Revolutionary C[O.sub.2] maps zoom in on sources.
A new, high-resolution, interactive map of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels has found that they are not all where we thought. "For example, we've been attributing too many emissions to the northeastern United States, and it's looking like the southeastern U.S. is a much larger source than we...

Preparing a new generation of citizens and scientists to face earth's future.
How Much will global temperatures rise over the next century? How fast will ice sheets on Antarctica and Greenland melt and raise global sea level? Will rising temperature and acidification of the oceans extinguish corals and other endangered marine ecosystems? Will global warming cause hurricanes more powerful than Andrew...

The maybes of maple; Syrup producers, farmers, meteorologists wonder about weather changes.
Byline: Bill Fortier Harrison A. Achilles of Brookfield and John W. Freeman of Brimfield have been making maple syrup together since 1990. They know sugaring weather: Days in the upper 30s and low 40s with nights around 20 degrees are prime maple sap-producing conditions, they...

Collegiate & senior divisons: section chairperson(s) listed for each section.
Agriculture (Senior) Section Chairmen: Dr. Michael T. Aide, Southeast Missouri State University; Mr. Mack Wilson, Southeast Missouri State University D. Dunn * and G. Stevens, Univ. of Missouri-Delta Research Center, Portageville, MO 63873. POTASSIUM FERTILIZATION ON RICE IN MISSOURI. A rice study was...

Georgia Academy of Science eighty-third Annual Meeting Georgia Perimeter College Lawrenceville, GA March 24-25, 2006 program - Part 1.
POSTERS B-Atrium ONGOING BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF MANDIBULAR VARIATION IN SELECTED DYTISCIDAE (COLEOPTERA) LARVAE, Christy C. Cecil *, W. P. Wall, and E. H. Barman AN EVALUATION OF THE PREFERENCE OF THE YELLOW BELLIED- SAPSUCKER FOR THE HOPHORNBEAM OVER THE IRONWOOD **, Catrice Hayes...

The sky is falling! Or is it? Modern-day chicken littles would like you to believe that the sky is falling--or, more precisely, that the atmosphere is dangerously overheating. But they are wrong.
The steady stream of scary scenarios about global warming and its supposed cataclysmic consequences hasn't abated. It continues because its purveyors have an agenda that encompasses much more than environmental concerns. Those who insist that human beings, especially Americans, are endangering the future of mankind by causing the Earth's...

Divine Wind: The Hurricane in History, Art, and Science.
DIVINE WIND: The Hurricane in History, Art, and Science KERRY A. EMANUEL It is said that a 17th-century hurricane led William Shakespeare to write "The Tempest." If so, the timing of that storm means that it was probably also responsible for the British colonization of Bermuda, which...

A game of climate chicken: can EPA regulate greenhouse gases before nthe U.S. Senate ratifies the Kyoto Protocol?
I. INTRODUCTION In the face of strong opposition to ratification of the Kyoto Protocol,(1) the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has indicated a willingness to use existing provisions of the Clean Air Act (CAA)(2) to promulgate and enforce regulations that would enact standards addressed by the...

Greenhouse gases and global change: a challenge for Canadian geoscience.
SUMMARY Climate change is the most pressing societal issue of our time. The Canadian geological community is deeply divided as to whether or not anthropogenic carbon dioxide is the principal driver of the global warming that we see around us. As geologists, we have the scientific understanding...

An abridged history of deep ocean drilling.
In April 1961, CUSS I drilled the first deep sea hole in 3,800 meters of water off Guadalupe Island, Mexico. This issue of Oceanus concerns 25 years of ocean drilling for scientific purposes. However, the decade preceding these 25 years represents one of the most exciting and controversial periods...