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Earth Day Facts (Jessica Zaccaria / Getty Images/iStockphoto) A 2015 study estimated that there are roughly 3 trillion trees on earth, give or take a few million. Since there are around 8 billion ...
Earth Day has been around since the '70s. Every year, over a billion people get involved with the initiatives. Here, learn surprising Earth Day facts.
Earth Day fun facts for kids and adults.
Earth is rounded into an ellipsoid with a circumference of about 40,000 km. It is the densest planet in the Solar System. Of the four rocky planets, it is the largest and most massive. Earth is about eight light-minutes away from the Sun and orbits it, taking a year (about 365.25 days) to complete one revolution.
The Hollow Earth is an obsolete concept proposing that the planet Earth is entirely hollow or contains a substantial interior space. Notably suggested by Edmond Halley in the late 17th century, the notion was disproven, first tentatively by Pierre Bouguer in 1740, then definitively by Charles Hutton in his Schiehallion experiment around 1774.
A Perfect Planet is a 2021 five-part earth science series presented by David Attenborough.The first episode premiered on 3 January 2021 on BBC One.Filming took place over four years, across 31 countries, with crew navigating difficulties in extreme temperatures and remote locations.
Earth’s magnetic field was once 30 times weaker than it is today. This change may have played a pivotal role in the blossoming of complex life, new research found. Over 500 million years ago ...
Isolated for millions of years, the weird and wonderful animals marooned here are like nowhere else on Earth. In its jungles a cassowary—one of the most dangerous birds in the world—stands six feet tall. Inland, kangaroos and wombats brave snowstorms and gum tree forests are filled with never-before-seen predators.