{"id":6698,"date":"2025-06-07T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=6698"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:10:49","slug":"opinion-our-active-planet-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/opinion-our-active-planet-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Our active planet, part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6698\" class=\"elementor elementor-6698\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-573a0aea e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"573a0aea\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-35b8afad elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"35b8afad\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Earth is not static. It is constantly changing due to powerful forces like tectonic plate movement, erosion, volcanic eruption, and climate cycles.<\/p><p>Our planet is hurtling through space at more than 60,000 miles per hour, so it should come as no surprise that the geological features of the earth should be affected by things like wind, changing weather patterns, and \u2014 of course \u2014 gravity. As we plough through space, we encounter all kinds of space dust that rains down on us. At night, we can see some of it as meteor showers.<\/p><p>According to the CBS-TV\u2019s \u201cThe Nature of Things,\u201d Earth gets about 60 tons heavier every day because so much dust is accumulated in a single rotation of the globe.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth is not static. It is constantly changing due to powerful forces like tectonic plate movement, erosion, volcanic eruption, and climate cycles. Our planet is hurtling through space at more than 60,000 miles per hour, so it should come as no surprise that the geological features of the earth should be affected by things like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-6698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-environment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}