ONCE UPON A TIME ALL HUMANS HAD DARK SKIN Climate Scientist Explains Global Variables to Evolving Skin Color Since the mid-18th century, skin color has been the single most important physical trait used to define human groups, including variously named varieties, races, subspecies, and species. Humans are a colorful species, yet all modern humans share a common ancestor who lived around […]
Read MoreAN OPEN & SHUT CASE FOR THE LARGEST ARCTIC OZONE HOLE EVER FOUND? Climate Scientist Shares Insight & Science Behind the Recent Phenomenon & What It Means for the Future Early this spring, scientists discovered a massive hole in the ozone layer over the North Pole. The largest ever detected in history, the hole covered an area three times the […]
Read MoreLASTING EFFECTS OF THE 2018 KILAUEA VOLCANO DISASTER Scientist Shares How this Eruption Is Affecting the Climate Beginning on May 3, black, basaltic lava poured out of the East Rift of Kilauea volcano for three months, destroying 700 homes, forcing 2,000 people to evacuate, and covering nearly 14 square miles of land at a […]
Read MoreHAWAIIAN LAVA FLOWS ARE BECOMING EXTENSIVE ENOUGH TO CAUSE SUBSTANTIAL GLOBAL WARMING Volcanologist Shares Insight on the Ongoing Lava Flows & Their Likely Effect on Global Climate Since May third, basaltic lava flows have been pouring out of the East Rift of Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano, destroying more than 500 homes and covering more than 6,000 acres of […]
Read MoreFUEGO! Volcanologist Shares Insight on Fuego’s Eruption & Overall Climate Risks At least 25 people are dead and countless injured after Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupted on Sunday. The blast spewed a river of red hot lava and gushed thick clouds of smoke nearly six miles into the air, affecting 1.7 million people. When released into the atmosphere, this […]
Read MoreWHEN RISK BECOMES REALITY ON THE BIG ISLAND Scientist Shares Insight on Kilauea’s Eruption & Overall Climate Risks If you haven’t seen the latest weather phenomenon that is the eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, you must be sleeping under a rock. (No pun intended). At 5 pm on Thursday, May 3, fissures opened in the […]
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