November 20, 2013
World War G: Zombies, energy and the geosciences
Editor's Note: Traditionally, EARTH has published a "highlights" or "year in review" issue at the end of the year. This year, we decided to try a …
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November 15, 2013
Bailing through the Boulder flood: One neighborhood's experience
Despite everything I learned in my sedimentology-stratigraphy class about alluvial fan deposits, and the debris flows and floods that emplace …
January 20, 2012
Crystal Ball EARTH: Natural Hazards: Reducing society's risks
The global financial disaster of 2009 has many parallels with catastrophic natural hazards. It struck pretty much without warning, its impact was …
January 20, 2012
Crystal Ball EARTH: Energy: Oil and gas around the world
Energy is a combined product of natural resources, human ingenuity and economy; it is also an engine for economic and social development. This is …
January 20, 2012
Crystal Ball EARTH: Energy: A fool's look into the future
In the 1985 classic “Back to the Future,” Doc Brown, the mad scientist played by Christopher Lloyd, queries his time-traveling visitor, Marty …
January 20, 2012
Crystal Ball EARTH: Agriculture: The future will have a different face than the past
Tomorrow’s agriculture is facing an immense challenge. By 2050, the world’s population will reach somewhere between 9 billion and 10 billion …
January 5, 2012
Highlights of 2011: New Zealand: After 8,000 aftershocks, when will it stop?
The untold story of life after a major earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand During the past year, many of the 386,000 inhabitants of New …
January 5, 2012
Crystal Ball EARTH: Space: NASA keeps watch on a changing planet
In 2009, we saw a number of changes on Earth. The average global ocean surface temperature last summer was the warmest on record. Thin seasonal …
January 5, 2012
Crystal Ball EARTH: Policy: A tale of two years
In U.S. policy, the past year was dominated by discussions of energy and climate change issues, at least in the earth sciences realm. In the …
January 5, 2012
Crystal Ball EARTH: Minerals management: The changing commodities scene
Many people would like to forget 2008. The subprime mortgage crisis came to a head and sent the world’s financial markets into a free fall. The …
January 5, 2012
Benchmarks: December 16, 1811-February 7, 1812: The New Madrid earthquakes strike the Heartland
This winter marks the bicentennial of a series of powerful intraplate earthquakes that occurred in the central United States over a two-month …