Environment & Geology

Magazine articles on environmental science and geology.

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Geotimes December 2006	Top Climate News Stories of 2006 A new public face for climate change... Strong debate over storms... Thawing ice shifts water cycles... Methane climate menagerie... etc.
Geotimes December 2006	Top Energy News Stories of 2006 Offshore drilling debate unresolved... Tensions in Latin America energy sector... etc.
Geotimes December 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Natural Hazards: Damage Control Watching for the Waves: Q&A with David Green, NOAA's Tsunami Program manager, on the newest technologies, systems and collaborations that scientists are devising to send swifter warnings.
Geotimes December 2006	Top Natural Hazards News Stories of 2006 Looking Into Landslides... Getting Ready for the Rumble... Levee Concerns Abound... Spreading Wildfire... etc.
Geotimes December 2006 Megan Sever	New Explanation Offered for Delphi Trances Geochemists recently sampled the carbonate rock around the spring near the Grecian temple at Delphi to determine the types of gas that might be present at the site. Gases are thought to be responsible for the oracle at Delphi's prophetic powers.
Geotimes December 2006 Megan Sever	Mudflows Inundate Indonesian Villages A team of geologists recently traveled to Indonesia to examine a mudflow that has buried several villages, and to try to determine what caused the sudden eruption.
Geotimes December 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Gold Mine Deposited Rapidly For those with gold fever, there's good news. One of the world's largest gold deposits may have been deposited in the geologic blink of an eye -- within only 55,000 years.
Geotimes December 2006 Megan Sever	Dates Help Paint Picture of Early Migration Geologists and archaeologists are both trying to solve the puzzle of how and when the first settlers migrated to the Americas. New radiocarbon dates from marine sediments in the Arctic are helping geologists better create a timeline for their piece of the puzzle, which could in turn help archaeologists with their job.
Geotimes December 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Wobbling Earth Linked to Mammal Extinctions Periodic changes in Earth's orbit and tilt may be controlling the appearances and disappearances of mammal species, a new study suggests.
Geotimes December 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Lab Experiment Reveals Earthquake Ruptures Not all earthquakes are created equal, according to new research that has brought earthquakes into the lab. For the first time, researchers physically observed two types of earthquake growth patterns, which until now, were limited to the realm of theory.
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