Environment & Geology

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Geotimes October 2005 Naomi Lubick	Kashmir Earthquake A magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Pakistan, killing more than 20,000 people. Aftershocks followed, including one magnitude 6.2 and many larger than magnitude 5. The region is extremely tectonically active.
Geotimes October 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Greenhouse Gases Revisited Scientists say now that a new method of tracking the effects of greenhouse gases could lead to a more accurate understanding of their impact on climate change, which other scientists say the Arctic is already experiencing on a dramatic scale.
Wired October 2005 Charles Graeber	The Tornado Rider Thrill-seeker Steve Green wants to drive into the eye of a twister. So he crashed the storm-chasing party with the ultimate tornado-proof car. If the cyclones don't kill him, the other drivers will.
IDB America September 2005 Roger Hamilton	Scientists Roll up Their Sleeves on Brazil's Coral Coast Marine ecologists want to reverse the destruction of coral reefs. But they know that research alone cannot conserve a precious resource without the participation of the local people.
Geotimes October 2005 Naomi Lubick	China's Changing Landscape As China continues its economic metamorphosis into the gorilla in the global sandbox, it has rapidly changed its physical environment. Home to some of the world's largest cities, the country contains several of the most polluted cities in the world, partly because of its reliance on coal for energy.
Geotimes October 2005 Megan Sever	Carbon's Complicated River Ride Researchers recently found that carbon moves from the atmosphere, through trees, soil and water, and back into the atmosphere in fewer than five years, indicating that the landscape is not providing as much long-term storage of carbon dioxide as hoped.
Geotimes October 2005 Kathryn Hansen	New Flare for Space Weather Prediction Solar flares are not uncommon, and the potential devastation to earth-bound technology and to astronauts is driving researchers to improve existing prediction capabilities.
Geotimes October 2005 Sara Pratt	Revisiting the Satellite Record Global warming skeptics have long pointed to satellite data showing cooling in the tropical atmosphere as evidence that either climate models or measurements of surface warming, or both, are unreliable. New research suggests, however, that it is the analysis of the satellite data that was wrong.
Geotimes October 2005 Naomi Lubick	Ozone Link to Permian Extinction New research on how ozone affects plants and their reproduction may be the key to figuring out what happened to trigger Earth's largest extinction event, which occurred around 250 million years ago.
Geotimes October 2005 Megan Sever	Volcanic Prepping for Dinosaur Extinction Many scientists accept that an impact on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula is to blame for the dinosaurs' demise. But as more research is conducted on a lava flow in India, some geologists grow more convinced that the environment was already significantly perturbed when that projectile struck, and that the impact was simply a final straw.
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