Atmosphere and Plants
Plant distribution and health is controlled by properties of the atmosphere such as climate, hurricanes, lightning, and pollution. Plants also play a large role in controlling th...
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EARTH SCIENCE
Was the Timing of the Rise in Earth's Atmospheric Oxygen Triggered by Geological as Opposed to Biological Processes?
Viewpoint: Yes, the timing of the rise in Earth's atmos...
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Atmospheric Composition and Structure
During most of history, Earth's atmosphere was regarded as little more than a mass of air and clouds. Simple observations from the ground yielded little mo...
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Stratosphere and Stratopause
The atmosphere of Earth can be divided into semi-horizontal layers or spheres, based on properties such as temperature variation, gas components, or electrical properties....
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Air Composition
Throughout recorded history, people have realized that air is critical to life. Hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, Greek philosophers suggested that air was one of four basi...
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Atmospheric Composition and Structure
During most of history, the Earth's atmosphere was regarded as little more than a mass of air and clouds. Simple observations from the ground yielded little more ...
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Atmospheric Deposition
Many kinds of particulates and gases are deposited from the atmosphere to the surfaces of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Wet deposition refers to deposition occurring whi...
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Air Science gives students opportunities to discover for themselves that the air all around them is transparent; has weight, pressure and resistance; and is made up of several different gasses, the...
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Pilots of a Chilean commercial jetliner spotted flaming objects falling past their plane as it headed for a landing in New Zealand, airline officials said Wednesday.U.S. experts suggested the objec...
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While most weather forecasters focus on the six or seven miles of earth's atmosphere where clouds drift and storms form, Jonathan Makela's sights are set much higher.Makela, a University of Illinoi...
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Brussels (dpa) - Most of the major car brands sold in Europe last
year have failed to improve fuel efficiency at the rate needed to
meet a key European Union climate target,...
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Washington (dpa) - The Atlantis shuttle rocketed into an
apparently successful re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere Friday,
starting the the critical, heat-generating manoev...
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San Francisco (dpa) - A US federal judge on Monday threw out a
suit by the state of California that sought to hold large automakers
responsible for global warming.
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Geneva (dpa) - Global concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in
the atmosphere reached their highest levels ever recorded in 2006,
according to the latest Greenhouse Gas Bul...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Ultra-high energy cosmic rays --
particles that pack the punch of a rifle shot -- make their way
to Earth from massive black holes in nearby galaxies,
scientists said Thursday,...
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The U.S. military is developing contingency plans to deal with the possibility that a large spy satellite expected to fall to Earth in late February or early March could hit North America.Air Force...
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A new commercial rocket reached space after launching from a Pacific atoll Tuesday but then probably re-entered the Earth's atmosphere after half an orbit because of a problem during the second-sta...
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Two spacewalking astronauts tossed quilt-sized thermal shrouds from the international space station and watched them float away during their third spacewalk in nine days.The two large thermal cover...
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Atmosphere and Plants
Was the Timing of the Rise in Earth's Atmospheric Oxygen Triggered by Geological as Opposed to Biological Processes
Atmospheric Composition and Structure
Air Composition
Atmospheric Deposition
Science Action Labs Air Science
Flaming objects miss jetliner in air
