June 20, 2018
Energy Notes: October 2008-2009
U.S. Oil & Petroleum Imports (millions of barrels per day) Oil and petroleum imports data are preliminary numbers taken from the American …
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June 14, 2018
Mineral Resource of the Month: Asbestos
Robert Virta, mineral commodity specialist for the U.S. Geological Survey, prepared the following information on asbestos, a mineral commodity …
May 23, 2018
Down to Earth With: Mike Gallagher
Mike Gallagher is not your typical science educator. After spending three years as a researcher and field geologist with the U.S. Geological …
October 26, 2015
Conjunction injunction: Recent and future planetary alignments
February 1962: The five planets visible to the naked eye, as well as the sun and moon, all appeared within 17 degrees of each other in the sky. A …
October 26, 2015
Benchmarks: February 4, 1962: Five planets align - but no end of the world
In the movie “2012,” released in theaters last November, an alignment of five planets in our solar system — supposedly foretold by the Mayans …
January 20, 2012
Voices: Should science dictate whether to rebuild after a natural disaster?
Move Port-au-Prince? Maybe. San Francisco and New Orleans? Never. It is common for scientists to call for the relocation of a city to a safer …
January 5, 2012
What makes a disaster? Does this blizzard count?
Blogging on EARTH Actually, this is a meta-blog: A blog about a blog. Not had enough of the snow yet? One of EARTH's regular contributors, …
January 5, 2012
Voices: If global warming is real, why is it snowing in DC?
Over the last week, I’ve heard a lot of people say, “If global warming is real, why is it still snowing in Washington, D.C.?” Well, I have a …
January 5, 2012
Termites and climate change: Here, there and everywhere?
Will climate change allow termite populations in North America to spread? As a child growing up in Iowa, every summer I looked forward to our …
January 5, 2012
Reclaiming Alberta's oil sands mines
Forest, wetlands and a lake suggest a boreal ecosystem can be rebuilt Hiking through the 104-hectare parcel of land known as Gateway Hill in the …
January 5, 2012
Hubble's pics of Pluto: Dark orange and charcoal-black
Blogging on EARTH Today NASA released new Hubble images of dwarf planet Pluto — and far from being just an icy colorless rock, the images show a …
January 5, 2012
Court rules against Army Corps in New Orleans flooding case
A district court judge ruled Wednesday that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is liable for much of the flooding in New Orleans following …
January 5, 2012
Can snowstorms be categorized like hurricanes or other hazards?
On Dec. 18, 2009, a winter storm deposited two feet of snow in a swath from the North Carolina mountains to Baltimore, Md., shutting down …