The blue whale is known as the largest living marine mammal in the world. And also considered as even larger than most dinosaurs. A fully grown blue whale measure is about 100 ft. long and weigh more than 180 tons.Blue whales usually travel on their two primary seasons known as feeding season and mating season.During their feeding season (summer) they can be seen in their migration towards areas such as the Farallon Islands, Channel Islands and Monterey Bay. While during mating season (winter) they migrate towards the warmer tropical parts of the world such as the Gulf of Mexico and ... Read More

Landslides are generally mass movement of soil or rocks along the slopes of mountains. They are quite common in hilly regions due to less stability of rocks, solid, debris etc. Since, Himalayas are the young fold mountains or V-shaped valley, caused by the collision of Indo-Australian plate with the Eurasian plate, also are highly prone to landslides which leads heavy loss of both life & property.There are some natural as well as anthropogenic causes behind landslides. Let’s check out a few of them:Natural CausesEarthquakes: Earthquakes are often in Himalaya region which causes loosening of soils that further leads to landslides.Rainfall: ... Read More

All over the world, the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is followed as the standard time. The Greenwich Meridian which is the Prime Meridian or Longitude Zero degrees marks the starting point of every Time Zone of the time zone map.The clock time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, is followed as the Greenwich Mean Time or GMT all over the world. Greenwich which is considered as the Prime Meridian has the Sun at its highest point at 1200 noon, exactly above the Greenwich.There are 25 world time zones. If you consider GMT as 0, then each one calculated at ... Read More

Greenland is actually a huge island on the North American plate in the pink color. It’s surely got a load of ice on it, much of which shapes as a part of the Arctic polar ice cap, but there is a land below Greenland. Tagging Greenland is actually an ice sheet implicit that it’s drifting on water as an unarranged part of the much larger.Scientists call those islands continents which has a completely different tectonic plate. The continental outer layer also has to be firm. Unlikeness of the flora and fauna of the location is also taken into deliberation while ... Read More

By default, a hole will be dug downwards. It does not matter whether you are in the north pole or south pole or anywhere on the earth geographically, you dig a hole only downwards. So you will be going down.

Mount Everest, straddling the borders between Nepal and Tibet, is an extremely fascinating yet unfriendly place, “Seemingly insurmountable" is the phrase that Ann Mallory used to describe when she had a view of its visage that confronted her on a hot afternoon in June.Why Insurmountable?Temperatures at the top of this peak are around 36 degrees C below zero in the winter and can even go lower than that.Temperatures only rise to approximately 18 below zero degrees during the hottest of the summer.Monsoon storms make the conditions worse and nearly the worst. They have entrapped many climbers too.The peak becomes slippery ... Read More

Antarctic and Arctic ocean, both are cold because they do not get any direct sunlightGeographical DetailsThe Antarctic is actually a land surrounded by ocean. The average elevation of Antarctica is about 7, 500 feet, which is nearly 2 kilometers 300 meters which means the highest continent on the earth is Antarctica.Why So South Pole Colder?The South Pole is much colder than the North Pole, The reason is that it sits on top of a very thick ice sheet, then again it itself sits on a continent. Not only this, the sun rises and sets only once a year there. So, ... Read More

A precious metal is a rare naturally occurring metal of high economic value. Earlier precious metals were used as a form of currency, but now they are regarded as investment options and also used for industrial purposes.Characteristics of Precious MetalThe precious metals are less chemically reactive than the other elements, thus these are also called noble metals.They are ductile that means they can be easily converted into wires.There are highly lustrous, so possess brilliant shine.Most Precious Metal In IndiaPlatinum is the most precious metal and it comes in the category of heavy metals with a large atomic number, and hence ... Read More

Researchers from the Centre for Water Research at The University of Western Australia analyzed rainfall and land clearing data. They found that widespread deforestation was a major cause of the decline in rainfall pattern. This is not a case only in Australia, the same happens in India and other countries and continents too.Relation Between Rainfall and ForestsMore trees mean more rainfall. This is because of the large-scale conversion of tropical rainforest to pasture-land, which creates a warmer and a much drier climate. This is indirectly the global warming and greenhouse effect that we all know.MechanismThe mechanism is the same that ... Read More

The Operation Desert Storm took place in January 1991. American President George H.W.Bush has started what is called the "Operation Desert Storm", the military operation to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait. The historic ground invasion was made in February and coalition forces led by the US has swiftly driven away Iraq from Kuwait within 100 hours.