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Mark McGinley is an Associate Professor in the Honors College and Department of Biological Sciences at Texas Tech University. He has conducted research in the evolutionary, behavioral, and community ecology of animals and plants. Dr. McGinley’s recent scholarly interests focus on educating the general public about scientific (particularly environmental) issues.

Debbie J. Swarthout is […]

Little and Mirrlees noted that from the mid 1970s to 1990s, there had been a rise and decline of project appraisal in development community^[1]. Our view is that natural resource and environmental issues may be critical for making development more sustainable.

As the common name implies, Native Americans utilized this species of grass in a manner analogous to that of rice by peoples of the Old World and their descendants. The name in Spanish is essentially the same: “arroz indio.” It is also known as Indian Millet or Sand-grass, and Latin synonyms are Oryzopsis h., Stipa h., and Eriocoma cuspidata.

Kyanite and its related mineral “cousins,” sillimanite and andalusite, are called polymorphs. This means that they are three distinct minerals, but they all have the same chemical formula, Al₂SiO₅ (aluminum silicate).

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) conducts research and gathers data about the global oceans, atmosphere, space, and sun, and applies this knowledge to science and service that touch the lives of all Americans.

Cloud formation processes
Air masses and frontal transitional zones
Atmosphere layers

Precipitation and fog
Thunderstorm
Temperature

Acidic clouds nourish world’s oceans
Do clouds come from outer […]

Weathering is the breakdown and alteration of rocks and minerals at or near the Earth’s surface into products that are more in equilibrium with the conditions found in this environment.

Moths live in a wide variety of habitats around the world. They usually go unnoticed, except when flying erratically around your porch light, a streetlight, or other source of light during the darkness of night.

Walter Zinn (1907 – 2000) a Canadian physicist who, on December 2, 1942, pulled out the emergency control rod from the reactor at the University of Chicago that released the world’s first self-sustaining nuclear reaction. Zinn reinserted it to terminate the chain reaction after 28 minutes of operation.