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A new analysis of water quality downstream of Atlanta shows that some pollutants from the city are still detectable in the river more than 500 kilometers away. (p. 24)Published: July 14th, 2001; Vol.160 #2Found in: Earth Science
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A new model that includes a forest's effect on regional climate shows that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next three decades, much more rapidly than previously expected. (p. 24)Published: July 14th, 2001; Vol.160 #2Found in: Earth Science
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An Italian scientist makes the controversial suggestion that the original source of the legend of the Loch Ness Monster, as well as blame for many of the modern encounters with the supposed beast, may be seismic activity beneath the lake. (p. 5)Published: July 7th, 2001; Vol.160 #1Found in: Earth Science -
Excavations near an Egyptian oasis have unearthed the fossils of an animal that probably ranks as the second-most-massive dinosaur known. (p. 397)Published: June 23rd, 2001; Vol.159 #25Found in: Paleobiology
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Trace fossils found in a vacant lot in a small town in Utah, including the footprints of meat-eating dinosaurs, could soon be protected as part of a new U.S. national monument. (p. 397)Published: June 23rd, 2001; Vol.159 #25Found in: Paleobiology
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Aerial photographs taken over the past 50 years show that Alaska's coastlines of permafrost aren't that permanent after all. (p. 381)Published: June 16th, 2001; Vol.159 #24Found in: Earth Science
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Large increases in Asian industrial emissions of nitrogen oxides in the next 30 years could lead to a tripling of the acid rain there due to those pollutants. (p. 381)Published: June 16th, 2001; Vol.159 #24Found in: Earth Science
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Sediments in lakes and bogs along the eastern coast of the United States show that midlatitude bodies of water have sequestered higher amounts of carbon than others since the last ice age. (p. 381)Published: June 16th, 2001; Vol.159 #24Found in: Earth Science
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New computer models developed to analyze how seismic vibrations travel through uneven terrain can also be used to identify and track heavy vehicles such as tanks and trains. (p. 381)Published: June 16th, 2001; Vol.159 #24Found in: Earth Science
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A magnitude 8.5 earthquake off the coast of Oregon would devastate portions of the state, kill thousands of residents, and wrack the economy there for more than a decade. (p. 381)Published: June 16th, 2001; Vol.159 #24Found in: Earth Science
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A new map of the magnetic anomalies in Antarctica and the seafloor surrounding the continent is giving researchers a fresh tool to use in analyzing geologic features that lie hidden beneath thousands of feet of ice or storm-tossed seas. (p. 358)Published: June 9th, 2001; Vol.159 #23Found in: Earth Science
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A tiny fossil skull found in 195-million-year-old Chinese sediments provides evidence that crucial features of mammal anatomy evolved more than 45 million years earlier than previously thought. (p. 324)Published: May 26th, 2001; Vol.159 #21Found in: Paleobiology -
Chunks of fossil charcoal found in ancient sediments in north central Pennsylvania suggest that cycles of wildfire plagued Earth more than 360 million years ago. (p. 309)Published: May 19th, 2001; Vol.159 #20Found in: Earth Science -
When Hurricanes Dennis, Floyd, and Irene pummelled North Carolina in the fall of 1999, they delivered a three-punch sequence that may, for years to come, disrupt fishing in the Atlantic Ocean. (p. 293)Published: May 12th, 2001; Vol.159 #19Found in: Ecology -
Computer models show that the onset and strengthening of Asian monsoons over the past 8 million to 9 million years are strongly linked to various stages in the uplift of the Tibetan plateau. (p. 301)Published: May 12th, 2001; Vol.159 #19Found in: Earth Science
