June 20, 2018
Energy Notes: January 2010-2011
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: Tantalum
John F. Papp, a mineral commodity specialist for the U.S. Geological Survey, compiled the following information about tantalum, one of the most …
June 7, 2018
Travels in Geology: Soaking up the Dead Sea: A trip to Israel's salty sea is a geological and historical delight
Almost anywhere you turn in Israel, you’re bound to find fascinating geology or the remnants of ancient human history. Some of the best of both …
June 7, 2018
Getting There and Getting Around Israel
Flights from the United States to Israel arrive in Tel Aviv, a cosmopolitan resort city known for its restaurants, clubs and beaches roughly in …
June 7, 2018
The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: Earthquakes or Volcanoes?
The name of the Dead Sea’s Mount Sodom comes from the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah. The Old Testament says God destroyed the cities with …
September 1, 2017
Down to Earth With: Evan Thomas
At age 16, Evan Thomas made a list of 100 life goals — his bucket list. At only 27 years old, he’s done pretty well so far: Graduate college with …
June 23, 2016
Benchmarks: May 31, 1889: Johnstown flood kills thousands
“It seemed to me as if all the destructive elements of the Creator had been turned loose at once in that awful current of water.” That’s how Col. …
January 20, 2012
Science and the social media
How blogs, Twitter and other social media tools are changing conversations about scientific research Blogs, Twitter, Facebook and other social …
January 5, 2012
Tracking Yellowstone's Activity
New technologies track the feverish supervolcano in real time This story has been modified since it was originally published in EARTH. Over the …
January 5, 2012
Tracking trace elements and isotopes in the oceans
A report from the GEOTRACES cruise across the Atlantic For decades, scientists have been trying to piece together the enormously complicated …
January 5, 2012
Strategies to meet our water and energy needs: Insight from a Texas "Treemap"
"This is our generation’s Sputnik moment," declared President Barack Obama in the 2011 State of the Union address, challenging the nation to …
January 5, 2012
New federal guidelines aim to combat bat-killing fungus
On May 17, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released a new nationwide plan to curb the spread of White Nose Syndrome (WNS), the mysterious …
January 5, 2012
Mysterious disease sounds the death knell for bats
These are dark days for bats. Hundreds of thousands of tiny white-nosed bats have died over the past few winters, falling to cave floors across …
January 5, 2012
Japan's megaquake and killer tsunami: How did this happen?
On March 11, 2011, at 2:46 p.m. local time, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake ruptured a 500-kilometer-long fault zone off the northeast coast of Japan. …
January 5, 2012
Hazardous Living: Italian seismologists on trial for manslaughter
Last June, EARTH reported that seven Italian scientists were under investigation and might be charged with manslaughter for not predicting (and …
January 5, 2012
Don't forget about the Christchurch earthquake: Lessons learned from disaster
In the aftermath of the devastating magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami that struck the Tohoku region of Japan on March 11, attention quickly …
January 5, 2012
D-Day's Legacy: Remnants of invasion linger in beach sands
Before dawn on June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops began storming the shores of Normandy, France, in what would be the turning point of …