Mount St. Helens Shoots Steam, Ash Plume Into Air
Mount St. Helens Shoots Steam, Ash Plume Into Air
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British Schools Must Go Green
Here's one for you: The government says that by 2020 it wants all schools to be "models of energy efficiency and renewable energy" and provide "healthy, local and sustainable food and drink produced or prepared on site". British Schools Must Go Green Carrington Junior School in Buckinghamshire, have a wind turbine at the end of the playing field. School goes green with turbine The level of power generated and used will be displayed on an interactive whiteboard outside the library. A long-range, comprehensive plan like this should help not only lighten the footprint of British schools, but also produce better educated, and healthier students. More (green) power to the people! Woo! via: Treehugger
Pacific states hold tsunami test
More than 30 countries around the Pacific Ocean have tested a system to warn them of approaching tsunamis. Read more here . Here's a handy animation that shows how the Asian Tsunami happened. Click on the picture below!
Tarn (lake) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tarn (lake) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Triad Lake in Glacier Peak Wilderness (click picture for wiki page and image credits) A tarn (or corrie loch) is a mountain lake or pool, formed in a corrie excavated by a glacier. A moraine may form a natural dam below a tarn. (A corrie may be called a cirque.) More images of tarns here. via Google image search This is a page with a picture and a map showing the steep back wall (notice that the contours are very close together). See the definition of a cirque from the Illustrated Glossary of Alpine Glacial Landforms