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Forestry Career: What Do Foresters Do?
Career | Environmental Science Careers

Forestry Career: What Do Foresters Do?

Money doesn’t grow on trees for foresters but it still makes a great career option. You will harvest timber while conserving the environment as a forester.

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What is Meteorology? 15 Branches of Meteorology
Branches of Earth Science | Career

What is Meteorology? 15 Branches of Meteorology

Weather and climate is all around us. It affects our work and play. Big disasters cost money and lives. Here are the branches of meteorology.

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Universe Expansion: The Farthest Galaxy from Earth [Infographic]
Outer Space | Stars, Galaxies and Universe

Universe Expansion: The Farthest Galaxy from Earth [Infographic]

The universe is immeasurable in size. Universe expansion is the theory that galaxies and all matter in space are increasing in distance between each other.

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Theory of Evolution: Charles Darwin and Natural Selection
Evolution and Tree of Life | Life Science

Theory of Evolution: Charles Darwin and Natural Selection

In flesh and blood, you have been genetically fine-tuned as a product of natural selection. Without evolution, complex beings like humans wouldn’t exist.

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How Do Glaciers Form?
Geology | Land Surface

How Do Glaciers Form?

Like a rake scraping the dirt, glaciers leave a lasting impression on the land. They can erode mountains, transport vast amount of rock and reshape the land.

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Coal Formation: How Coal Forms
Geology | Milestone Events

Coal Formation: How Coal Forms

Hydrocarbons, oil and coal formation in general are made from living organisms that have been compacted from intense heat and pressure millions of years ago.

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LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor
Evolution and Tree of Life | Life Science

LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor

All living things originated from a common ancestor called the last universal common ancestor (LUCA). The origin of life existed before LUCA (3.5 – 4.1 bya)

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Sun Fusion: How the Sun Heats Up Earth
Outer Space | Sun

Sun Fusion: How the Sun Heats Up Earth

Fusion reactions power the sun. By fusing hydrogen to helium, the sun releases vast amounts of energy towards Earth. Then, sun fusion reaction heats Earth.

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What is Net Primary Productivity for Earth?
Life Science | Natural Environment

What is Net Primary Productivity for Earth?

The Earth breathes. We gauge Earth net primary productivity by how much carbon dioxide plants absorb from the atmosphere minus how much it respires.

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Planet Formation and the Core Accretion Theory
Outer Space | Properties of Earth

Planet Formation and the Core Accretion Theory

We use the core accretion model to describe planet formation and the creation of our solar system which includes a central star and natural orbiting objects.

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Earth Tilt: 23.5 Degrees Axis
Outer Space | Properties of Earth

Earth Tilt: 23.5 Degrees Axis

Imagine sticking a pencil into the Earth’s poles and twisting your wrist 23.5°. This is the Earth tilt essential in seasonal patterns, climate and life on Earth.

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The Dinosaur Era: When Dinosaurs Dominated
Evolution and Tree of Life | Life Science

The Dinosaur Era: When Dinosaurs Dominated

If you rewind the clock 230 million years back, dinosaurs dominated the land. Not just for a short span of time. But they lived for over 175 million years!

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Mountain Building: How Mountains are Made
Geology | Land Surface

Mountain Building: How Mountains are Made

When convergent plates collide, the lithosphere thrusts upwards. This geologic process of vertical upheaving are orogenies or mountain building events.

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What Happened in the Archean Eon? [4.0 to 2.5 billion years ago]
Geologic Timeline | Geology

What Happened in the Archean Eon? [4.0 to 2.5 billion years ago]

Earth formed a stable climate in the Archean Eon. Because it cooled down from its molten state, Earth was able to support oceans, continents and oxygenation

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Density of Earth: What is the Earth Made Of?
Outer Space | Properties of Earth

Density of Earth: What is the Earth Made Of?

Earth density steadily increases as you go inwards from the crust to core. If you average density throughout the whole planet, it is about 5.513 g/cm^3.

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