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Headline	Author	Published	Section
U.S. Geological Survey Says ... Arctic holds vast untapped oil and gas reserves		24 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:48 AM on 24 Jul 2008 The Arctic Ocean holds up to 20 percent of the world's undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas reserves, according to new research from the U.S. Geological Survey. A four-year study found that the region contains up to 90 billion barrels of oil and almost a third of the world's undiscovered natural gas -- about 1,670 trillion cubic feet. However, even with climate change im ...
Topics: Arctic, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, US Geological Survey (all these topics)

Noisy spring, silent summer? Following the path of contaminants from your bathroom to the birds	Fawn Pattison	14 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This is a story about sludge, worms, and songbirds, and it starts in your bathroom cabinet. Photo: Southernpixel When we treat our wastewater to remove 'biosolids' -- a polite term for our human waste -- all sorts of other things end up in the leftover sludge, including the drugs we take and the 'personal care products' like lotion, shampoo, makeup, and cologne that we slather on our bodies, which have been absorbed through our skin and then excreted in ...
Topics: scientific research, US Geological Survey, wildlife (all these topics)

Coil in Fear Giant pythons could spread in southern U.S., say feds		21 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 3:52 PM on 21 Feb 2008 You may think you're prepared for climate change -- solar-powered fan, flood insurance, nostalgic polar-bear picture, check, check, check -- but are you prepared for 20-foot, 250-pound snakes? Giant Burmese pythons could find some one-third of the United States to be habitable climate by 2100, according to a new map published by the U.S. Geological Survey. The pythons, which were originally dumpe ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, US Geological Survey, wildlife (all these topics)

Ursine of the Times U.S. study says two-thirds of polar bears will be gone by 2050		10 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 6:52 AM on 10 Sep 2007 The U.S. Geological Survey released a grim study of polar bears on Friday, concluding that two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be gone by 2050. Polar bears in Alaska and other areas outside the very far north will be most out of luck, according to the study; it forecasts that precisely zero polar bears will be left in Alaska by 2050. "Sea ice conditions would have to b ...
Topics: Arctic, news, polar bears, US Geological Survey, wildlife (all these topics)

America's Coast Wanted Katrina and Rita destroyed 217 square miles of Louisiana coastline		13 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
America's Coast Wanted Katrina and Rita destroyed 217 square miles of Louisiana coastline Hurricanes Katrina and Rita drowned 217 square miles of Louisiana's fragile coastline, turning wetlands, undeveloped dry land, and farmland into open water, says a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey. The research underscores the urgent need for a storm buffer of plants, soils, and barrier islands. "We need a ne ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, oceans, US Geological Survey (all these topics)

Diss Me Cate EPA whistleblower says agency misled on health hazards of 9/11 dust		25 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Diss Me Cate EPA whistleblower says agency misled on health hazards of 9/11 dust A U.S. EPA whistleblower has gone public with accusations that the agency downplayed the health hazards of dust from the collapsed World Trade Center. EPA senior scientist Cate Jenkins -- who has long clashed with her employer -- says the agency relied on misleading test reports in 2002 and 2003. A few months after 9/11, ...
Topics: New York, news, toxics, US EPA, US Geological Survey (all these topics)

Yucca Fool Some of the People Some of the Time Feds won't press charges against scientists who falsified Yucca documents		26 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Yucca Fool Some of the People Some of the Time Feds won't press charges against scientists who falsified Yucca documents Scientists accused of falsifying quality-assurance documents for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste site in Nevada will not be charged by federal prosecutors. Emails between U.S. Geological Survey hydrologists from 1998 to 2000 indicate that dates were inve ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Nevada, news, nuclear power, US Geological Survey (all these topics)

Fools Rush In Melting Arctic leads to black-gold rush		19 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Fools Rush In Melting Arctic leads to black-gold rush A quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and gas reserves may lie beneath the Arctic Ocean. For centuries they've been stuck under a thick layer of ice, but luckily, the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet and all that bothersome ice is melting! Oil companies around the world are drooling over the black gold up north. Under the au ...
Topics: Arctic, energy, news, oil, US Geological Survey (all these topics)

Ice Hassles Antarctic glaciers rapidly melting		22 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Ice Hassles Antarctic glaciers rapidly melting Wanna travel to Antarctica, but worried about all that ice? Worry no more. On the Antarctic Peninsula, a 1,200-mile-long mountain chain 600 miles south of Argentina, about 212 of the 244 glaciers are retreating, fast. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and the British Antarctic Survey studied photos and satellite data from the 1940s to 2001, concluding ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, news, US Geological Survey (all these topics)

On Thin Ice Sierra Nevada Glaciers Are Shrinking		13 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
On Thin Ice Sierra Nevada Glaciers Are Shrinking Glaciers that have topped California's Sierra Nevada Mountains for the past 1,000 years are shrinking markedly and even vanishing altogether, according to research by scientists from Portland State University and the U.S. Geological Survey. Seven Sierra Nevada glaciers that were surveyed over the summer are smaller than they were a century ago, including the Darw ...
Topics: California, US Geological Survey, wilderness (all these topics)

Calling in the Reserves		21 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Calling in the Reserves The debate over oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been in the limelight a lot lately -- but what about energy exploitation in the rest of the state? On Friday, the Bush administration released a report on the likely environmental impact of new dril ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, energy, marine life, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, US Geological Survey, US Navy, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Is That USGS or USBS?		18 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Is That USGS or USBS? Here's some news to make you think twice about the reliability of government figures: The U.S. Geological Survey has announced that there is far more coal bed methane gas available in the Powder River Basin than previously thought -- while simultaneously acknowledging that the Rocky Mountain West contains far less oil than the agency had claimed in earli ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, Montana, politics, US Geological Survey, Wyoming (all these topics)

A Snowball's Chance		18 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
A Snowball's Chance Perhaps the clearest and most visible sign of climate change in America won't be around for much longer: The glaciers of Glacier National Park in Montana are melting and will be gone within 30 years, scientists say. Dan Fagre, the 49-year-old leader of the U.S. Geological Survey team studying the problem, says, "It's not just going to happen in my lifetime. It's going to happ ...
Topics: climate, Montana, national parks, US Geological Survey (all these topics)

A Rocky Start		18 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
A Rocky Start Before you celebrate too much ... The Bush administration has already set its sights on another drilling target: the Rocky Mountains. Dozens of petitions to drill on public lands throughout the Rocky Mountain states have been submitted to the White House, which has established a Task Force on Energy Project Streamlining "to expedite the increased sup ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, North America, politics, US Geological Survey, wildlife (all these topics)

Quick Study		08 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Quick Study One week after a study by the U.S. Geological Survey showed that oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could harm caribou, the agency has completed another study claiming that the drilling scenarios most likely to be approved by Congress would not affect the species. The two-page report was commissioned by Interior Secretary Gale Norton shortly after the release of the ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, US Geological Survey, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Foot-in-mouth Disease?		29 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Foot-in-mouth Disease? Dealing a blow to advocates of natural resource extraction in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, biologists working for the U.S. Geological Survey have produced a report finding that oil and gas drilling in the refuge could substantially threaten caribou, musk oxen, polar bears, migrating birds, and other wildlife. Although the report acknowledges that the risk coul ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, US Geological Survey, wildlife (all these topics)

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