Environment & Meteorology
Below are our 16 articles in the environment & meteorology' category:
A tornado is a violent storm, usually with a twisting funnel of wind extending from a cloud down to the ground. The wind in a tornado is usually...
Cooking with the sun (solar cooking) provides free, safe, clean heat energy that preserves nutrients in food.
Cooking with the Sun
On a...
Soil is everywhere – in fields, gardens, woods. Even in pots in houses for house plants. It is what plants need for growth, but what is it actually...
El Niño, or the ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation), is a pattern of weather changes that usually occur around Christmas. El Niño means ‘the little...
Sunlight isn't just white – it’s actually made of a mixture of different colours. As light travels through water or glass, it changes speed, which...
Before watches and clocks were invented, people used the position of the sun in the sky to guess the time of day, but this couldn’t be very accurate....
In Edwardian times, growing plants in glass cases was very popular, especially because it protected delicate plants, such as ferns, from polluted...
Everyone is talking about climate change. As global temperatures rise, this will lead to melting of glaciers and sea ice. If this causes a rise in...
Weather stations include different ways of measuring the weather. Meteorologists (people who study the weather) use weather stations to monitor the...
Soil erosion is the loss of healthy and fertile topsoil through water or wind, leaving behind poorer quality subsoil. Soil erosion can lead to...
Recycling is important because it saves energy and resources and reduces pollution, as well as creating jobs and keeping things out of landfill....
A sunspot is a cooler area on the surface of the sun, which shows up as a patch that is darker than the rest of the sun’s surface. A sunspot...
Clouds are collections of very small drops of water or particles of ice and they form from water vapour in the air.
Types of...
White light is made up of a mixture of different colours (see ‘Making a Rainbow: Breaking Light Into Colour’). Light travels in waves, and...
Sand is a mixture of small grains of rock, ranging in size from 0.0625 mm to 2 mm. Sand is made by erosion and weathering of rocks – seas or rivers...
Warm air is less dense than cold air, and so as air is warmed by the sun it rises (see 'Warm and Cold: Expanding Air' and 'Floating and Sinking:...
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