Geography
The Beautiful Splendour of our Living Planet
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Investigating The KNOWNs
How did Things became what we know of them now. It might be somewhat silly to ask a Question as that, but it is an important one notwithstanding. For example, in the case of the Sand, which is a modern English word; we might decide to come to the conclusion that it is a result…
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Throwback on Pompeii
Through time, Ancient civilizations have been claimed by a variety of natural ocurrences such as Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Desert Sandstorms. Even a couple might have been buried under water, such as the famed coastal city of Atlantis. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D.79 the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were completely covered by ash, stones, and…
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The Oldest Body of Seawater
This goes back to as far as 35 million years ago; when a great chunk of Rock or it must have been Ice, slammed into what’s now the mouth of the bay, off Cape Charles, Virginia, hollowing out a 56-mile-wide (90- kilometer-wide) hole in the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean. But then we weren’t…
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Nature’s Unique Workaholic
Last week, I was watching a National Geographic Documentary titled Wild Japan; Hidden Secrets. A particular creature intrigued me. The Mudskipper is one of those unfortunate creatures caught in between the extremes Life can provide. It is basically a Fish; but breathes through its skin; and walks rather than swim with its Fins. On the…
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Mount Pinatubo; the Eruption.
This event was among the very quite few of its kind, that affected the Globe on a tremendous scale. In June 1991, after 600 years of dormancy, mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted. The summit of the 1460-m volcano erupted. * 15-20 million tons of ash and sulphuric acid mist were blasted into the atmosphere;…
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The Phillipines’ Smoky Mountain.
I encountered this story as an Environmental Concern in one of the many Environmental Science texts I’ve read. How best do we dispose off our Waste? And how bad have we been doing that? Case #1: Manilla City, in the Philippines, generates some 10,000 tons of Trash each day. Half of which goes to a…
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Pinatubo Escape!
I read about Mount Pinatubo’s regal eruption three years ago. I’ll publish a short story of it next time.. But for now, the People in the Truck in this Photo narrowly escaped the Explosion of Mount Pinatubo on the Philippine Island of Luzon in 1991. However, some 800 inhabitants of Luzon did not escape. The…
Eupheus (to Know) 