" Living in Central Texas, the beach is five hours away and the Texas Gulf coastline, while nice, doesn't compare to the shores of the Pacific. Like me, Rhonda cares for her mother, but she does it every day, all year long. Her only break over the past few years since her father ...
“Shark-infested waters” isn’t a term you normally associate with the Irish coastline, yet in late spring and early summer the Irish coast is one of the best places in Europe to see one of the world’s largest sharks. The basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus) isthe largest fish in the ...
Erosion and other natural processes like lightning strikes and prairie fires continue to shape the badlands today. The park is of course named for the U.S. president who first came to the Dakotas in 1883 to hunt bison. #27. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park jo Crebbin // Shutterstock #27. ...
How does gully erosion occur? How does beach erosion change the physical surface of a coastline? How are sedimentary rocks formed through physical processes? How were the Appalachian Mountains formed? How are continental glaciers formed? How do geologists use sediment cores?Explore...
Herbivores, by their nature, damage plants in natural ecosystems and in agricultural systems. And predators, by their nature, do a lot of damage to herbivores, either by eating them, or by harassing them in ways that cause them to change their behavior, or in some cases change their morphol...
Tucked in northern Taiwan lies a two-kilometer stretch of beautiful cliffs right by the wild Pacific Ocean,Long Dong.Long Dong gets its name from its coastline shape, resembling a dragon's body. A premier climbing destination accessible all year round, there's no better place for those who ...
Weird, but rather than converging on a particular number, the perimeter moves toward infinity. Mandelbrot saw this and used this example to explore the concept of fractal dimension, along the way proving that measuring a coastline is an exercise in approximation [source:NOVA]. ...
Erosion and other natural processes like lightning strikes and prairie fires continue to shape the badlands today. The park is of course named for the U.S. president who first came to the Dakotas in 1883 to hunt bison. #27. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park jo Crebbin // Shutterstock #27. ...
If we consider the history of our planet, we can see that the sea level has risen and fallen many times in the past. The cause was mainly natural processes, tectonic movements and climate warming. However, the stakes have never been so high, and the Earth has never been so heavily popul...
In attempt to ape and shape history, art as protest often revolves around the explicitly political gesture: the demonstration, the boycott, the mobilization, amongst others. ‘To focus on the visible coastline of politics and miss the continent that lies beyond,’ in the words of James C. Sco...