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Geotimes December 2005 Donald C. Swanson	Don't Try to Fool Mother Nature Protecting and maintaining a city on a delta is confronting the dynamics of sediment and water responding to gravity, a basic force in the universe. Gravity-driven phenomena dominate the delta environment and are major guns in Mother Nature's arsenal.
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.
Geotimes October 2003	Geophenomena New addition to the Aleutian family... Yellowstone geysers heat up... First dead zone forecast... etc.
Geotimes March 2005 Sara Pratt	Dead Zones Off New Jersey Researchers say coastal hypoxia is caused by ocean processes, not river runoff, that are responsible for the oxygen depletion and the resulting hazards that the events pose to bottom-dwelling organisms.
Geotimes December 2003 Megan Sever	La Nina controls Amazon floodplain A team of geologists linked the floodplain depositional layers to rapidly rising floods that occur during La Nina events in Bolivia. Rather than corresponding to annual flooding events in the rainforests, each large sediment influx corresponded to a La Nina event in the historic record.
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?
Geotimes January 2005 Naomi Lubick	Grand Canyon Floods On Nov. 21, the Department of the Interior approved a release of water from the Glen Canyon Dam in an attempt to rebuild the beaches and other sedimentary environments.
Geotimes October 2006 Jennifer Yauck	River Bends Reveal Past Quakes The connection between river courses and earthquake activity is allowing seismologists to look at past earthquakes along a Midwestern fault zone with new perspective, and could enable them to more accurately assess future earthquake risk in the Mississippi region.
Geotimes January 2004	Geomedia Book review: Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth by Andrew H. Knoll... New Nevada elements maps...
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.
BusinessWeek May 25, 2011 Duane Stanford	Trade Slows as the Mississippi River Floods Delivery times for shipments of grain and other valuable commodities are slowing as floods raise the level of the Mississippi.
Reactive Reports Issue 42 David Bradley	River Deep An ancient and dried up riverbed in north-eastern Ohio prevents a pool of chemical waste from infiltrating the Ohio River
Geotimes December 2003 Megan Sever	Skiing and mining intersect in Colorado A paper published in the Sept. 23 Eos by researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the Northwest Colorado Council of Governments explores the relationship between river contamination from abandoned mines and snowmaking activities at ski resorts in a state where tourism provides $9 billion annually.
Popular Mechanics February 2006 Susan Tweit	Can't We Just Blow It Up? The world's biggest dam removal will return Washington's Elwha River to its free-flowing state. But the colossal three-year project proves there's a lot more to deconstruction than tons of TNT.
Geotimes May 2004 Lisa Robert	Hijacking the Rio Grande: Aquifer Mining in an Arid River Basin A major dilemma for the modern Southwest: a choice between a future driven by rampant growth or by an obligation to hydrologic reality.
Popular Mechanics June 19, 2008 Emily Gertz	As Flood Waters Rise, Geeks Aim to Save Midwest With 3D Rig Digital models of possible flood outcomes might just help prevent developers from building in the most vulnerable spots around the country's biggest and most dangerous river.
Popular Mechanics March 2006	Now What? The lessons of Katrina
Science News February 16, 2008	Timeline: From the February 12, 1938, issue Towers reach skyward to start radio waves... River took hardest way, formed Yellowstone Canyon... Years of drought coming to great basin, is warning...
BusinessWeek August 12, 2010 Peter Coy	The Coast Is Not Clear Though the BP oil spill's impact is much less severe than feared, long-term threats remain: wetlands destruction, dead zones, and climate change. They make the spill look almost minor.
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 August 2004 Naomi Lubick	New Water Model for Southwest According to a new model by a researcher working in the New Mexico water basin, the seven-year drought that affected the area in the 1950s may finally be making its way into the Rio Grande.
Chemistry World August 13, 2015 Rebecca Trager	Environment agency accident releases toxic mine waste into US rivers The US Environmental Protection Agency's botched investigation of an abandoned mine in Colorado has led to more than 11 million liters of water contaminated with metals entering major US waterways.
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.
Mother Jones December 2000 Bill Donahue	The Same River Twice It's been a horror movie set, a sewer, a flood control ditch. Now environmentalists, and some politicians, are pushing a novel idea: They want to turn the Los Angeles River into... a river...
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 2006 Jennifer Yauck	Tree Rings Reveal Overestimate in Western Water When a severe drought hit the Colorado River Basin area between 2000 and 2004, people began to question whether current practices for managing the river would be adequate for managing future water demands. One recent study suggests an answer: probably not.
The Motley Fool August 27, 2009 David Lee Smith	Investing in the Gulf of Mexico's Deepwater Growth If you have an interest in the energy sector, don't miss BP's Gulf of Mexico act.
Outside August 2003 Misty Blakesley	Ecotourism Adventure Travel - Water in the Balance Water issues chronically become water wars. Here are some collisions in progress--from bang-ups over how to divide spoils to clashes over big cleanups--that need to be resolved in the years ahead.
Scientific American October 2008 Barbara Juncosa	Climate Change May be Sparking New and Bigger "Dead Zones" Climate change seems to be starving some waters of oxygen.
Smithsonian September 2007 Whitney Dangerfield	Snapshot: Yangtze River A virtual vacation along China's mighty waterway.
Geotimes November 2003 Sara Pratt	Tracing the Navajo sandstone The thick Navajo sandstone in Zion National Park is one of the largest wind-deposited formations in the geologic record. Geologists have devised a new way to determine the origin of such sedimentary rocks.
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The Motley Fool February 9, 2007 Jack Uldrich	I Love Headwaters This alternative energy company will begin tapping into some nice revenue flows from different sources. Investors, take note.