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Geotimes September 2005 Sara Pratt	Shrinking and Growing Arctic Lakes Now, in the latest addition to the growing body of evidence that global warming is significantly affecting the Arctic, two recent studies suggest that thawing permafrost is the cause of two seemingly contradictory observations -- both rapidly growing and rapidly shrinking lakes.
Geotimes May 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker	The drilling footprint on the North Slope Deciding whether or not to develop new areas, such as ANWR, will always be a trade-off. Good engineering design is usually good environmentally. Still, no matter how careful you are, if you go into an untouched area, there's nothing you can do to prevent impact other than to stay out completely.
Geotimes July 2005 Megan Sever	Carbon Leaching Out of Siberian Peat New research is showing that as temperatures rise across the Arctic, carbon once locked up in permafrost soils may begin escaping into the area's waterways.
Geotimes November 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Methane Burps Below the Ice Methane bubbles frozen in the ice of a Siberian lake offer a visible target to scientists seeking to estimate how much methane the lakes emit, now estimated at as much as five times higher than previously thought.
Geotimes May 2003	Martian Field Trips on Earth Many researchers look to Earth for examples of or contrasts to what we're seeing of the Red Planet.
Scientific American July 2008 Peter Brown	NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict.
Geotimes February 2004 Hetherington et al.	Quest for the Lost Land The search for early Americans is taking researchers to the coast of British Columbia, where a now-submerged landscape may hold clues to the first settlers' coastal migration.
Geotimes November 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Mark D. Myers: Politics, Pipelines and Permafrost The former head of the Oil and Gas Division of Alaska's Department of Natural Resources is heading back down to the lower 48 to be confirmed as the new director of the USGS.
Geotimes August 2007 Megan Sever	Restoring the River Since Katrina struck, one thing has become clear, researchers say: Restoration of the natural system is of paramount importance to saving New Orleans in the long run, and the time to act is now.
Geotimes May 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Martian Pole Boasts Icy Detail A new map of Mars' south pole revealed that the ice cap is composed almost entirely of water ice and measures up to 3.7 kilometers thick.
Geotimes March 2004	Standing water on Mars Following on the heels of an announcement two weeks ago that researchers had found direct evidence for groundwater on Mars, the Mars Exploration Rover team said yesterday that they have found evidence for standing water on the planet's surface.
Popular Mechanics March 18, 2009 Andrew Moseman	Mars Researchers Take an Arctic Road Trip This trip is meant to be a dry run for an even more extreme environment -- the surface of Mars.
Chemistry World December 19, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Carbonates Confirmed on Mars New snapshots of Mars appear to show large outcrops of carbonate-bearing rocks, indicating that regions of the Red Planet could once have been an ideal environment for life to thrive.
Geotimes June 2006 John Rowland	Coastal Maryland: On the Lookout for Ghosts, Fish and Fossils Point Lookout, Md., has beautiful coastlines along the Chesapeake Bay, where recreational opportunities abound, including boating and fishing. The region has a rich geologic and cultural history.
Geotimes March 2004 Sara Pratt	A Fresh Angle on Oil Drilling Now, horizontal drilling seems more relevant than ever. With the ongoing debate about opening up more of Alaska's North Slope to oil exploration, the discussion often turns to new technologies that may have the potential to make oil extraction more efficient, more cost effective and more environmentally sound.
Science News September 28, 2002 Janet Raloff	State of U.S. Agro-ecosystems About one-quarter of the United States' land cover, excluding Alaska, is farmed. A massive new project has just assessed this and other food-producing environments, such as coastal waters, fresh waters, and rangelands, to tally factors contributing to health.
Geotimes August 2003 Matt Shindell	Mars Express for geologists Although Mars Express largely relies on old technologies, in many ways replicating past experiments, it can only contribute to an ever-growing body of knowledge about the early history of Mars and its water, and the processes that shape the planet today.
Geotimes November 2003 James C. Gibeaut	LIDAR: Mapping a Shoreline by Laser Light The days of collecting beach profile data solely in the field are gone. Now coastal geologists are looking to the skies, using a new radar tool to study changes to the shoreline over large areas.
Geotimes October 2004	The Geoscience Vote Slippery Slope for Drilling in Alaska... Managing Federal Lands... The Evolving Debate Over Teaching Evolution... Funding and the Fate of NASA... Climate Tipping Point... etc.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Saswato R. Das	Terraforming Mars The renewed focus on Mars has rejuvenated the idea of terraforming Mars, which once belonged to the realm of science fiction, but is becoming increasingly possible today.
Smithsonian October 2005 Scott Wallace	ANWR: The Great Divide The renewed debate over drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge hits home for the two Native groups nearest the nature preserve.
Geotimes August 2007	Geomedia BOOKS: Crafting Water Policy in the Great Lakes Basin: The Great Lakes Water Wars... Hit the Road on a Geo-Vacation: A Summer Reading Lineup Book review -- Homo Britannicus, by Chris Stringer... etc.
Geotimes May 2005 Naomi Lubick	Lots of Water on Mars New mineralogical data and pictures of landforms on Mars show that Earth's rocky neighbor once had a lot of water -- but various interpretations of the data differ on when and where that water may have been.
Science News July 31, 2004	Hurricane Season The U.S. Geological Survey offers a Web site devoted to the impact of hurricanes and extreme storms on coastal regions of the United States.
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick	Great Lakes of Antarctica Two "great lakes," each more than 1,000 square kilometers in area and buried deep under Antarctic ice, are giving scientists a new view of the continent and how such large lakes formed there.
Geotimes January 2004 Sara Pratt	Green minerals on the Red Planet Contrary to the prevailing idea that Mars once sustained a warm, wet climate similar to Earth's, new evidence shows that the planet may have been dry and cold for much of its history.
Scientific American August 2008 Philip Yam	New Close-Ups on Mars, Courtesy of Phoenix The Mars Phoenix lander became Earth's sixth successful visitor to the surface of the Red Planet.
Geotimes September 2003 Greg Peterson	A muddy picture for the Great Lakes Lake level is just one of 43 indicators of lake health described in an EPA report that together paint a mixed picture of the lakes -- noting some environmental gains but also persistent problems.
Popular Mechanics September 2006	Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds.
BusinessWeek July 17, 2006 John Carey	Business On A Warmer Planet Rising temperatures and later winters are already costing millions. Here's how some companies are adapting to the new reality.
Geotimes July 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Titanic Methane Mystery Solved? Planetary scientists discovered dozens of lakes, some connected by river-like channels, at Titan's north pole. Researchers suggest that the lakes could hold enough liquid methane to resupply the Saturnian moon's atmosphere with methane gas.
Geotimes April 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Ocean Budget Surges Under the fiscal year 2008 budget request, priority ocean projects would receive a budget increase totaling $143 million, countering the otherwise flat budget for earth science.
Wired September 2002	Destination: Mars Where would you stake your claim on the great desert planet? Oliver Morton, author of the new book Mapping Mars, asks the experts.
IDB America April 2008 Dan Drosdoff	Barbados Priority: Protecting the Coastline Improvements and investments have succeeded in stabilizing the Barbados coastline, but the rehabilitation and shoreline protection process is continuous, and the possibilities of setbacks are a constant menace.
Popular Mechanics August 2007 Erik Sofge	NASA's New Rover to Looks for More Water on Mars The robot invasion of Mars will continue when the unmanned Phoenix Mars Lander touches down in the planet's northern polar region next year. I
Geotimes January 2004 Naomi Lubick	Mars Update: Opportunity lands Two rovers now inhabit Mars, after the latest of NASA's robot explorers, Opportunity, landed safely over the weekend. Following a brief hiccup last week when its twin went momentarily silent, Opportunity touched down on Saturday night, half a planet away from Spirit.
Geotimes March 2003 Matthew Shindell	Pictures of snow from the Red Planet Exactly how you carve gullies in the Martian environment is the million dollar question. Planetary geologist Phil Christensen of Arizona State University proposed that snow is the answer.
Geotimes November 2006 Megan Sever	Earthquakes, Tsunamis Strike Japan A magnitude-8.3 earthquake struck off the Kuril Islands between Japan and Russia, followed by a series of strong aftershocks, at least four of which were above magnitude 6.0, according to the USGS.
Chemistry World November 20, 2013 Emma Stoye	NASA probe sets off for Mars NASA's latest Mars mission -- the Maven (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) orbiter -- has begun its 10-month journey to the red planet after its successful launch this week from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, US.
Geotimes May 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Bush to Nominate New Director for U.S. Geological Survey Dirk Kempthorne was nominated as Secretary of the Interior, after Gale Norton resigned from the position March 10. Now, in the latest shakeup in the U.S. Department of the Interior, the USGS might soon be under new leadership.
Popular Mechanics May 27, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	Phoenix Lander Doesn't Crash, Snaps Pix of Mars (With Gallery!) NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully touched down on Sunday night in an unexplored region near the Martian north pole.
Chemistry World May 2, 2006	Chilling Warnings on Receding Permafrost The annual loss of around 1% of the world's permafrost areas will trigger the release of more greenhouse gases, starting a vicious circle that could make global warming even worse than anticipated, scientists recently warned.
Geotimes August 2006	Summer Roadtrip: Ferrying Through the Inside Passage In case you think "boat" and "roadtrip" don't mix, you should learn about the Alaska Marine Highway. Glaciers are one of the first things to notice along your trek southward along Alaska's Inside Passage.
Geotimes June 2005 Megan Sever	Quake Shakes Chile A magnitude-7.8 temblor rocked northern Chile and was felt throughout parts of Peru and Bolivia, including in the capital city of La Paz, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The quake was centered in the remote and mostly unpopulated northern Andes region of Tarapaca.
Geotimes October 2003 Naomi Lubick	Water clues from martian carbonates For the first time, scientists have convincingly detected small yet possibly widespread amounts of carbonate minerals in the dust on Mars' surface. The findings provide new hints about water on Mars, as well as the history of the planet's atmosphere.
Outside April 2010 Steven Rinella	Go Big or Go Home Cruise ships and wildlife buses? The tourist staples miss the point of Alaska: It's the last real place to find an epic, crowd-free adventure on American soil.
Geotimes December 2005 Megan Sever	Halting Exploding Lakes It sounds like a bad horror movie: exploding killer lakes. But such lakes are a reality in Cameroon, Africa. Scientists there are developing a solution, however, to stop the natural hazard.
Chemistry World November 9, 2012 Laura Howes	No methane on Mars, says Curiosity The idea that there was life on Mars has been dealt a blow after analysis of the planet's atmosphere found little to no methane.