Earth Sciences

Earth Talk 3/14/2010 (The Scranton Times-Tribune)

14 Mar 2010

Q: How does growing human population, and its resultant landscape changes, affect the flight paths of migratory birds that might carry diseases? A: As human population numbers grow, oceans of people seem to spread out into every conceivable environment

Post-Snow, Northeast Mops up From Wind-Driven Rain (ABC News)

13 Mar 2010

Northeast copes with flooding and power outages as rain takes up where blizzards left off Earth Sciences - New York City - Atmospheric Sciences - Meteorology - Storm Chasing

Russian church wants czar's burial site (Seattle Times)

13 Mar 2010

Visitors from around the world have turned an isolated ravine in central Russia into a pilgrimage site in recent years. They arrive to gaze at the unadorned earth where the Bolsheviks, in one final act to defile the dynasty that they toppled, are believed to have dumped the remains of Czar Nicholas II and his family in July 1918.