Word: earth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Girlfriends Past, $6.8 million; $40.1 million, third week Obsessed, $4.6 million; $62.6 million, fourth week 17 Again, $3.4 million; $58.4 million, fifth week Monsters vs Aliens, $3 million; $190.6 million, eighth week The Soloist, $2.4 million; $27.5 million, fourth week Next Day Air, $2.3 million; $7.6 million, second week Earth, $1.7 million; $29.1 million, fourth week...
...permits would be allocated or how much those permits might cost. Environmentalists wanted the government to auction them, with the proceeds used to lighten ratepayer utility bills inflated by the higher costs of running power plants and to subsidize energy efficiency measures. (See pictures of this fragile earth...
...Once a runaway instability starts, it cannot be stopped until a new stable position is found [for the ice sheet]," writes geophysicist Erik R. Ivins in an editorial accompanying the Science paper. (See pictures of this fragile earth...
...high would we have to pile the sandbags? It depends where you live, since the ocean would rise higher at some points around the Earth than others. Why? Because adding water to the oceans is not like adding it to a lake or a pond or even a bathtub, where the level rises everywhere uniformly. A lake or a pond or a bathtub is not a 6.6 sextillion-ton sphere of rock and dirt spinning through space. The Earth is, and that makes all the difference...
...that would melt into the ocean even in Bamber's updated, less extreme models might be small compared with the overall mass of the Earth, but that redistribution of mass would still cause the planet's gravity field to change slightly, which, in turn, would change the vector of its rotation. Think of the way water sloshes in a bucket, varying by how you swing or carry it. On a vast scale, that's what would happen if the WAIS collapsed, and the direction of the sloshing would hit the U.S. especially hard. Other areas that would take a particularly...