Environment & Geology

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Chemistry World February 3, 2006 Arthur Rogers	Europe Tightens Fluorinated Gas Restrictions European Union Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas is threatening tougher controls on use of fluorinated gases implicated in global warming.
Geotimes February 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Bush addresses alternative energy Tucked between talk of U.S. heathcare reform and American economic competitiveness, the president rolled out his new Advanced Energy Initiative, which he said will help the United States can "move beyond a petroleum-based economy."
Geotimes February 2006 Naomi Lubick	Trees Confound Global Warming The potential canceling-out effects of trees' low reflectivity for carbon sequestration raise questions as to whether tree planters should get carbon credits in North America, as outlined in the Kyoto Protocol.
Geotimes February 2006 Megan Sever	Carving on Glacial Time A new technique for calculating the rate in which glaciers and rivers erode the landscape is shedding light on the timing of these glacial processes.
Geotimes February 2006 Megan Sever	Arsenic Leaching Into Water From Soil Researchers suggest that the rivers that drain the mountains are still bringing in the arsenic and depositing it throughout Bangladesh during annual floods. During the dry period, the arsenic would be drawn down to the aquifer, thus replenishing the aquifer's arsenic levels.
Geotimes February 2006 Megan Sever	Man-Sized Scorpion Tracks Geologist Martin Whyte's discovery of 330 million-year-old man-sized walking eurypterid tracks helps to shed light on that time's environment.
Geotimes February 2006 Naomi Lubick	Is Ocean Circulation Slowing Down? New measurements of temperature and salinity in the North Atlantic indicate that changes are occurring in this segment of the ocean's circulation that could eventually affect Earth's climate.
Geotimes February 2006 Robert S. Young	The High Cost of Subsidized Coastal Development Coastal geologists, engineers and managers can objectively determine where the most vulnerable shorelines are. And in the interest of fairness, American taxpayers must insist that the communities that build there assume responsibility for themselves.
Geotimes February 2006 Steven Quane	The Great Washington Rift Is the bipartisan support for the Peak Oil Caucus' H.R. 507, which expresses the desire for the US to collaborate with international allies to establish a new project to address the challenges of peak oil, mending the Great Washington Rift?
Geotimes February 2006 Naomi Lubick	Margaret Kivelson: Magnetically Minded The scientific community cites this geophysicist's contributions to space science with regard to the magnetic fields of Jupiter and its moons, in addition to Earth's, and her efforts to encourage women in science.
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