Its the hurricane season and many people dont understand how it is formed and why it causes so much damage in certain countries.

Hurricanes are intense low pressure areas that form over warm ocean waters in the summer and early fall. Their source of energy is water vapor which is evaporated from the ocean surface. Water vapor is the "fuel" for the hurricanes because it releases the "latent heat of condensation" when it condenses to form clouds and rain, warming ...

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Lightning is one thing we hate when the rain falls, it is frightening and dangerous. People say God is responsible for lightening and scientist as proven otherwise, so lets go deeper into the causes and ways to protect ourselves from it. Lightning is a massive electrostatic discharge between electrically charged regions within clouds, or between a cloud and the Earth's surface. The charged regions within the atmosphere temporarily equalize themselves through a lightning flash, commonly...
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What is rain? where does it come from? Who created it... these questions are in a number of persons mind. I have done some research on this topic and i plan to add my environmental studies knowledge.

Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then precipitated that is, become heavy enough to fall under gravity. Rain is a major component of the water cycle and is responsible for depositing most of the fresh water on the Earth. It p...

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One of the biggest problems that the world is facing today is environmental pollution, increasing each year and causing great damage to the earth. Environmental pollution consists of five basic types of pollution, namely, air, water, soil, noise and light. Air pollution is by far the most harmful form of pollution in our environment. Air pollution is cause by the injurious smoke emitted by cars, buses, trucks, trains, and factories, namely sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen...
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