Environment & Geology

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Geotimes November 2004	Connecting People to Science in the Himalaya An educational and cultural exchange between Nepali and Californian schools exemplifies how geologic research can be successfully combined with enriching student learning.
Geotimes November 2004 Megan Sever	Powerful earthquake strikes Indonesia On Friday morning at 5:26 a.m. local time, a magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck the eastern Indonesian island of Kepulauan Alor, according to preliminary reports from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Wired November 2004 Jeff Howe	The Great Southwest Salt Saga How an accidental oasis in the Mexican desert sank Arizona's $250 million desalination plant. A case study in the law of unintended consequences.
Geotimes November 2004 Timothy S. Collett	Gas Hydrates as a Future Energy Resource With higher natural gas prices and forecasts of tight supply, new projects are pushing forward to better understand the geologic, engineering and economic factors controlling the ultimate energy resource potential of gas hydrates.
Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick	Past warming for the future As the Bush administration prepares for a second term, only time will tell how its climate change policy will change in the next four years. In the meantime, discussions of the science behind climate changes abound in the journals and within the scientific community.
Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick	Iceland volcano erupts The Grimsvotn volcano started to explosively erupt on Nov. 1, three hours after a swarm of earthquakes indicated the onset of an event. The volcano sits beneath the middle of the Vatnajokull ice cap -- Europe's largest.
Fast Company November 2004 Martin Kihn	Boiling the Ocean What this bit of consulting buzz-speak would really entail: assuming no vacations, this means every single person on earth would have to consult for more than 26 million years to actually "boil the ocean."
Geotimes November 2004 Dickens & Pinsker	Methane Hydrate and Abrupt Climate Change Conceivably, we live in a world with an enormous amount of gas hydrate and free gas that affects climate and global systems over time
Geotimes November 2004 Jay Chapman	Taking the Fossil Out of Fuels New research is expanding the range of the formation of fossil fuels.
Geotimes November 2004 Sara Pratt	Fish Advisories on the Rise A new report from the Environmental Protection Agency shows an all-time high in the number of fish advisories that warn of contamination from toxins, including PCBs and mercury, despite a simultaneous decrease in U.S. emissions.
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