Environment & Geology

Magazine articles on environmental science and geology.

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Smithsonian August 2007 Robert M. Poole	Fish Story Native trout are returning to America's rivers and streams, thanks to new thinking by scientists and conservationists.
Outside July 2007 Amanda Griscom Little	Brain Storm It's not nice to fool Mother Nature, but as the mercury rises, a crop of weather-changing scientists want to try.
Wired June 26, 2007 Josh McHugh	Climate Change-Hurricane Debate Too Close to Call, Author Says The debate over the cause for an increase in hurricanes continues, but it may be too soon to take sides.
Chemistry World July 19, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Antarctic Atmosphere Could Give Gaia Hypothesis a Boost The surprising discovery of significant quantities of iodine oxide in the lower atmosphere above Antarctica will have a potentially significant impact on current models of global atmospheric chemistry.
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 John Boyd	Quake-Hit Nuclear Plant Shut Down Indefinitely Three days after a deadly earthquake caused damage to the world's most powerful nuclear complex, experts determined that the Tokyo-area Kashiwazaki Kariwa facility may be located on a previously undetected extension of a major fault line.
Chemistry World July 18, 2007 Lionel Milgrom	Optimism Greets China's Quest for Clean Coal After 40 years of failure, Chinese scientists are on the verge of successfully producing clean fuels from underground coal deposits.
D-Lib August 2007 Kubiszewski & Cleveland	D-Lib Featured Collection July/August 2007: The Encyclopedia of Earth The Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) seeks to become the world's largest and most authoritative electronic source of information about the environments of Earth and their interactions with society.
Chemistry World July 12, 2007 Tom Westgate	Model Enzyme Attacks Alkyl Mercury US chemists have devised a molecular mimic for an enzyme that destroys toxic alkyl mercury pollutants.
Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling	X-ray Eyes in the Sky Scientists are working on the next generation of low-orbiting satellites that they hope will see far past the Earth's surface and into its interior, to better understand the structure and composition of Earth's crust, mantle and core.
Geotimes July 2007 Kathryn Hansen	African Dust Helps Islands Bloom A new study suggests that African dust helps build soil on some Western Atlantic islands that would otherwise lack enough fertile land for crops, including sugar cane, to thrive.
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