Environment & Geology

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Geotimes June 2006 Jennifer Yauck	Confirming a Chinese Earthquake Prediction Now, after gaining access to formerly classified Chinese documents and key people involved with the 1975 earthquake prediction process, a team of scientists has reconstructed this important event and concluded that earthquake prediction, though challenging, is not impossible.
National Defense July 2006 Randy Cerar	Business Reforms Lead to Reduced Army Cleanup Costs To expedite the cleanup of contaminated sites, the Army has instituted an array of management reforms that also are saving the service millions of dollars.
InternetNews June 20, 2006 David Needle	Sun, Stanford Research The Earth Sun Microsystems today joined Silicon Valley neighbor Stanford University in unveiling an advanced research center that will focus on environmental science, oil exploration and more.
Geotimes June 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Geoscience Training in Full Force GeoFORCE, a new summer program designed to shape the next generation of earth scientists, allows students to apply classroom learning to the world around them.
Chemistry World June 2, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Size Matters in Cloud Formation Scientists grappling to understand the effect of man-made aerosols on cloud formation have decided that particle size, rather than chemistry, is the main factor.
Geotimes June 2006 Stephen L. Gillett	A Nanotechnology Revolution for the Geosciences Wastewater streams, acid-mine drainage, seawater, concentrated natural brines such as those in oilfields or saline lakes -- sometimes viewed now as problems -- all could become potential sources of materials with the help of nanotechnology.
Geotimes June 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Fish Teeth Bite Into Antarctic Formation Ancient fish teeth are taking a bite out of an old conundrum about how Antarctica became the frigid continent that it is today. The teeth suggest an early start to key oceanic processes that drove the climatic shift.
Geotimes June 2006 Megan Sever	Plate Shifts in the Pacific Northwest The far northern section of the Sumatra-style subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest could be transforming into more of a San Andreas-style seismic zone, according to new research. This geologic reorganization could have implications for the region's earthquake risk.
Geotimes June 2006 Katie Unger	Ancient Methane-Makers Researchers extracted methane gas from hydrothermal dikes in Western Australia and say that microbes produced the gas, which is evidence of some of Earth's earliest life.
Geotimes June 2006 Megan Sever	Seeing Below Tambora On April 10, 1815, Mount Tambora, on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, exploded in the largest recorded eruption in human history. Few, if any, of the estimated thousands of people living on the volcano's slopes survived, but new excavations there are shedding light on their lives.
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