World's Smallest Mammal

On the end of other spectrum, there are plenty of teeny-tiny organisms on Earth that are not discovered yet, all the way down to single-cell life. But let us focus on something that is little more cuddly: the Kitti's hog-nosed bat. This vulnerable species is found in the southeast Asia is only about 1 inch (29-33 millimeters) long weighing 0.071 ounces (2 grams), putting it in the running with Etruscan shrews, which are lighter but longer, for the world's smallest mammal.

Aurora Borealis

Auroras occur when charged particles from the sun are funneled toward Earth by the planet's magnetic field and collide with the upper atmosphere near the poles. They are more active when the sun's activity peaks during its 11-year solar weather cycle.

The southern lights, also called aurora australis, are seen less often than aurora borealis, the northern lights, because few people brave Antarctica's dark, freezing winters. Shown here, a 2008 image taken from Antarctica of the dazzling sky lights. 

Largest Earthquake

As of 2011, the largest earthquake to shake the United States was a magnitude-9.2 temblor that struck Prince William Sound, Alaska, on Good Friday, March 28, 1964. (Photos shows the Four Seasons Apartments in Anchorage, a six-story lift-slab reinforced concrete building, which cracked to the ground during the quake.) And the world's largest earthquake was a magnitude 9.5 in Chile on May 22, 1960, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

Our Moon Quakes!

Moonquakes, also known as "earthquakes" on the moon, do occur, though they are less common and less intense than the one who shakes Earth. According to USGS scientists, moonquakes seem to be related to tidal stresses associated with the varying distance between Earth and moon. Moonquakes also tend to occur at great depths, about midway between the lunar surface and its center.

It was Recycled !

The ground you're walking on is recycled. Earth's rock cycle transforms igneous rocks to sedimentary rocks to metamorphic rocks and then back again. The cycle is not a perfect circle, but the basic works like this: Magma from deep in the Earth emerges and hardens into rock (that's the igneous part). Tectonic processes uplift that rock to the surface, where erosion shaves bits off. These tiny fragments gets deposited and buried, and the pressure from above compacts them into sedimentary rocks such as sandstone. If sedimentary rocks get buried even deeper, they "cook" into metamorphic rocks under lots of pressure and heat. Along the way, sedimentary rocks can be re-eroded or metamorphic rocks re-uplifted. But if metamorphic rocks get caught in a subduction zone where one piece of crust is pushing under another, they may find themselves transformed back into magma.

It is OLD !

The researchers calculate the age of the Earth by dating both the oldest rocks on the planet and meteorites that have been discovered on Earth (meteorites and Earth formed at the same time, when the solar system was forming). They say that the Earth is about 4.54 billion years old.

On The Move!

You can feel like you are still standing, but you were actually moving — fast. It depends on where you are on the globe, you could be spinning through space at over 1,000 miles an hour. People on the part of equator move the fastest, while the one whi is standing on the North or South pole would be perfectly still. (Imagine a basketball spinning on your finger. A random point on the ball's equator has farther to go in a single spin as a point near your finger. Thus, the point on the equator is moving faster.)

Did You Know ?

Squirrels behave kindly and would adopt orphans if they notice that a relatives would not come back to them.

Did You Know ?

In the Wall-E movie, sounds of insects were made by locking handcuffs. The Cockroach chirps were send up raccoon sounds, and the wind sounds are from Niagara Falls. The sounds of EVE's laser blasts are partly created by tapping some slinky springs.

Did You Know ?

Adult Luna Moths develops without a mouth, their only purpose of living in this world is to mate with their 7-day lifespan. After which they die of starvation.

Squashed Sphere

Our Earth not a perfect sphere. As Earth spins, gravity points toward the center of our planet (assuming for explanation's sake that Earth is a perfect sphere), and a centrifugal force pushes outward. Since this gravity-opposing force acts perpendicular to the axis of the Earth, and Earth's axis is tilted, centrifugal force at the equator is not exactly opposed to gravity. This imbalance adds up at the equator, where gravity pushes extra masses of water and earth into a bulge, or "spare tire" around our planet.

Facts About Earth

As well known and well traveled as our planet is, there are still new things being discovered every day. In fact, most of our oceans have not even been explored which is why when new depths are located; often come with hundreds of new species. Rain forests offer new animals and plants as often we can explore them. Our Earth is constantly changing, shifting, and exposing secrets for humans to marvel at. It may took many years and many great minds to solve those problem of getting through Earth’s atmosphere into this wide expanse of space beyond. Here are some amazing facts about our home that you may not be aware of.


10. The Atmosphere
Many layers of the atmosphere coat our planet including the: mesosphere, ionosphere, exosphere, and thermosphere, but it is the troposphere, closest to the planet itself, that supports our lives and is, in fact, the thinnest at only about 10 miles high.
9. Deserts
Believe it or not, most of the Earth’s deserts are not totally composed entirely of sand. Much, about 85% of it, are rocks and gravel. The largest, is the Sahara Desert, fills about 1/3 of Africa which would nearly fill the continental United States.
8. The Big Blue Marble
The Earth is, in fact, not really round. It's called an oblate spheroid meaning it is slightly flattened on the top and to the bottom poles.
7. Salty Oceans
If you could evaporate all the water out on all of the oceans and spread the resulting salt all over the land on Earth, you would have a five hundred-foot layer coating everything.
6. Lakes and Seas
The largest inland sea is the Caspian Sea which is on the border of Iran and Russia.
5. Mountains
The Andes Mountain range in South America is 4,525 miles long and ranks, it is te world's longest mountain. Second Longest: The Rockies; Third: Himalayas; Fourth: The Great Dividing Range in Australia; Fifth: Trans-Antarctic Mountains. For every 980 feet you climb up a mountain, the temperature drops 3-1/2 degrees.
4. Deep Water
The deepest lake in the world is in the former USSR and it is Lake Baikal. It has the length of 400 miles, a width of roughly 30, but its depth is just over a mile is 5,371 feet down. It is deep enough, so is speculated, that all five of the next largest lakes: The Great Lakes could be emptied into it.
3. Shaky Ground
Earthquakes can be catastrophically destructive and many year are deadly. However, the Earth releases about 1 million a year, almost all are never even registered.
2. Hot, Hot, Hot
Most people believe that Death Valley, California, U.S.A. as the hottest place on Earth. Well, occasionally it is, but the hottest recorded temperature was from Azizia in Libya recording a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922. In Death Valley, it got up to 134 Fahrenheit on July 10, 1913.
1. Dust in the Wind
Experts from the USGS claim that roughly 1,000 tons of space debris rains down on Earth every year.

The Elegant Earth!

Alien worlds may be all the rage, with their mystique and promise, but the orb we call home, planet Earth, has all the makings for a jaw-dropping blockbuster movie: from the drama of explosive volcanoes, past meteor crashes and catastrophic collisions between rocky plates to the seeming fantasy of the ocean's deep abysses swirling with odd life and tales of the coldest, hottest, deepest, highest and all-out extreme spots. So try to stay grounded as you take a journey through some amazing facts about Earth.

Deadliest Effects of Global Warming

1. Spread of disease

2. Warmer waters and more hurricanes

3. Intensity of droughts and heat waves

4. Economic consequences

5. Polar ice caps melts

6. More floods

7. Fires and wildfires

8. Destructive storms

9. Death by smog

10. Desertification

11. Tsunamis

12. Cold Waves

13. Increased volcanic activity

14. More dangerous thunderstorms

15. Migration, conflict and wars

16. More outbreaks of deadly diseases

17. Loss of biodiversity and animal extinction

18. Death of ocean life

19. Animal attacks

20. Diminished food and water supplies

How Can You Help from Saving the Earth ?

1.­ Paying attention to how you use water. Little things can make some big difference. Every time you turn off the water while you are brushing your teeth, you are doing something good. When your toilet is leaky, you might be wasting 200 gallons of water per day. Drink tap water instead of drinking bottled water, so you are not wasting all that packaging as well. Wash your clothes in cold water if you can.

2. Leave your car at home. If you can stay in  your house two days a week, you will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by average of 1,590 pounds per year. Combine your errands -- hit the post office, grocery store and shoe repair place in one trip. It can save you gas and time.

3. Walk or use your bike to work, school and anywhere you want to go. You can reduce greenhouse gases and bur some calories and improving your health at the same time. If you can't walk or bike, use mass transit or carpool. Every car not on the road makes a difference.

4. By recycling, you can help reduce pollution by putting that soda can in a different bin. If you're trying to choose between two products, pick one with the least packaging. If an office building of 7,000 workers recycled all of its office paper waste for a year, it would be the equivalent of taking almost 400 cars off the road.

5. Compost. Can you think how much trash you make every year? Reducing the amount of solid waste that you produce in a year means taking up less space in landfills, so your tax dollars can work somewhere else. Plus, compost makes a great natural fertilizer. Composting is easier than you think.