Environment & Geology

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Geotimes April 2006 Naomi Lubick	Need a Job? Coal Workers Wanted As the demand for coal increases, the demand for coal workers is also rising, at a time when a notable dearth of mining engineering geologists and other workers is coming down the pipe.
Geotimes April 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Funding Great Lakes Restoration To help restore health to the Great Lakes, which contain about 95% of North America's fresh surface water, Congress introduced two bills last week, but such restoration comes with a lofty price tag.
Popular Mechanics April 2006 Barbara Maynard	Fire in Ice Natural gas locked up in methane hydrates could be the world's next great energy source -- if engineers can figure out how to extract it safely.
Chemistry World April 4, 2006 Arthur Rogers	EU-Wide Carbon Capture Project A four-year carbon sequestration project backed by 30 European universities and energy companies will test the viability of CO 2 capture as a means of curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
Geotimes April 2006 Megan Sever	Feeling the Heat Wave New research on ways to mitigate the urban heat island effect is showing that simple techniques show promise in at least partially reversing the urban warming.
Geotimes April 2006 Naomi Lubick	Faith-Based Carbon Credit Systems Market-based approaches to help stem carbon releases, and in turn climate change, could prove difficult to marshal and enforce. Carbon credits and trade incentives are a small piece in a larger issue.
Geotimes April 2006 Naomi Lubick	Minerals Cut Again Again, the President's proposed budget for 2007 scuttled the USGS's Mineral Resources Program. The requested cuts affect the collection of data on everything from mineral formation to the extent of worldwide deposits of economic commodities.
Geotimes April 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Deep Sediments, Strong Quakes The surprising strength of the earthquake that triggered the 2004 Sumatran tsunami urged seismologists to discover triggers that lead up to these events. New models show responsibility may rest on sediments than can collect kilometers deep at the junctions of tectonic plates.
Geotimes April 2006 Megan Sever	Undersea Methane Not to Blame New research is indicating that for at least three abrupt warming periods over the past 40,000 years, the warming was accompanied by, but not caused by, an increase in methane, and the methane increase was from the land, not the sea.
Geotimes April 2006 Naomi Lubick	Tibetan Plateau Timing Exactly how and when the Tibetan Plateau's uprising began remains debated. New data suggest that the southern half of the plateau reached its current height before 35 million years ago.
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