Environment & Geology

Magazine articles on environmental science and geology.

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BusinessWeek June 9, 2011 Peter Heller	The Mississippi River Flood and the Katrina Risk New Orleans and Baton Rouge are one breached levee away from Katrina-like devastation. Can the Army Corps of Engineers save them?
BusinessWeek June 9, 2011 Bjerga & McFerron	U.S. Weather Woes May Mean Higher Food Prices With corn fields under water and wheat withering in Western heat, grain prices could soon soar, boosting already high worldwide food costs
Chemistry World May 27, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Getting to grips with volcanic ash As the disruption to air travel caused by the eruption of the Grimsvotn volcano in Iceland subsides, researchers are taking a close look at volcanic ash to try to understand how hazardous it is to both aircraft engines and human health.
Chemistry World May 17, 2011	Saving water Richard Luthy talks to Michael Smith about safeguarding water quality and how military service in the Vietnam War led him to environmental science
IEEE Spectrum April 2011 William Sweet	Chernobyl, 25 Years Later The challenges of that crisis are the same Fukushima presents
IEEE Spectrum April 2011 Peter Fairley	Earthquakes Hinder Green Energy Plans Quakes slow geothermal energy, hydropower, and carbon sequestration projects
IEEE Spectrum April 2011 William Sweet	Civility of Climate Fixing the Sky is about the history of weather modification schemes, while Merchants of Doubt mainly concerns missile defense, acid rain, ozone depletion, and secondhand tobacco smoke.
BusinessWeek March 17, 2011 Jonathan Tirone	Searching for Clues Along the Ring of Fire Japan's earthquake will generate aftershocks for years, producing data that may yield insights about the quake-prone Pacific Rim.
TIME Asia March 28, 2011 Nancy Gibbs	The Day the Earth Moved The 9.0 quake that hit Japan on March 11 was powerful enough to shift the earth on its axis and make it spin a little faster, shortening the day by 1.8 millionths of a second.
Chemistry World March 18, 2011 Rebecca Brodie	Simple salt removal to get fresh water Scientists in the US have developed a membrane-free, solvent extraction method to remove salt from seawater that works at low temperatures.
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