Category Archives: earth

Does green infrastructure represent a sound investment opportunity?

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Originally posted on Geography Directions:
By Steve Cinderby, University of York, UK, and Sue Bagwell, London Metropolitan University, UK.  Globally our societies are becoming increasingly urbanised with the United Nations (UN) reporting that already the majority of people live in…

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In the face of disaster, active citizens are already filling the governance gap; let’s upscale this now!

Originally posted on ramblinginthecity:
Owing to an attempted shift to more academic writing and partly in reaction to the few friends who haven’t been too thrilled with my use of this platform to rant, my posts over the past year…

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Earth’s ICE RECORDS 

Originally posted on Free Thoughts by Ranjit Singh:
Earth’s ICE RECORDSIce cores preserve climate history of million of years. Most of the ice cores are taken from the ice deposited in Antarctica and Greenland. Some interesting facts… Ice cores have…

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Asthenosphere

Asthenosphere is zone of Earth’s mantle (upper part of the mantle)lying beneath the lithosphere and believed to be much hotter and more fluid than the lithosphere. The asthenosphere extends from about 100 km to about 700 km  below Earth’s surface. It was first named … Continue reading

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