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Geotimes September 2006 Megan Sever |
Hockey Stick Climate Study Faces Scrutiny With one report recently released that criticizes the statistical methods behind the hockey stick climate analysis of the past 1,000 years, and another recent report taking a broader look at all evidence for climate change, Congress is considering how past changes fit into the climate future. |
Geotimes September 2006 Carolyn Gramling |
China's Massive Dam Alters Weather China's Three Gorges Dam is famed for its size -- and its reservoir may be large enough to change regional weather patterns. |
Geotimes September 2006 Jennifer Yauck |
Desert Varnish Baked in Mojave Desert varnish gives rocks a black, shiny look in dry environments. A new study suggests the coating forms from nonbiological processes, but other scientists say that microbes play a role. |
Geotimes September 2006 Lee Gerhard |
Testing Global Warming Hypotheses Global climate change has been a natural phenomenon driven by natural processes for 4.5 billion years. Nevertheless, cultural pressures exist to identify a human cause for current global climate change. |
Geotimes September 2006 Linda Rowan |
Where the Water Ends and the Wetland Begins Recently, a fractured decision on a Clean Water Act case has left the nation wondering where the water ends and the wetland begins. The lack of a decisive outcome will ensure more litigation in the lower courts over interpretations of the Clean Water Act. |
Geotimes September 2006 Carolyn Gramling |
Donald Forsyth: At Play in the Field Forsyth emphasizes that collaborating with students and other researchers is not only important to solving tough geological puzzles, but also is much of the fun. |
Chemistry World August 29, 2006 Jessica Ebert |
Life in a CO2 Lake A microbial community able to survive in the sediments overlying a deep-sea liquid CO 2 lake could serve as a natural laboratory for studying the impacts of deep-sea CO 2 storage on marine life, report scientists. |
Chemistry World August 25, 2006 Maria Burke |
American Rain Loses Its Acidity Rain in North Carolina is less acidic than it was 20 years ago, report researchers in the state. The changes could trigger significant -- mostly positive -- environmental effects. |
Chemistry World August 23, 2006 Tom Westgate |
Frozen Fuel Find Rewrites Rule Book Earth scientists are revising their ideas about natural gas hydrates after discovering that large deposits of the water and methane mixture can form at surprisingly shallow depths below the sea floor. |
Scientific American September 2006 |
Cooling Our Heels Without the U.S. at the head of the table, the prospects for any meaningful action on a global scale will gradually recede along with the Arctic glaciers. |
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