As heat makes its way through the atmosphere instead of returning to Earth, it is absorbed by greenhouse gas molecules when it winds back to the planet’s surface. Certain gases, known as greenhouse gases, let … Read more
The Mariana Trench is a deep point in the ocean and one of the largest crescent-shaped trenches on the surface of the Earth. It contains the only known ventilation point where liquid sulfur and carbon … Read more
The alveoli are balloons – like air sacs that hang at the distal end of the bronchial tree. However, they are most commonly used to describe the smallest of all air sacs in the lungs … Read more
It is the increasing amount of carbon dioxide in the ocean that is acidifying the oceans. As a result, since the Industrial Revolution (around 1750), the oceans have absorbed large amounts of this carbon dioxide, … Read more