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Meteorite Strikes Peru! On Sept. 15, 2007, a meteorite crashed into a small village in northern Peru. As word of the meteorite spread, meteorite hunters and geologists alike descended on the region to collect pieces of the space rock and to study what it left behind. Lionel E. Jackson Jr., Peter Brown, Jay Melosh and Dolores Hill |
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Storm Soundings: New Technologies for Tracking Hurricanes Exploring Karst in Guilin, China |
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Biogeochemist and cave diver Stephanie Schwabe
GEOMEDIA
Books: The Dark — But Fascinating — Side of Science
Games: BP Helps the Sims Go Green
Books: Ten Minutes on Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet
Web: Sharing Across Borders
BENCHMARKS
July 11, 1979: NASA’s Skylab Tumbles Down Print Exclusive
TRENDS & INNOVATIONS
Charcoal: Out of the Grill and into the Ground
Charcoal is making a comeback, but not where you might think: Instead of putting it into the grill, some scientists are advocating putting it into the ground to boost soil fertility and to sequester carbon.
Cassandra Willyard
EDUCATION & OUTREACH
False Alarms Foster Real Skills Print Exclusive
Volcanology courses prepare students for understanding the science of a volcano, but most don’t prepare students for dealing with the human aspect of a volcanic crisis. One teacher is working to change that.
Nicole Branan
Geoengineering: It’s Not a Panacea
Geoengineering is not a cure-all for a warming climate. In fact, such measures may create more problems than they solve.
Alan Robock
A COMMENT ON ...
Geoengineering: Perhaps Palliative Medicine
Though geoengineering is more of a painkiller than a cure for the ills of global warming, perhaps it can relieve some of the symptoms while we take the necessary steps to reduce emissions.
Ken Caldeira
GEOLOGIC COLUMN
Whole Lot of Shaking Going On
New Mac laptops come equipped with motion sensors, which, along with freely available software, are all you need to create your own seismic station.
Lisa A. Rossbacher
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ON THE COVERA child sits near a makeshift hut in Myanmar following the devastating Cyclone Nargis, which struck the country in early May. Photo by KHIN MAUNG WIN/AFP/Getty Images.
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