Environment & Geology

Magazine articles on environmental science and geology.

Old Articles: <Older 791-800 Newer>

Geotimes June 2006 Erika Engelhaupt	Warming Opened Americas to Humans About 18,000 years ago the comparatively luxuriant Americas beckoned to hunter-gatherers in eastern Asia by way of present-day Alaska, with warmer climes and plenty of fish and game, say geoarchaeologists.
Geotimes June 2006 Michael Glantz	Global Warming: Whose Problem is it Anyway? Global warming is not a hoax. It actually happens naturally. Industrialization processes in rich countries and now in developing ones are abetting the naturally occurring greenhouse effect.
Geotimes June 2006 Naomi Lubick	Natalie Mahowald: Interdisciplinary Intellect Natalie Mahowald combines biology, atmospheric chemistry and a slew of other scientific fields into cutting-edge interdisciplinary climate work.
IEEE Spectrum June 2006 Theberge & Dudek	Gone Swimmin' An amphibious robot explores aquatic environments and could help save coral reefs, too.
IEEE Spectrum June 2006 Stephen Barlas	Troubled Weather Satellite Program Cost overruns and project delays have led to a cloudy forecast for the United States' new polar-orbiting weather satellites. The problems with the polar satellites are a major concern for the whole enterprise of monitoring Earth from outer space.
Geotimes May 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Indonesian Quake Linked to Volcanic Activity? A powerful earthquake rocked through Indonesia's district of Bantul early Saturday morning, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands homeless. The quake could spell trouble for nearby Mount Merapi volcano, now on high alert for eruption.
Scientific American June 2006 Michael Shermer	The Flipping Point How the evidence for anthropogenic global warming has converged to cause this environmental skeptic to make a cognitive flip
Scientific American May 15, 2006 Gunjan Sinha	Pumping Coal Coming soon to the U.S.: Cleaner diesel from dirty coal.
Geotimes May 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Indonesian Volcano Ready to Erupt Spewing hot clouds of gas and bulging with lava, Mount Merapi, one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes, has rumbled to life, and a full-scale eruption is imminent, local officials warn.
Chemistry World May 11, 2006 Jon Evans	Sea Water Assumes the Xenon Mantle Geochemists have uncovered evidence that sea water incorporates noble gases into the Earth's mantle, overturning current theories of how noble gases are transported beneath the crust.
<Older 791-800 Newer> Return to current articles.