Environment & Geology

Magazine articles on environmental science and geology.

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Fast Company June 1, 2007 Daniel C. Esty	Final Word The Supreme Court weighs in on global warming.
Science News May 19, 2007 Julie J. Rehmeyer	Miles from Nowhere Scientists have developed a new technique for calculating the ecological value of road-free areas of land and representing them geometrically.
Chemistry World May 17, 2007 Victoria Gill	Is Seafloor Mining Too Risky? An article highlighting the environmental risks posed by deep sea mining has been heavily criticized by a company currently exploring the potential of ocean mineral reserves.
Reactive Reports May 2007 David Bradley	Windows Cause Pollution According to researchers, the grime that accumulates on windows, buildings, roads, and other urban surfaces could be an important source of nitrogen oxide air pollutants.
Geotimes May 2007 Megan Sever	The Plague: Could It Happen Again? Centuries ago, plague was brought about by the expansion of global travel at the same time climate changed. Given the extent of globalization today, and the fact that the climate is changing, health officials and the public wonder if there is a risk of history repeating itself.
Geotimes May 2007 Hope Jahren	Geologists Weigh in on Diet and Disease Geoscientists can play a special role in contributing to medical research, using the integrative systems-based approaches pervasive to earth science.
Geotimes May 2007 Kathryn Hansen	On the Path of Bird Flu U.S.G.S. biologists are tracking the migration of bar-tailed godwits and other wild migratory birds via satellite to find out if they are likely vectors of H5N1 bird flu.
Geotimes May 2007 Nicole Branan	Kenyan Erosion Portends Problems Soil erosion is a serious problem in Kenya, endangering the nation's food security and threatening its terrestrial ecosystems and near-shore marine environments. But because of a lack of long, continuous records, the patterns of soil erosion are largely unknown.
Geotimes May 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Geology Department to Close at SUNY-Albany Long on the brink of extinction, geology at the State University of New York at Albany has taken one step closer to the edge.
Geotimes May 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Yellowstone Fires Leave Microbes Nitrogen-Hungry Researchers hot on the trail of severe fires in Yellow-stone National Park have found that the nitrogen in forest soils can be greatly affected by such fires, which occur within the region once every few hundred years, and kill most of a forest's trees.
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