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92The Greenhouse Effect Explained
By Chef Jeff There is much talk about the greenhouse effect, greenhouse gasses, and global warming/global climate change. I wanted to take a moment to explain as best I can what the greenhouse effect is, and how it has been seen to work on planet...
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89The Cosmology/Climate Connection - How Extraterrestrial Forces Influence The Weather
Powers far greater than humans might be at play with Earth's air/water system.
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88Natural Bridge State Park in Wisconsin: An Arch, a Rockshelter, and Shade-tolerant Vegetation of Medicinal Interest
Natural Bridge State Park in Honey Creek, Wisconsin claims the Midwest's greatest natural arch and bridge. It also houses the region's oldest inhabited rockshelter. Additionally, interpretive signs lead visitors along natively vegetated trails.
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86David Archer's "The Long Thaw": A Summary Review
"The Long Thaw" is a modern classic of science exposition, setting forth the physical basis for how the greenhouse effect and Earth's carbon cycle work. Get the gist with this enhanced content summary review.
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85Eohippus: Facts about The First Horse
Fifty-two years ago the first horse roamed the earth. It had a face like a fox, tail like a donkey, feet like a pig, and the body of a cat. In fact, it was not much larger than a cat.
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86How Safe Would You Be in an Ice Age? Climate Change
How well will you cope if we face an ice age in the next decade?
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84Parfrey's Glen in Wisconsin: a Creek, a Gorge, and a Waterfall and Their Unique Fauna and Flora
Parfrey's Glen is just down the road from Baraboo and Devil's Lake and Natural Bridge State Parks in south-central Wisconsin. It is the state's first Natural Area. It offers visitors beautiful views of a gorge and its creek, waterfall and wildlife.
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84Prehistoric Kitty: A Sabertooth Tiger and His Saber Tooth!
Ten million years ago, the whole Earth was much cooler than it is today. Different creatures walked the earth like the woolly mammoth, giant sloth, and the dire wolf. Among them was the saber-tooth cat, often thought of as a saber-tooth tiger which...
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83Global Warning Environmental Disaster?
It's all over the news - this is the hottest summer ever, in the decade, in the last 5 years. So is the world getting warmer and what, if anything can we do about it. Global Warning has become a Religion not...
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82The Tipping Point - a Global Climate Change Warming Point of No Return
While arguments continue to rage about the why's, who's and how's of climate change and global warming, there is something far more sinister happening to our climate that has been stuck on the back burner for the most part : It's called the Tipping...
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