Monthly Archives: June 2008

Disappearing Forests in Papua New Guinea

Posted on June 4, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

A new satellite analysis of logging in Papua New Guinea shows that the country has been losing about 1,400 square miles of rain forest, or about 1.4 percent of its total forest cover, each year. At that pace, by 2021 … Continue reading →

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Plate Tectonic , Plate Boundaries and Mid Oceanic Ridge

Posted on June 3, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

Plate tectonics is a theory dealing with the dynamics of the Earth’s outer shell, the lithosphere. Resting on a broad synthesis of geologic and geophysical data, it dominates current thinking in the Earth sciences. According to the theory, the lithosphere … Continue reading →

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History of Ozone Hole

Posted on June 3, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

The Beginning … Dramatic loss of ozone in the lower stratosphere over Antarctica was first noticed in the 1970s by a research group from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) who were monitoring the atmosphere above Antarctica from a research station … Continue reading →

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