Alkaline earth metal

Should NASA’s budget be cut? They spend billions of dollars every year and we have not saw a major leap like we did with Apollo. Well, that's not true. NASA has had amazing breakthroughs and some that are still in the works. If anything NASA should be receiving a larger budget so that they can complete their missions on schedule. The main reason why NASA has not had another Apollo is because of the lack of funding. NASA’s budget should not be cut because of how it contributes to the general…

Pollution has been impacting the Earth for multiple years. In Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell travels around the world to some of the world's most polluted places. Blackwell asks if the human race destroying the Earth with all the pollution that we have been creating. In the book Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell travels to Chernobyl, Fort McMurray, Port Arthur, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch , The Amazon Rainforest, Guiyu & Linfen, and the Yamuna River, which are some of the…

Hawaii. Talk about social and economic disruption. I am not taking climate change lightly but rather linking social interaction with economic activity. Really they are all linked, which emphasizes the catastrophic effects of climate change. But the earth is our home because we are social. Disruption of that bond is the root cause of others. For example, consider an extreme case as depicted in Cormac McCarthy’s, “The Road”. Plants and food producing animals were killed off suddenly, and social…

“Maybe it’s a supernatural phenomenon!” Ace encourages from his place across Nami and Vivi. “Aliens could’ve done it!” Luffy chokes on his food. “Mhphh—!” “Don’t do that.” Zoro frowns at Ace as he reached over and pats Luffy’s back. “You’ll get him all excited over nothing.” Ace grins mischievously. “What if she’s an alien herself and she’s come to take over the planet!” Luffy’s arms are going everywhere and he’s babbling nonsense behind all the food in his mouth. Law, who’d been quietly…

Ultimately, the survival of races is dependent on a mother's care. This role isn't to be taken lightly. Leonard Pitts states, "Sometimes, the earth is cruel. That is ultimately the fundamental lesson here..." Mother Nature is the giver of life, but she can also be implausibly damaging as shown by Leonard Pitts in Sometimes, the Earth is Cruel. The Earth is a beautiful wonderland full of miracles that cannot begin to be comprehended by humans. Creatures can soar through the air and survive the…

The term Megafauna means giant animals. The animals that fall in this category generally weigh over 40 kg. For e.g. mammals such as the Diprotodon weighed approximately 2780 kg which is also known as the largest marsupial and Thylacoleo which weighed between 100-1000 kg which is known as the largest meat-eating mammal ever lived. This term is also used to describe the animals that are extinct and use to live millions of years ago. Megafauna in Australia consisted mammals such as the large…

Why do you think global climate change has become such a misunderstood concept in the U.S., and so politically charged (as compared to other countries)? I believe climate change is so misunderstood because of how the message and facts are spread in our country. You will hear from two different sides that either global warming is something we need to be extremely concerned about or that it is a myth and quite frankly doesn’t exist. We have the media to blame for this. The media, like for most…

This thesis investigated general and relative effects of snowfall on freeway crashes during winter periods in the State of Michigan. Two principal Negative Binomial regression models were established to assess these effects. Explanatory variables for Model 1 included AADT, segment length, horizontal curvature, and snowfall. Explanatory variables for Model 2 included all three initial variables from Model 1 and three categorical snowfall intervals based on its quartile distribution. Crash…

Seismologist with the United States Geological Survey are usually the first to arrive in volcanic areas, to predict volcanoes eruptions and to alert people so they can get evacuated safely. One problem with the predictions is that the size and direction can’t be predicted. With the new technology and equipment, it's becoming easier to predict volcano eruptions correctly. In 1991 Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted causing many tribes to evacuate their homes. Researchers from the…

What is happening? For the past few centuries, the Great Barrier Reef has been greatly impacted by the climate change. The changes of climate to extreme warm conditions have led to the increase of ocean temperature and ocean acidifications. Since coral reefs are naturally sensitive to warm and acidic waters, the climate change thus poses a threat to its health and longevity. Additionally, in recent news, experts have asserted that climate change is the ultimate reason behind this year’s March…