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Geotimes
August 2005
Megan Sever |
Confusion Over Sinking Coasts in Gulf A new federal report states that land in Louisiana and probably throughout the Gulf Coast has been sinking at a relative rate of more than 1.5 meters (5 feet) per century for at least the last 100 years -- a rate significantly higher than previous reports have shown.   |
Geotimes
November 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Louisiana's Marshland Mess Even before the past season's devastating hurricanes, Louisiana's wetlands were in rough shape. More than a century of building dams, levees and canals to control the Mississippi River changed the wetlands, limiting sediment and leading to soil compaction from the loss of vegetation. |
Geotimes
August 2007
Megan Sever |
Restoring the River Since Katrina struck, one thing has become clear, researchers say: Restoration of the natural system is of paramount importance to saving New Orleans in the long run, and the time to act is now. |
Scientific American
October 24, 2005
Mark Fischetti |
Flood Control Protecting against the Next Katrina: Wetlands mitigate flooding, but are they too damaged in the gulf? |
Geotimes
August 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Hurricane Katrina Hits Hard One of the largest hurricanes to make landfall in the U.S. Gulf Coast region since Hurricane Camille in 1969, Hurricane Katrina left a trail of devastation behind it as it touched down in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. |
Geotimes
October 2006
Megan Sever |
Pinpointing Louisiana's Natural Sinking Although scientists have yet to agree on a rate, new research is shedding light on exactly what could be causing Louisiana's sinking. For residents of the hurricane-prone state, such information cannot come soon enough. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2006 |
Now What? The lessons of Katrina |
Geotimes
August 2006
Megan Sever |
When Levees Fail Many of the levees in the United States were built more than a century ago to protect farmland, and have been negligibly, if at all, maintained. For New Orleans, such a lesson came too late, but the city can still plan for the future. |
Geotimes
January 2007 |
Geomedia IMAX film Hurricane on the Bayou storms into wetland issues... Book Review: Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War II by Joshua Hammer... |
Popular Mechanics
August 21, 2008
Emily Gertz |
Desert Storm Watch: Scientists Observe Saharan Dust to Predict the Next Big Hurricane Season A University of Wisconsin researcher and his team have connected the dry, windswept plains of the Sahara to the intensity of the Atlantic hurricane season. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2013
Dave Levitan |
Laser Eyes Spy a Big Melt in the Arctic Airborne altimeters yield a disturbing picture of polar ice loss |
Popular Mechanics
October 2006
Jim Gorman Diagrams |
Future Shocks Think mother nature has dealt us her worst? Think again. Here are five natural disasters poised to strike the United States, and why they will be like nothing we have ever seen... How to ride out an emergency... |
Geotimes
September 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Water Covers New Orleans As Hurricane Katrina dissipated on its way toward the northeastern United States on Tuesday, the threat only grew for this and other Gulf towns. Monday afternoon's seeming reprieve in New Orleans evaporated as two breached levees flooded the city. |
Smithsonian
October 2006
Anne Bolen |
Life in the Field - Frozen in Time Glaciers in the Pacific Northwest have recorded hundreds of years of climate history, helping researchers plot how quickly the planet is warming. |
Scientific American
July 2008
Peter Brown |
NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008 |
Dust-Devil Dynamo Natural electric fields can play a role in determining the amount of dust that makes it into the atmosphere, influencing weather and climate. |
D-Lib
March 2001
Michele Jacobi |
NOAA/NOS Office of Response and Restoration The Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) is the focal point in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for preventing, planning for, and responding to oil spills, releases of hazardous substances, and hazardous waste sites in coastal environments and restoring affected resources. |
Geotimes
November 2003
Naomi Lubick |
Meeting updates: particles on Mars and Earth Ripples and dunes on Mars... The future of dust on Earth |
Chemistry World
May 9, 2013
Simon Hadlington |
Mineral dust plays key role in cloud formation, chemistry Mineral dust that swirls up into the atmosphere from Earth's surface plays a far more important role in both cloud formation and cloud chemistry than was previously realized. |
Popular Mechanics
March 11, 2008
Jennifer Bogo |
Report Sees Dire Future for Warming's Impact on U.S. Transport Changing water levels and warmer temperatures will necessitate major adaptations from transportation officials if the United States wants to protect its systems of travel by air, land and sea. |
National Real Estate Investor
October 1, 2005
Margaret Leonard |
Rebuilding After Katrina Investors and operators of more than 10,000 businesses in New Orleans have lost uncounted millions. The same storm also brought opportunities worth billions in redevelopment and restoration of a city. |
Science News
May 22, 2004 |
From the May 19, 1934, issue Chemical From Wells Makes Ship of the Sky... Great Dust Storm Formed From Corn Belt Topsoil... With Electron Microscopes we May Observe the Unseen... |
Popular Mechanics
July 1, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
5 Climate Studies That Don't Live Up to Their Hype A leading climate scientist argues that overbroad claims by some researchers -- coupled with overblown reporting in the media -- can undermine the public's understanding of climate issues. |
Popular Mechanics
March 15, 2010
Trevor Williams |
Iceberg Forensics: Predicting the Planet's Future With Antarctic Ice Something new is happening with the ice streams and glaciers. They are getting thinner, and they are getting thinner because they are speeding up. |
Geotimes
June 2004
Sara Pratt |
9/11 Clears Skies for Climate Studies The dust and sand storms that have plagued Asia for millennia are becoming more frequent and intense, with some areas experiencing a fivefold increase in the last 50 years. |
Geotimes
November 2007
Jim Gibeaut |
Coastal Development: The Galveston Case, Part II Whatever the choice, it is clear that we need to build into our policies a dynamic that matches the changing conditions along our coast, and we need to make sure the public is aware of the situation. |
Chemistry World
April 19, 2009
Sarah Houlton |
Lead-lined clouds Lead in the atmosphere has a direct effect on how clouds form, according to research by an international team of scientists. |
Salon.com
July 27, 2000
David Hill |
Sharps & Flats Woody Guthrie's "Dust Bowl Ballads" drew the road map for Bob Dylan and Ramblin' Jack. A reissue recaptures the parched glory. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Willie D. Jones |
New Sensor Shows Electric Nature of Dust Devils Electric field sensor could help in climate studies and electronics manufacturing too. |
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. |
Scientific American
September 2008
Krista West |
Researchers hone seismic skills to peer inside glaciers Seismic data enable scientists to peer inside melting glaciers before they calve |
Geotimes
February 2007
Cassandra Willyard |
Surprise! Stardust Lands Actual Stardust The dust is clearing around a cosmic puzzle that has long piqued the interest of astronomers. Tiny grains of dust, no larger than the width of a human hair, are revealing the conditions in which the solar system, and perhaps life, got its start. |
Geotimes
December 2003
Megan Sever |
A year of global ice observations Scientists are now getting the most accurate view ever of changes in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. The new maps, using NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, are shedding light on the processes controlling these ice masses, which comprise 75 percent of Earth's freshwater. |
BusinessWeek
May 19, 2011
Marianne Stigset |
In Greenland, an Arctic Growth Story The Danish possession has high hopes for this summer's oil drilling. |
Geotimes
November 2003
Sara Pratt |
Stuck between a rock and a cold place A stalagmite mined from an island cave in the Indian Ocean suggests that the ages currently assigned to the gold standard of ancient climate records -- the Greenland ice cores -- need revision for the period between 55,000 and 42,000 years ago. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2011
Paden et al. |
A Next-Generation Ice Radar Scientists can now probe polar ice sheets better than ever using synthetic-aperture radar |
Outside
August 2003
Peter Heller |
Good Old Boy Gone Good He grew up poaching alligators, he sells Cadillacs, and his friends run oil companies. But saving the bayous of Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin is Harold Schoeffler's number-one deal. |
Wired
April 2003
Evan Ratliff |
The Green Wall Of China Desert storms from Central Asia are leaving a trail of global destruction. Now Beijing is drawing a line in the sand. |
Geotimes
July 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
African Dust Helps Islands Bloom A new study suggests that African dust helps build soil on some Western Atlantic islands that would otherwise lack enough fertile land for crops, including sugar cane, to thrive. |
Chemistry World
April 23, 2009
Hayley Birch |
Wetlands caused ancient methane belch Air trapped in ancient ice has revealed the likely source of the sudden spike in atmospheric methane concentrations that occurred at the end of the last ice age |
Outside
August 2009
McKenzie Funk |
Greenland Rising Global warming isn't bad news for everybody. In Greenland, the big melt could mean a flood of new revenue from mineral and oil deposits -- previously trapped under ice. |
