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Geotimes
May 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Yellowstone Fires Leave Microbes Nitrogen-Hungry Researchers hot on the trail of severe fires in Yellow-stone National Park have found that the nitrogen in forest soils can be greatly affected by such fires, which occur within the region once every few hundred years, and kill most of a forest's trees.   |
Geotimes
August 2003
Lisa M. Pinsker |
In Search of the Mercury Solution Mercury contamination is a leading threat to U.S. lakes and estuaries. Some large-scale ecosystem studies are trying to get at the recent source of the problem: air pollution. |
Outside
June 2003
Douglas Gantenbein |
We're Toast Last summer, U.S. wildfires cost $1.6 billion to stop and claimed the lives of 23 firefighters. The expense and sacrifice did nothing to solve the problems of overgrown forests, misguided policies, and misspent resources. We need to get serious about rethinking the role of flame in the woods. |
Geotimes
May 2005
Naomi Lubick |
More Mercury in Unexpected Places As U.S. policy-makers debate new control measures for mercury emissions, a series of studies has painted a picture that shows mercury contamination reaches even further than previously documented. |
Scientific American
August 22, 2005
Rebecca Renner |
Mapping Mercury The existence of mercury hot spots is still under debate and is complicating government regulations. |
Chemistry World
November 29, 2012
Jon Evans |
Messenger spots Mercury performing organic chemistry Nasa's Messenger spacecraft has uncovered evidence that not only does water ice exist on the surface of the planet Mercury, but in many places this ice appears to be covered in a 10cm-thick layer of soot-like organic material. |
Geotimes
November 2003
Naomi Lubick |
Mercury transitions in the Everglades Mercury levels in fish in the Everglades have dropped substantially over the past decade, which may be directly related to the control and eventual cessation of mercury discharges by local power plants and incinerators, according to a study released this month. |
Chemistry World
September 30, 2011
Jon Cartwright |
Messenger Sheds Light on Mercury's Formation NASA's Messenger spacecraft is bringing new understanding to the question of how Mercury formed. The new information looks set to rewrite theories about the birth of the solar system's smallest planet. |
Chemistry World
October 18, 2013
Hepeng Jia |
China blamed for mercury on iconic Mount Fuji Amid a simmering row between China and Japan over an island territory dispute, new research claims that the atmosphere above Japan's iconic Mount Fuji is being polluted with mercury by Chinese industry. |
Chemistry World
May 8, 2009
Rebecca Trager |
Climbing mercury levels prompt US action The US plans to ramp up collaborative efforts with international partners to curb global mercury pollution, following new findings that mercury levels in the North Pacific Ocean have climbed approximately 30 per cent over the last 14 years. |
Geotimes
July 2003
Greg Peterson |
Cooling Mali's volcanism Geologists have recently found data to overturn the long-held belief that active volcanism was to blame for underground fires in Mali and substantially reduce the calculated risk for the region. The authors found the spontaneous combustion of buried peat layers, not magma. |
Chemistry World
December 11, 2014 |
Canadian clamp down on mercury The Canadian government is pressing ahead with new rules that will prohibit the production or importation of most products that contain mercury, or any of its compounds. |
Fast Company
April 2000
Anna Muoio |
Where There's Smoke It Helps to Have a Smoke Jumper If you spend too much of your time "putting out fires," then take some advice from master smoke jumper Wayne Williams. He'll teach you how to think clearly, to act decisively, to work precisely -- and to solve problems before they burn out of control. |
Chemistry World
August 25, 2015
Emma Stoye |
Simple chemistry saving thousands of gold miners from mercury poisoning Every year, thanks to mining practices that have persisted for centuries, huge amounts of mercury pollute the atmosphere and poison hundreds of thousands of people in some of the world's poorest countries. |
Popular Mechanics
April 8, 2008
Virginia Hughes |
5 High-Tech Firefighting Tools Headed for the Front Lines ATV-mounted power torch... Firewatch helicopters... Psychic software... Flying fire watchers... The concrete pounder... |
Geotimes
August 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Slow Boat to a Small Planet For the first time in more than three decades, scientists are going to get a close-up view of Mercury, Earth's smallest neighbor and the rocky planet closest to the sun. |
Geotimes
July 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
Mercury's Gooey Center Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, has a large core, which scientists now know is partially molten and therefore could create a magnetic field around the planet. |
Chemistry World
January 21, 2013
Maria Burke |
Global convention to limit mercury agreed Governments from around the world agreed to a global, legally-binding treaty on Saturday to limit mercury use. This is the first new major environmental treaty in over a decade. |
Geotimes
May 2005
Linda Rowan |
Clear Skies Clouded in Legislative Discontent President Bush's Clear Skies Initiative was introduced on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, 2002; however, it was not love at first sight in congressional chambers. |
Chemistry World
November 27, 2013 |
Mercury levels falls in US women Blood mercury levels in American women of childbearing age plunged between 1999 and 2010, according to new data released by the EPA. This may reflect changes in fish consumption or reduced power plant emissions. |
Popular Mechanics
January 18, 2008
Jennifer Bogo |
Inside NASA's Mega Flyby of Mercury's Dark Side NASA's new Messenger spacecraft will conduct a full scientific investigation of Mercury's surface. |
Smithsonian
May 2005
Kevin Krajick |
Fire In The Hole Raging in mines from Pennsylvania to China, coal fires threaten towns, poison air and water, and add to global warming. |
Chemistry World
October 24, 2013
Ned Stafford |
Global treaty on mercury emissions signed A global treaty designed to cut emissions of the toxic heavy metal mercury into the environment, took another major step forward with formal adoption earlier this month. |
Geotimes
November 2004
Sara Pratt |
Fish Advisories on the Rise A new report from the Environmental Protection Agency shows an all-time high in the number of fish advisories that warn of contamination from toxins, including PCBs and mercury, despite a simultaneous decrease in U.S. emissions. |
National Defense
August 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
Mercury Contamination Could Slow Down Destruction of Chemical Stockpile The Army has destroyed nearly half of the nation's chemical weapons stockpile during the past decade. But completing the second half of the job by the mandated deadline of April 2012 will be tougher than previously expected. |
BusinessWeek
April 23, 2007
Gene G. Marcial |
Tougher Pollution Rules Are Buoying ADA-ES Control of carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants has long been a hot topic, but states are now slapping limits on mercury output, too. And investors are watching. |
Popular Mechanics
December 29, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
Just How Toxic Was the Tennessee Coal Sludge Spill? Coal fly ash is nasty stuff. According an Environmental Protection Agency report, coal plants produce 160 pounds of fly ash for every ton of coal that they burn. |
CRM
July 2004
David Myron |
Customers Serve Each Other in Online Communities Mercury Interactive wanted to tap a valuable group of IT professionals to create a forum in which partners and customers could share technical information. It selected Participate Systems to implement tools to work in conjunction with Mercury's Web technology solution from BroadVision. |
Chemistry World
October 29, 2013
Tim Wogan |
Mercury's dark influence on art European researchers used density functional theory and other theoretical techniques to calculate how mercury might end up on the surface of degraded paint. |
