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  • July 2008

    • Moon Rocks Still Giving Up Gritty Secrets

      New York Times  |  Jul 8, 08 6:00 AM CDT

      Moon Rocks Still Giving Up Gritty Secrets

      (Newser) - Almost 40 years after Apollo astronauts brought samples of the moon back to Earth, the extraterrestrial rocks are still yielding new information, the New York Times reports. In addition to attention from the Johnson Space Center, where they reside, samples are mailed out—on loan only, and usually less than a gram—to 40 or 50 research groups around the world each year. More »

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      moon  • solar system  • geology  • Apollo missions  • lunar exploration  • crater  • moon rock

  • April 2008

    • Mars Photos Suggest Ancient Hot Springs

      Washington Post  |  Apr 28, 08 3:45 AM CDT

      Mars Photos Suggest Ancient Hot Springs

      (Newser) - Scientists have found what look like the remains of hot springs on Mars—a sign life could have existed there, reports the Washington Post . Sophisticated equipment returned images of “mounds” that appear remarkably similar to springs found in Australia, according to scientists. They appear to have dried up tens of millions of years ago--fairly recently, in planetary terms. More »

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      NASA  • space  • Mars  • geology  • images

    • Mild 5.2 Earthquake Shakes Up Chicago

      Chicago Tribune  |  Apr 18, 08 7:45 AM CDT

      Mild 5.2 Earthquake Shakes Up Chicago

      (Newser) - A moderate earthquake in southern Illinois was enough to wake far-off Chicago-area residents this morning, but no major damage was reported, the Chicago Tribune notes. The shake-up reached 5.2 on the Richter scale, shy of an area record of 5.4, but enough to move furniture. “For people in central Illinois, this is a big deal. It's not like California,” said a local man. Residents of Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Des Moines also felt the tremor. More »

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      Chicago  • earthquake  • Illinois  • natural disaster  • geology

  • March 2008

    • Top 10 Planet Earth Puzzlers

      LiveScience  |  Mar 16, 08 3:12 PM CDT

      Top 10 Planet Earth Puzzlers

      (Newser) - Forget deep-space exploration; even basic questions about Earth still have scientists scratching their heads, LiveScience reports. A panel of geologists and planetary scientists lists its top lingering mysteries. How did Earth form into such a distinct body? What happened during Earth's first 500 million years? How did life start on this planet? What’s happening inside Earth and how does this affect the surface? More »

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      earthquake  • Earth  • aerospace  • biology  • scientists  • geology  • universe  • volcanoes  • Earth's interior

  • February 2008

    • New Worry: Global Soil Change

      National Geographic  |  Feb 8, 08 6:20 PM CST

      New Worry: Global Soil Change

      (Newser) - Earth's changing soils appear less able to support farming and plant and animal diversity because of human activity, a study shows. "Global soil change," which is occurring most severely in Africa and Asia, has a heavier hand in climate change than previously thought, National Geographic reports. Degraded soils lose the ability to store carbon, putting billions of additional tons into the air. More »

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      climate change  • global warming  • environment  • agriculture  • study  • population  • geology  • erosion

  • January 2008

    • Earth's Mystery Core Plumbed

      Der Spiegel  |  Jan 27, 08 9:32 AM CST

      Earth's Mystery Core Plumbed

      (Newser) - Climate change has sparked heated debate about the Earth’s surface, but a controversial new theory is directing scientists to its core, Der Spiegel reports. To explain why contintental plates drift on the surface of the Earth's molten mantle, Maruyama Shigenori, a leading geophysicist, argues that continents actually have life cycles. Old, cold plates on continental fringes sink to “plate graveyards” deep in the Earth’s mantle, and then rise again, creating volcanoes. More »

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      Japan  • Earth  • geology  • volcanoes  • tectonic plates  • Earth's interior  • molten rock  • continents

    • Geologists See Earth in New 'Anthropocene Age'

      Canada.com  |  Jan 24, 08 4:17 AM CST

      Geologists See Earth in New 'Anthropocene Age'

      (Newser) - Humanity's impact on the planet over the last 200 years has been so vast that geologists are proposing to label it the start of a new geological era, Canada.com reports. Textbooks label these times as the Holocene era, which began 12,000 years ago, but scientists argue that carbon pollution, urbanization, nuclear fallout and other traces of human existence should mark the start of a  new epoch. More »

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      science  • Earth  • geology

  • November 2007

    • Antarctica Gets High-Def Map

      MSNBC  |  Nov 28, 07 1:21 PM CST

      Antarctica Gets High-Def Map

      (Newser) - A new high-definition, real-color interactive map of Antarctica unveiled yesterday will give a bird's-eye view of the frozen continent, MSNBC reports. But the virtual tour isn't just for pointy-headed scientists—it's also available free online to anyone. Satellite imagery was collected into a 100-billion-pixel database that is zoomable and searchable. More »

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      Antarctica  • geology  • satellite images  • maps

    • Creation Geologists Rock World

      New York Times  |  Nov 25, 07 7:10 AM CST

      Creation Geologists Rock World

      (Newser) - Today's creationist geologists are not who the secular may think. Numerous and thriving, many hold advanced degrees from top universities, and are making evangelicals more open to scientific evidence. And they are experts for the nearly half of Americans who believe God created the Earth in the last 10,000 years, the New York Times reports. More »

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      flood  • Christianity  • evangelicals  • evolution  • Bible  • fossil  • geology  • creationism  • Noah's Ark  • Christian right

  • June 2007

    • Missing: Five-Acre Lake

      CNN  |  Jun 22, 07 4:25 AM CDT

      Missing: Five-Acre Lake

      (Newser) - A 100-foot-deep lake in the Chilean Andes vanished sometime between March and May, and scientists are stumped. The best guess in the case of the missing body of water is that it drained through cracks in the lakebed, but geologists have no idea where those cracks, usually caused by earthquakes, could have come from. More »

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      science  • Chile  • geology  • lake  • Andes

  • March 2007

    • Miners Dig for Gold in Belgian Museum

      Wall Street Journal  |  Mar 20, 07 11:33 AM CDT

      Miners Dig for Gold in Belgian Museum

      (Newser) - A Belgian museum filled with stacks of faded geological maps of the Congo—a former colony—has become an unlikely mecca for mining companies searching for new deposits. With prices soaring and on-site exploration impeded by armed militias, drillers are eager to shell out hefty research fees to the Royal Museum of Central Africa.    More »

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      Belgium  • Democratic Republic of Congo  • museums  • geology  • mining  • colonialism  • maps

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