Environment & Geology

Magazine articles on environmental science and geology.

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Salon.com August 19, 2002 Farhad Manjoo	Accounting scandal at Mother Earth, Inc. Put that rainforest on your spreadsheet and suddenly the global economy looks different, by trillions of dollars, a new study shows.
Outside August 2002 John Galvin	Dude Over Troubled Water The strangest stuff litters the flood-sloshed banks of the Mississippi River and her tributaries. When the going gets gross, the man to call is Chad Pregracke, a crusading voyager in the war against trash.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2002	NOAA Paleoclimatology Program In order to avoid future "climate surprises" (abrupt, unexpected climatic changes), the Paleoclimatology Program collects evidence of climate change that has occurred over hundreds and even thousands of years.
Wired July 2002 Michael Behar	Cold Rush Long hours. Subfreezing winds. months of absolute darkness. Welcome to the South Pole, where the coolest science outpost on earth is being built atop 9,000 feet of solid ice. The area is a benchmark for monitoring the health of the atmosphere and an ideal site for studying astronomy.
D-Lib May 2002 Michael Wright	Meta-Design of a Community Digital Library This article presents how the geoscience community has worked to develop The Digital Library for Earth System Education in the light of recent work in the area of meta-design, the design of the design process...
Reason May 2002 Ronald Bailey	Green with Ideology The hidden agenda behind the "scientific" attacks on Bjorn Lomborg's controversial book, The Skeptical Environmentalist...
Mother Jones Mar/Apr 2002 David Kohn	The 300-Million-Gallon Warning Are the nation's abandoned coal-slurry ponds environmental disasters waiting to happen?
Wired February 2002 Steven Kotler	Reengineering the Everglades For decades, the world's largest wetlands have been diked, dammed, diverted, and drained. Here's how massive earthmoving, underground plumbing, and statistical modeling are getting South Florida back to nature -- new and improved...
Outside February 2002 William T. Vollmann	Where the Ghost Bird Sings by the Poison Springs What's that smell? It's a teeming avian sanctuary— and a sump of troubled waters. It's a mess that we created— and a puzzle we can't solve. It's California's Salton Sea, a hypersaline lake that kills the very life it shelters...
Salon.com January 14, 2002 John Glassie	E.O. Wilson The great scientist and conservationist explains the terrorism we insist on overlooking. And space colonies won't help, either...
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