Earth Sciences
The basic branches of Earth Science include sciences like oceanography, geology, astronomy and meteorology. The study of the lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the Earth has been made easier thanks to the World Wide Web. The sites that computer users can access provide resources on one or more areas of Earth, which includes geology, geophysics, hydrology, astronomy, climatology, meteorology, oceanography, and geomorphology. Some earth science sites focus on such subjects as climate and global change conditions like erosion, pollution, and deforestation. Additional online resources include maps, texts, journals, study guides for students, educational aids for teachers, and data on pertinent events and government agencies. This section features various online resources on the earth sciences.
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| Quaking With Excitement Dan Glaister measures the temperature of expectancy rising amongst geologists over the San Andreas fault. |
Fossils: A Teaching Tool That Promotes Enthusiastic Learning Use fossils as a teaching tool to promote enthusiastic classroom learning in earth science…and math, reading, and writing.... |
| Ancient Legends Give an Early Warning of Modern Disasters The new science of geomythology is being harnessed by researchers who believe folklore can save lives. |
Report Dashes Hopes for Early Warning System Despite decades of intense research, predicting when earthquakes are likely to strike is a lost cause, according to a... |
| Disaster As Climate Probe Crashes A satellite designed by British scientists to measure how fast Earth's polar ice caps are melting crashed shortly after its... |
US Accepts Earth is Warming in Bid to Avert Clash Top G8 officials in late-night negotiations. |
| What is a Tsunami? Tsunami is a sea wave of local or distant origin that is an outcome from large-scale seafloor displacements related with... |
All About Tsunamis After a bout of what shook the world over, tsunami is perhaps the most glaring example of what is perhaps understood as the... |
| Earthquakes and Tsunamis An earthquake in the fjord-like Lituya Bay, Alaska, on July 9, 1958, generated a tsunami wave 524 meters (1719 feet) high,... |
Climate Fear As Carbon Levels Soar Scientists bewildered by sharp rise of CO2 in atmosphere for second year running. An unexplained and unprecedented rise in... |
| Could Archimedes have lifted the earth? Archimedes, the great mathematician, made a claim to King Hiero of Syracuse that he could move the earth if given a place... |
Out of this world: earth seen from Mars It's a unique view of our world: a pale blue disc, half in shadow, with the moon seemingly just a short distance away. The... |
| Sun's Rays to Roast Earth As Poles Flip Earth's magnetic field - the force that protects us from deadly radiation bursts from outer space - is weakening... |
Earthquakes Did the earth move? Mark Oliver looks at the recent British earthquakes, and discovers that giant turtles were once blamed... |
| Earth 'will Expire By 2050' Our planet is running out of room and resources. Modern man has plundered so much, a damning report claims this week, that... | |