Hurricanes wreak havoc in various parts of the world. However, it's a curious fact that they very rarely approach the equator ...

Today it is almost midway between the equator and the poles and raised by the Rocky Mountains. However, 661 million years ago was a different matter. Then the area was relatively flat and located ...

Sir William's argument is,* that had the earth solidified several hundred millions of years ago, the flattening at the poles, and the bulging at the equator, would have been much greater than we ...

During an ice age, the polar regions are cold, there are large differences in temperature from the equator to the pole, and large, continental-size glaciers can cover enormous regions of the earth.

By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent shaped like a giant C that straddled the Equator and extended toward the Poles. Almost as ...

For the past four months, we’ve been on standard time. But overnight Saturday, we’ll turn our clocks ahead one hour at 2 a.m.

During the Chandra’s Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChaSTE), the spacecraft took the first measurements of this kind ...

Warm air rising from Earth's surface pushes the air mass away from the equator, and releases its moisture as precipitation as it travels pole-ward (Figure 1). If the Earth did not spin on its axis ...

the Antarctic Circle (the South Pole) the Tropic of Cancer the Tropic of Capricorn and the Equator. I’ve been asked to deliver this parcel to my cousin but he lives on an island and doesn’t ...