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Geotimes February 2005 Sara Pratt |
Cicadas Speed Forest Growth The trillions of decomposing insects on forest floors across the eastern U.S. serve to fertilize the forests where they died. |
Geotimes February 2005 Megan Sever |
Mummy Tar in Ancient Egypt For millennia, ancient Egyptians used oil tar to preserve bodies. New geologic research shows that the tar came from several sources, shedding light on how trade routes of old compare to those of today. |
Geotimes February 2005 Joshua Zaffos |
Mid-Ocean Ridge Spread or Jam? Different spreading geologic ridges move at different rates, and new research may explain how changes in spreading rates affect heat distribution and crust development at the ridges, particularly the slow ones. |
Geotimes February 2005 Megan Sever |
Bugging Out with Warmer Weather If Earth continues to warm, especially in northern latitudes, insect outbreaks are more likely to occur, and potentially harm forests and affect the planet's carbon cycle. |
Geotimes February 2005 Naomi Lubick |
George H. Billingsley: Mapping the Grand Canyon Billingsley has published 70 maps of the region, and his love of the landscape keeps him going back to the field, as he tries to finish mapping the last few corners of the region. |
Outside February 2005 Mark Sundeen |
Eruptus Interruptus Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! Thar she... might blow! When Mount St. Helens threatened to go erupt again, disaster groupies rushed to the crater--and hoped for the worst. |
Outside February 2005 |
The Monterey Academy Research System Submarines and unmanned submersibles--for the past 20 years the vanguard of oceanography--are limited by battery life and storms that can make deployment or recall impossible. All that's about to change. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 William Sweet |
Victor Zagorodnov: Getting High on Glaciers How did a Russian who worked his way through an institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, earning degrees in electrical engineering and hydrology, end up working in Ohio for the world's leading research group in the field of tropical and subtropical glaciers? |
Science News January 29, 2005 Janet Raloff |
'Harmless' Alga Indicted for Mussel Poisoning Over the past decade, scores of Europeans have been poisoned by eating mussels harvested at various sites along the coast of Ireland. although pesticides or other pollutants were at first suspected, this bout of food poisoning traced to a common planktonic alga. |
Smithsonian February 2005 Helen Fields |
Invasion of the Snakeheads! The voracious "Frankenfish" has turned up in the Potomac River, Lake Michigan and a California lake, sparking fears of an ecological Armageddon. But is the Asian import a monster--or the victim of monster hype? |
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