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Reactive Reports Issue 32 David Bradley |
Climatic models A fundamental flaw in our models of global climate change has been exposed by Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. |
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 David Fairlamb |
The Smog Trade Will pollution "credits" help clean up the world? |
Geotimes July 2003 Brett Beaulieu |
Water flow shapes the Everglades landscape Anyone who has ever tiptoed past the hissing alligators or watched the patient anhingas spread their wings to dry probably left the Everglades with an understanding that flowing water is the basis for this unique ecosystem. |
Geotimes July 2003 |
Highlights: Discoveries in the Earth Sciences Every year as we compile the Highlights issue, we aim to collect summaries about as many of the earth science disciplines as possible. |
Geotimes July 2003 Josh Chamot |
Jumbled Missouri geology linked to impact Combining a good bit of geologic sleuthing with a fortunate twist, Kevin Evans and colleagues at Southwest Missouri State University have uncovered what may be the fifth-largest impact structure in the United States. |
Geotimes July 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker |
Challenging core ideas Earth's core has never been so popular -- first plastered over billboards to advertise the recent movie The Core, and now in press worldwide discussing David Stevenson's "modest proposal" to send a grapefruit-sized probe thousands of kilometers into the planet's mysterious core. |
Geotimes July 2003 Greg Peterson |
Quake protection in the heartland A new building code based on a USGS map of earthquake risk suggests that buildings within the New Madrid zone -- which stretches from just west of Memphis, Tenn., to southern Illinois -- should meet the same seismic standards as those in California. |
Geotimes July 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker |
Watching the planet green A new generation of satellites is allowing scientists to, every week, watch the grass grow, literally. Combining data of vegetation density with digital data of global weather observations, they can see Earth's metabolism -- the rate at which plants are absorbing carbon out of the atmosphere. |
Geotimes July 2003 Christina Reed |
La Nina predicted to boost hurricane season This year's hurricane season is promising strong activity due to a confluence in time of La Nina, which is expected to arrive this summer, with a multidecadal pattern of tropical rainfall that supports hurricane activity. |
Geotimes July 2003 M. Ray Thomasson |
Cooperating to Lead The American Geological Institute gathered geoscience leaders in Washington, D.C., to find new opportunities for alliance. |
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