Environment & Geology

Magazine articles on environmental science and geology.

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Chemistry World October 5, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Air, Can we Have Our Carbon Back? Sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is outlandishly expensive. But a US scientist who has just worked out how to improve its efficiency predicts it will be necessary before the end of the century.
Chemistry World October 2007 Stuart Haszeldine	How to Bury the Problem Carbon capture and storage could allow us to burn fossil fuels without climate consequences - but only with more investment in R&D.
Geotimes October 2007 Moran & Backman	The Arctic Ocean: So Much We Still Don't Know In 2004, the Arctic Coring Expedition team took three ships to the Arctic to drill a core near the Lomonosov Ridge. The team's results are teaching us more than we ever knew about the past 65 million years in the Arctic.
Geotimes October 2007 Gregory E. van der Vink	Democracy, GDP and Natural Disasters The impact of a natural disaster is not simply a function of the natural event itself, but is determined also by society's ability to respond to the disaster.
Geotimes October 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Error in NASA Climate Data Sparks Debate Due to an error in calculations of mean U.S. temperatures, 1934, not 1998 as previously reported, is the hottest year on record in the United States.
Geotimes October 2007 Nicole Branan	Chemicals Worse for Corals Than Oil Researchers collected coral fragments in the Red Sea to test for reactions to chemical dispersants used to clean up oil spills. They found the dispersants damaged corals more than the oil.
Geotimes October 2007 Megan Sever	Indonesia Mudflow Caused by Earthquake? A mud volcano has been erupting since May 2006 in Indonesia. New research says the initial eruption was caused by an earthquake.
Geotimes October 2007 Nicole Branan	Bre-X Scandal Ends with Acquittal One of the mining industry's biggest scandals -- the Bre-X gold scam that preceded the company's collapse 10 years ago -- came to a close with the acquittal in a Canadian criminal court of Bre-X's former vice-chairman and chief geologist John Felderhof.
Geotimes October 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Talc May Reduce Friction at Creeping Fault A three-kilometer-deep borehole drilled by SAFOD in 2005 crossed the central "creeping" part of the San Andreas Fault, producing rock cuttings containing both serpentinite and talc.
Geotimes October 2007 Nicole Branan	Current Not Responsible for Antarctica's Ice? The long-held theory of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current triggering the continent's formation of its permanent ice sheet is being challenged by a new study suggesting that a strong ACC didn't start until about 10 million years after the ice cap formed.
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