed settlements there. About 400 years later they vanished from the island. No one outside of Greenland even knew that they were gone until 1721 when some missionaries arrived at the sites and found only the ruins of their settlements. Their
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Much of the Western United States has been in the throes of a serious drought that has been carrying on for nearly six years. Las Vegas, Nevada, resides in the middle of the desert, and gets most of its water from Lake Mead and the Colorado River. But Lake Mead’s water supply is shared with
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The hydrogen economy is one of the best kept secrets of today’s climate change movement. There are current uses for hydrogen and numerous future prospects, but it will take some technological improvements to put hydrogen as an energy source into the four corners of the economy. The question then becomes, what is the hydrogen economy,
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Although about 70% of the earth’s surface is covered with water, most of it is unusable in its current state. The Earth’s inhabitants must rely upon about 0.75% of all earth’s water for sustenance. Usable water is eternally recyclable is it goes from seawater to freshwater to irrigation usage to cleansing solvent to sewage removal
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The Great Lakes that border between the U.S. and Canada, are one of the largest freshwater reserves on the earth constituting about twenty percent of the entire world’s supply. This irreplaceable ecosystem holds as much as six quadrillion gallons of freshwater for the northern portion of the Western Hemisphere. They were created by advancing and
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The series of fierce winter storms that froze most of the nation the week of February 15th hit unprepared Texas extremely hard showing a major weakness in its electrical grid. The storms hit many states, and some others had electrical shortages, but only Texas found itself with a near catastrophic grid collapse. How did this
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