Environment & Geology

Magazine articles on environmental science and geology.

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Geotimes March 2007	Geophenomena Appalachian Mountains Becoming More Rugged... Smoke on the Water...
Geotimes March 2007 Steinmetz & Dickinson	Data Preservation: Old Samples Produce New Knowledge The ability to preserve and maintain geoscience data and collections has not kept pace with the growing need for information.
Geotimes March 2007 Linda Rowan	A Change in Climate in Congress: To Act or Not To Act Because some state and local governments are taking action, Congress will need to set some federal standards in the near term. The nation can ill-afford a hodge-podge of regulations and policies on climate change across the country.
Reactive Reports Issue 62	Take the Volcanic Fast-track to Nanotube Production Igneous rock from the Mount Etna volcanic eruptions could be used to mass produce carbon nanotubes, according to researchers.
Geotimes February 2007 Fred Schwab	Does Geology Kill You? We must become "medicinal geologists." Ignorance of geology, not geology itself, can make you sick. We must learn about the relationship between geology and human health.
Smithsonian February 2007 Eric Jaffe	Volcanic Lightning As sparks flew during the eruption of Mount St. Augustine in Alaska last year, scientists were able to make some new discoveries
Scientific American March 2007 Charles Q. Choi	Pole Positions More than 30 nations are initiating a global campaign to study the Arctic and Antarctic: an International Polar Year.
Chemistry World February 19, 2007 Jessica Ebert	Columbus' Explorers Failed to Strike Silver Samples of galena, excavated from a 15 th-century settlement were thought to represent an early attempt by Europeans to mine silver from Caribbean ores. But further analysis of the samples refutes this hypothesis, and reveals an unexpected origin for the ore.
Science News February 17, 2007	Science Safari: Ozone Depletion and Recovery Answers to questions about ozone depletion and the recovery of the ozone hole are now easy to find by researchers, as well as the general public, through a new online index developed by NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory.
Insurance & Technology January 31, 2007 Anthony O'Donnell	RMS Faces Heat in Florida Catastrophe modeler RMS finds itself in the midst of an acrimonious conflict between the State of Florida and P&C insurers about rising property insurance rates.
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