Earth Sciences

Friday Fossil

down, was another row of appendages. So they were legs after all. Everyone is fairly happy with this ...

Blog Post - Oliver Knevitt - Jun 3 2011 - 1:30pm

Welcome To The Anthropocene

run-off from agricultural areas cause algal blooms, which decay, using up all the oxygen in the water. ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - Jul 4 2011 - 12:02pm

Defining Dallas: Drought And The Heat Island Effect

measurement on the ponds where the primary vegetation is cattail... all but one of those are dry now.) So ...

Article - Mel. White - Aug 25 2011 - 2:34pm

Propanoplosaurus Marylandicus: A Win For Open (And Citizen) Science

"We didn't know much about hatchling nodosaurs at all prior to this discovery," says ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 14 2011 - 10:55pm

Google Exits Alternative Energy (And Other Dodgy Ideas)

will be different.  It's ethanol all over again; only now that he is out of politics does Al Gore ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 23 2011 - 3:54pm

Argon-Argon: Improving The World's Slowest Clock

of all 'argon-argon' dating that takes place throughout the world. The results show that ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2012 - 1:00pm

Bad News For Kids: Your Favorite Dinosaur Did Not Exist

mom said, no, those are all different, there are babies of those dinosaurs found too. I assumed she ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Feb 12 2012 - 3:59pm

Shale Gas Faux Danger

their subtle efforts went all over the world.  Andrew Revkin at the Times is far more balanced that ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 6 2012 - 11:24am

The US Spent $48 Billion On Clean Energy In 2011

reclaimed the top spot among all G-20 nations, thanks to $48 billion primarily in government subsidies, but ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 11 2012 - 6:43pm

Global Warming From...Dinosaurs?

all modern sources—both natural and man-made—put together." Wilkinson, Ruxton, and Nisbet ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2012 - 1:02pm