Environment & Geology

Magazine articles on environmental science and geology.

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PC Magazine November 14, 2007 John Brandon	Q&A: Ken Graham, National Weather Service The director of the National Weather Service's (NWS) integrated services talks about tech advances in forecasting.
This Old House October 2007 Natalie Rodriguez	Insulation Made From Mushrooms? Yes. Students actually grew a new material designed to keep the heat in.
This Old House October 2007 Kelly Beamon	Water the Lawn with Your Saturday Night Bath These three gray-water retrofits can shrink your water bill.
Geotimes November 2007	Down to Earth With.... David Applegate An interview with David Applegate: historian, geologist, Congressional Science Fellow, former editor of Geotimes, and presently the head of the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Hazards Program.
Geotimes November 2007 Toulkeridis et al.	When Volcanoes Threaten, Scientists Warn After multiple false alarms of volcanoes erupting, people may start to doubt the credibility of the alarms and not listen to them. Scientists need to better predict and communicate the dangers arising from living in the shadow of volcanoes.
Geotimes November 2007 Feldman & Tilling	Danger Lurks Deep: The Human Impact of Volcanoes Volcanic eruptions occur infrequently, yet have the potential to unleash some of the most destructive forces on Earth.
Geotimes November 2007 Kathryn Watts	Yellowstone and Heise: Supervolcanoes That Lighten Up Beneath Yellowstone, and driving many of its beloved features such as the geyser Old Faithful, lies a churning chamber of magma that has erupted before and may erupt again.
Geotimes November 2007 Jenna Beck	Nevada Wells Test Positive for Polonium USGS scientists report that 25 wells in Nevada contained the carcinogenic, radioactive isotope polonium-210. Of these wells, 13 exceeded the U.S. EPA's Maximum Contaminant Level for gross alpha radioactivity in a public water supply.
Geotimes November 2007 Erin Wayman	Auto Ruling Paves the Way for Efficiency Standards Much to the chagrin of the auto industry, a federal judge ruled that states have the right to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks.
Geotimes November 2007 Nicole Branan	Volcanoes May Have Swallowed Early Earth's Oxygen New research suggests that early Earth did have oxygen during parts of the Archean (between 3.8 billion and 2.5 billion years ago), but volcanoes swallowed it up, thus preventing life from thriving.
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