Environment & Geology

Magazine articles on environmental science and geology.

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Geotimes August 2007 Erin Saupe	Climate Kick-Started Agriculture Researchers examined charcoal and plant microfossils in the Balsas Valley in southern Mexico to determine when agriculture began there.
Geotimes August 2007 Megan Sever	Climate Change Will Cost us According to a new report, dealing with the effects of climate change will cost both citizens and businesses, especially insurance companies, but will cost the U.S. government even more -- and before its emergency coffers are bankrupted, the government needs to take action.
Geotimes August 2007 Carolyn Gramling	No More "Snows of Kilimanjaro"? Mount Kilimanjaro's glaciers have receded dramatically, making the highest point in Africa a high-profile poster child for global warming. Some scientists contend, however, that Kilimanjaro is a poor example, as its glaciers were disappearing before warming set in.
Geotimes August 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Earth's Core is Solid, After All Seismic waves passing through Earth's center have long puzzled researchers, as some waves travel fast enough to indicate that Earth's inner core is solid iron-nickel crystals, but they do not travel quite as quickly as scientists would expect, based on studies of stiff iron alloys.
Geotimes August 2007 Megan Sever	Genetic Discovery Yields Stronger Plants Researchers have discovered a gene in a variety of rice that allows rice plants to grow better in low-nutrient conditions and may in fact actually enhance plant growth.
Geotimes August 2007 Lynn Persing	Down to Earth with... Gavin Smith and Michael Mann In late 2004, fed up with scientific misinformation in movies such as The Day After Tomorrow, climate scientists Gavin Schmidt of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and Michael Mann of Penn State University in University Park created the blog RealClimate.org.
Geotimes August 2007 Harvey Leifert	Say Hello to Your PIO A public information officer is a science writer who can explain the significance of what scientists have discovered in terms nonscientists can understand. Here's how they can help earth scientists.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Steven Cherry	Time's Up? Leonardo DiCaprio's new documentary, The 11th Hour, is a flawed but useful contribution from Hollywood on the topic of the future of Planet Earth.
Chemistry World July 25, 2007 Peter Mitchell	Newly Identified Side to Global Warming An atmospheric mechanism has emerged that could lift global temperatures by even higher than the 2-5 C rise predicted by the end of the century as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.
Reactive Reports Issue 67 David Bradley	Contaminated Seabirds A new approach to monitoring seabirds for contamination with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other persistent organic pollutants (POPs) has been developed by scientists in Japan.
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