Global warming is the observed long-run, up to century, rise in the average temperature of Earth’s climate system and its related effects. Collective of scientific evidences show that the climate system is warming. With global warming and climate change becoming a real issue, it’s important to know how to help […]

Our planet has seen a rise in global temperatures in the last century. Not only is this impacting the weather patterns that we experience, but it is affecting how quickly ice caps melt and how much rainfall gets delivered to certain geographical areas. Climate change effects are being observed in […]

There are many theories regarding why there is lava on the Earth. Scientists believe it is formed from melted rock deep inside the Earth and then rises to the surface. One theory says that magma (molten rock) rises to the top of a volcano when gasses dissolved in it expand […]

The Sun is a huge gas, or plasma, that produces heat and light by nuclear fusion. The Sun’s energy also fuels the Earth’s weather and climate through solar radiation. The Earth’s average surface temperature is about 15 degrees Celsius (59 F or 288 K). As the planet goes in and […]

The Earth’s history is a broad subject and can be treated from many perspectives. The age of the Earth is about 4.54 billion years (with an uncertainty of about ±20 million), making it one of the oldest objects in the universe. During the Eoarchean Era, the first clue of life […]