Answers to Earth Science Questions

How does the weather affect weaker ocean currents?

On many different occasions, I've noticed that in a thunder storm the lightning can be pastel blue or yellow or...

On Tuesday morning, the BBC website five day forecast predicted that there would be rain. On Tuesday afternoon, the...

If you get an ice cube and put it in a glass of water, when it melts it has exactly the same volume. This is the reason...

We reckon that all the polar ice caps are melting. Assuming that they've all melted and the water levels have all...

I never know which plastics can be recycled and which can't. Also, how is it all recycled? What's the...

My local council has told us to stop putting plastic carrier bags in the recycling bin. The reason allegedly is that...

What happens to syringes and how do they get recycled?

I've heard that there are only two major recycling plants in the UK and the rest is sent abroad in boats. If this...

We're on an island surrounded by water. How come we've got a water shortage?

Why are we encouraged to shred all paperwork but we're not allowed to put shredded paper in the recycling bin?

We've been removing gas and oil through the surface of the Earth for hundreds of years. Would this have any effect...

I've been told that Santa Barbara is the third most dangerous place to live in the United States because it at...

I think I'm right in saying that diamonds are produced by some volcanoes. Why?

How does the Richter Scale work?

Why are there two or three waves in a tsunami instead of one?

There's a rhyme that goes 'Red sky at night, shepherd's delight. Red sky at morning, shepherd's...

Why has there been such a delay in responding to climate change? It was mentioned in my school days 50 or 60 years ago.

What effect have the atomic tests that were carried out in the 1960s had on the environment?

Will man be come extinct like the dinosaurs?

How do they name dinosaurs and the periods of time that relate to dinosaurs?

How can we tell what noises the dinosaurs make?

why it is that you sometimes see two rainbows in the sky?

How far down is it to the centre of the Earth?