Environment & Geology

Magazine articles on environmental science and geology.

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Geotimes December 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Cave Discovery Dazzles National Park A new cave find could help scientists learn about the geologic history of the Sierra Nevada.
Geotimes December 2006 Megan Sever	Methane Budget to Become Off-Balance Methane packs a big punch in the atmosphere. A team of climate scientists now says that it has better determined the primary controls over the methane budget over the past two decades, and the team offers a warning for the future: methane emissions will likely rise.
Geotimes December 2006 Arthur Lerner-Lam	Don't Prioritize: Mainstream Hazard Reduction Into Economic Development Aid A global effort to reduce natural hazard risks is a dream shared by many, but it cannot play out in a development policy vacuum. Making the explicit link between risk reduction and economic development turns a global effort into an international one.
Geotimes December 2006 Linda Rowan	A Look Back at the 109th Congress: Like Oil and Water Congress had a year marked by short-term decision-making, in which large emergency spending maintained status quo when it came to natural hazards and energy legislation.
Geotimes December 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Congressional Science Fellows: Broadening Horizons With much of the nation paying close attention to issues relating to climate, energy and the environment, it is a good time to get more science to Capitol Hill, to help advise policy-makers on these key issues.
Smithsonian December 2006 Laura Helmuth	Antarctica Erupts! A trip to Mount Erebus yields a rare, close-up look at one of the world's weirdest geological marvels.
Smithsonian December 2006 Marian Smith Holmes	Interview: Margaret Lowman Bugs in trees and kids in labs get their due in the new book, It's a Jungle Up There, by pioneering forest ecologist "Canopy Meg."
Chemistry World November 27, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Home-Baked Plants Solve Petrol Mystery Scientists have baked up their own artificial leaf fossils to answer a long-standing puzzle concerning the chemical formation of kerogen, a precursor to fossil fuels.
Geotimes November 2006 Lisa Rossbacher	Thinking Space A 2005 report of the Committee on Support for Thinking Spatially: The Incorporation of Geographic Information Science Across the K-12 Curriculum makes a powerful argument for why spatial thinking is important.
Science News November 25, 2006	Science Safari: Snow Crystals A Web site, created by a physicist, provides an introduction to the physics of snowflake formation, information on growing snowflakes, and ideas for snow and ice activities.
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