Environment & Geology

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Geotimes December 2005 David Applegate	A Year of Living Dangerously Recent destructive events are reminders of our society's growing vulnerability to natural disasters as more people move into harm's way. Scientists seeking to understand the underlying geologic systems have an obligation to learn more.
Geotimes December 2005	Highlights 2005 -- Natural Hazards Drilling a fault... Mount St. Helens awakens... Reviewing Sumatra... SAFOD crosses the fault...
Geotimes December 2005 Kevin E. Trenberth	A Warming World Climate change is with us; we cannot stop it, although we can slow it down. It behooves us therefore to track how and why the climate is changing.
Geotimes December 2005 Naomi Lubick	Global Climate Affects Storms? Experts caution that drawing a direct link between climate change and hurricane behavior is not yet possible, and that the El Nino-Southern Oscillation may have more of an impact on storm intensity and occurrence.
Geotimes December 2005 Douglas H. Erwin	Out of the Past and Into the Future Some of the greatest recent triumphs of paleontology have come from intensive and rewarding collaborations among paleontologists, stratigraphers, geochemists and geochronologists.
Geotimes December 2005 Megan Sever	Halting Exploding Lakes It sounds like a bad horror movie: exploding killer lakes. But such lakes are a reality in Cameroon, Africa. Scientists there are developing a solution, however, to stop the natural hazard.
Geotimes December 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Road Salt Contaminates Water When faced with a winter storm, cities deploy trucks to cover city streets with salt. The nation's favorite deicer, however, pollutes freshwater, and new research suggests the effects of road salt may be more widespread than previously thought.
Geotimes December 2005 Naomi Lubick	Slushball Life Hundreds of millions of years ago, a carapace of ice may have periodically covered the entire planet. New research, however, indicates that microbes seem to have thrived in certain places that they should not have during that time, leading scientists to conclude that the snowball was more slushy than frozen solid.
Geotimes December 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Sun Fuels Climate Change The recipe for global warming has changed, according to a new statistical analysis of solar output. The sun may be increasing its output and contributing to global warming more than previously thought.
Geotimes December 2005 Donald C. Swanson	Don't Try to Fool Mother Nature Protecting and maintaining a city on a delta is confronting the dynamics of sediment and water responding to gravity, a basic force in the universe. Gravity-driven phenomena dominate the delta environment and are major guns in Mother Nature's arsenal.
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