The family hopes the music will attract attention to the need for taking good care of the earth and its seas.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

Astronomers use the observatory to study the positions and movements of the Earth, sun,moon and other objects in space.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

Not until the nineteen fifties did scientists, using radioactive dating, place the age of the Earth at over four billion years.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Plate tectonics is the area of science that explains why the surface of the Earth changes and how those changes cause earthquakes.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

Members of Friends of the Earth Middle East say the Jordan could run dry unless something is done.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

But Friends of the Earth Middle East says that would cost too much and could damage the environment.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

One line is the equator. It is an imaginary line around the widest part of the Earth.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Friends of the Earth has called for suspending further research until rules are made for the technology.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

Friends of the Earth Middle East is an organization of activists from Israel, Jordan and the territories.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Scientists now know,however, that the surface of the Earth is not as permanent as had been thought.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

Also,in Darwin's time, the age of the Earth was estimated only in the millions of years too short a time some said for evolution to work.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

"Forty-two percent of the earth's population live in areas where malaria transmitting mosquitoes exist.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

In the early eighteen hundreds in England, Mary Anning became one of the first women recognized for her discoveries about the ancient history of the Earth.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

"Forty-two percent of the earth's population lives in areas where malaria transmitting mosquitoes exist.

VOA: special.2009.12.22