If you’ve taught plate tectonics at the middle school level, you’re probably quite familiar with the supercontinent Pangaea. But did you know that Pangaea was not the only supercontinent in earth’s history – just the last to date? Millions of years before Pangaea, another supercontinent known as Rodinia united all of earth’s landmass in an […]
Archive for July, 2008
Granite Helps Scientists Piece Together Rodinia
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 12:35 pm
Written by: Brittany Wall
Coral Reefs Faced With Extinction?
Friday, July 18th, 2008 4:04 pm
Written by: Kimberly Lightle
A third of reef-building corals around the world are threatened with extinction, according to the first-ever comprehensive global assessment to determine their conservation status. Corals produce reefs in shallow tropical and sub-tropical seas and have been shown to be highly sensitive to changes in their environment. The study findings were published July 11, 2008 by […]
Posted in Topics: Conservation, Coral Reefs, Ecology, Environment, Life Science, Marine Biology, Oceans
Posted in Topics: Biodiversity, Earth Science, Education, Evolution
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