Geological Items in the News
What is the latest news?
Current news with an environmental slant
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For daily updates on the state of the planet, check out Earth Alert from Discovery.com.
December - New lakes in Egypt - Fed by unusually high levels of rainfall and water overflowing from the Aswan High Dam
- Growth in "mega-cities" is altering the landscape and the atmosphere in such a way as to curtail normal photosynthesis. Look at urban
sprawl by monitoring the emission of light from cities at night
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Geological evidence for biblical and other myths about a worldwide FLOOD. Investigation of these legends includes using a submersible. There have been a number of news stories on this.
Robert Ballard, the guy who is looking at the bottom of the Black Sea.
Old rocks, old life - A quest to test theory on Earth's first life - Could the sample be 3.85 billion years old, the oldest yet? A trip to Greenland could tell.
Another article on the topic: Vestiges of a Beginning: Clues to the Emergent Biosphere Recorded in the Oldest Known Sedimentary Rocks
Serious earthquake in Japan - photos
Drought in North America
Coastal Issues - May 3, 2000 - East coast tsunami