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IDB America May 2003 Roger Hamilton |
Want power? Plant trees! In the mountains of Honduras, environmental protection and energy generation go hand in hand. |
IDB America May 2003 Molina & Norheim |
Watershed lessons How experience gained from one program is helping to protect watersheds throughout Honduras |
Geotimes June 2003 Neeta Bijoor |
Land use could also affect climate Scientists have traditionally called attention to heat-trapping greenhouse gases as a reason for climate change, commonly known as global warming. A new study adds to evidence that urbanization and other land-use changes may play a comparable role in climate change. |
Geotimes June 2003 Chan et al. |
Geology for the Record Deltas, sandbars, shoreline deposits, and other geological relics contain valuable information about Utah's changing climate over the past thousands of years. But that information could be lost to urban growth and the need for resources unless people understand their geologic value. |
Geotimes June 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker |
Legal victory for mining In Barrick Goldstrike Mines vs. EPA, now being heralded as a victory for the mining industry, the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., ruled in April that mine operators do not have to report trace metals in waste rocks to the EPA. |
Geotimes June 2003 Christina Reed |
A new fire in tiger's eye For more than a century, mineralogists have accepted that the lustrous bands in the tiger's eye gemstone occur because of a process called pseudomorphism. However, when Peter Heaney took a look at the gemstone through an optical microscope, he found that this common assumption was wrong. |
Geotimes June 2003 Sara Pratt |
Amazon's ancient rain forest Paleoclimatologists have often suggested that the Amazon Basin was an arid savanna during the Pleistocene about 2 million years ago. Now, researchers have found that lowland tropical rainforest likely dominated the region at that time, just as it does today. |
Geotimes June 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker |
Raining hydrocarbons in the Gulf Below the Gulf of Mexico, hydrocarbons flow upward through an intricate network of conduits and reservoirs. They start in thin layers of source rock and, from there, buoyantly rise to the surface. |
Geotimes June 2003 |
Geophenomena Evidence for Dust Bowl dust in Greenland... New sinking rates for Louisiana |
Geotimes June 2003 |
Iraq's Desert Also Needs Healing The desert is protected by a delicate layer of gravel pieces, sorted and placed over time by wind. With the recent war in Iraq, military vehicles and digging destroyed this layer; but the military can take measures to begin to heal it. |
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