Environment & Geology

Magazine articles on environmental science and geology.

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Geotimes September 2004 Sarah Todd Davidson	The Center of it All: Visiting Central Park New York's Central Park presents a treasure trove of important geologic information.
Geotimes September 2004 Naomi Lubick	Broadening horizons for students Snee Hall is home to Cornell University's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Since broadening its subject base in 2002, the department has greatly increased its number of majors.
Geotimes September 2004 Rossbacher & Rhodes	Building Geology for the Future: Cui bono? Academic geology departments are under attack and have been for more than a decade. Now, Geology departments are facing increasing challenges to survive.
Geotimes September 2004 Jay Chapman	Warming up to Rock Falls Last summer climbers became stranded on the slopes of the Matterhorn when the mountain literally began to crumble under their feet. Now, researchers are blaming record-breaking summer temperatures in 2003 for the destabilization of the Alps.
Geotimes September 2004 Naomi Lubick	Measuring Sea-Level Rise As sea level rises, it threatens to flood the low-lying South Pacific islands that make up the 10-square-mile country of Tuvalu, none of which are higher than 4.5 meters above the ocean.
Geotimes September 2004 Sara Pratt	Magnetic Murals Geophysicists and archaeologists are using the record of Earth's magnetic field, fixed in the red pigments of those murals, to build a historical timeline for Mesoamerica using the colorful ancient murals hidden inside Mexican temples.
Geotimes September 2004 Jay Chapman	Hurricanes' Green Thumb As coastal residents are geared up for this year's peak Atlantic hurricane season -- mid-August through October -- scientists are looking at past hurricanes to better understand what happens to the oceans in the wake of these whirlwind events.
Geotimes September 2004 Megan Sever	Slower Cooling in Oregon New research suggests that the climate in Oregon slowly cooled over 6 million years as a result of evolving grasslands pulling carbon dioxide out of the air and locking the carbon into the soil.
Geotimes September 2004	Illegal Uranium Mining in the Congo In the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo, thousands of miners are illegally working the Shinkolobwe mine in the southeastern province of Katanga.
Geotimes September 2004 Harold McWilliams	Transforming Teachers into Designers Earth Science by Design promotes creating stronger, more professional earth science teachers, fully versed in the core ideas of their discipline and skilled in the curriculum design techniques that the best developers have used for years.
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