May 2010 – Antarctica: the pole apart
The Earth’s poles are poles apart, and the pun is intended. While the North Pole is in an ocean surrounded
The Earth’s poles are poles apart, and the pun is intended. While the North Pole is in an ocean surrounded
We are told by geologists and other scientists that a massive ice sheet, more than a mile thick, covered a
"Ra" is the name ancient Egyptians called their sun god. It represented light, warmth and growth, and while its meaning
When humans began farming some 9,000 or so years ago, they developed a simple technique to separate the nutritious seeds
Robert Louis Stevenson, intrigued by the duality of human nature, wrote a book titled, "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and
Two separate but connected issues, permafrost and methane, have become a focus of study for many climate change researchers recently.
You may be surprised by this fact: Greenhouse gases are necessary for life on Earth as we know it. Please
This year we have experienced weather that even for the North Country is a bit unusual; a few very early
Let’s go behind some of the recent headlines on flooding and major precipitation events that we have read about recently.
We have been talking about carbon dioxide in the last few articles as it is the primary greenhouse gas produced
July 2009 – The carbon dioxide story – cont’d In last month’s Climate Science article (see Press-Republican 6/7/09), several aspects
Every breath you take [remember that song by The Police?] is a brew of many different gases. The one we
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