http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/channeled-scablands/
In the middle of Eastern Washington, Dry falls, a desert that barely gets any rain each year, in what geologists call the Columbia Plateau. Spread over 16,000 square miles are hundreds of other dry waterfalls, canyons without rivers that might have carved them, mounds of gravel as tall as skyscrapers, deep holes in the bedrock that would swallow entire city blocks, and countless oddly placed boulders. It seems as though the flood and floodwater is what caused the shape of it. Research indicates that 80 or more floods damaged it near the end of the last ice age.
0 Comments
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/california-desert-anza-borrego-super-bloom/
The Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in southeastern California is experiencing a "super bloom." A super bloom is when the spring bloom of wildflowers, starts growing past the normal bloom. The Anza-Borego Desert has not seen a bloom like this since around 2005. The major rain we had this last fall and winter is what helped this super bloom occur. The cold winter helped lock the moisture from the rain into the ground. Since the park saw alone 7 inches of rain this last season.
The super bloom that has occurred at the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is absolutely beautiful. When you think of a desert, the first thing to come to mind isn't usually wildflowers blooming everywhere, so to see the two together is a view I'd love to go visit.
http://www.livescience.com/57936-climate-change-extreme-weather-health.html
Although many believe climate change is not real, it is evident that it is with the extreme weather events that have occurred or are to occur. Experts in climate change predict that extreme weather events will increase in either frequency or severity, and these events are a very serious public health burden. The climate change can affect our health. For example, extreme heat can increase the risk of death from heart disease, respiratory diseases, kidney diseases and other illnesses.
Our world needs to take climate change more seriously. Although it may not directly affect our generation, we need to consider how it will affect the future generations. |
savannahArchives
April 2017
Categories |