All about the Earth's natural environment, features, and processes, focusing on landforms, climate, soils, water, and ecosystems.
Disasters, whether it is natural (earthquake, flood, tsunami, drought, epidemics, landslides, or wildfire) or human-triggered (pollution, accidents, and wars), affect human life across several dimensions. Disasters influence human life and…
Long-Term Effects of Hazards and Disasters Disasters are an increasingly phenomena that we all clearly perceive and know that may have a direct impact on the welfare of regions where…
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in April 1986 was caused by a faulty Soviet reactor design andcritical errors made by the plant‘s operators.This incident was directly linked to the…
On December 3, 1984, over 500,000 people in the vicinity of the “Union Carbide India Limited” (a pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India) were exposed to the highly toxic…
Characteristics of a Disaster In order to be able to identify that a situation is a disaster, the following characteristics must be eminent and must seem to resonate with the…
Each mineral has a crystalline structure and almost a definite chemical composition. The properties, which are related directly to the chemical composition of minerals, are isomorphism, polymorphism, and pseudomorphism. Each…
Silicate Mineral Structure The Silicate minerals group is of great importance because they constitute about 90% of the Earth’s crust. They are found in all the common rocks except limestone.…
Physical Properties of Mineral One can readily determine the physical properties of the minerals merely by inspection or simple tests. Because the physical properties are determined in hand specimens, they…
A mineral is a naturally occuring homogenous substance, which has a more or less definite chemical composition and definite atomic structure. The minerals are usually formed by inorganic processes. They…
Solar System Solar System and Planets of the Solar System are of greater importance in science studies. The Earth on which we live, and the only known abode of living…