Saving Earth

Here is the list of 10 worst nuclear accidents in history.
windscale Fire, October 10, 1957
The accident occurred when the graphite core of a British nuclear reactor caught fire. The fire resulted in a release of a significant amount of radioactive contamination. It was estimated that the incident caused an increase in thyroid cancer cases.No [...]

Geologists have confirmed that the African continent is being torn in two, forming a new ocean. An international collaboration has shown that a 35 mile long rift in the Afar region of the Ethiopian desert, which opened in 2005, is likely to be the beginning of a new sea.
The recent study, published in the journal [...]

A rise of at least two meters in the world’s sea levels is now almost unstoppable, experts told a climate conference at Oxford University on Tuesday.
“The crux of the sea level issue is that it starts very slowly but once it gets going it is practically unstoppable,” said Stefan Rahmstorf, a scientist at Germany’s [...]

Here is a list of 10 major oil spills in history that caused severe oil pollution and irreparable damage to the ecosystem.
1. Amoco Cadiz – The Amoco Cadiz ran aground on Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, France on March 16, 1978 due to stormy weather. Approximately 200 miles of the coastline [...]

The surface of the Earth rotates at just over 1000 miles per hour.
The Earth is traveling through space at 66700 miles per hour.
The Taiga or Boreal forest circles the entire northern land mass of the world. It contains almost 1/3 of the worlds trees. The trees are mostly coniferous trees but there are some broad [...]