Monthly Archives: November 2007

Venusian datafest in Nature

Anyone interested in Venus will be very happy with this week’s issue of Nature, which has published a raft of papers detailing the latest findings of the European Space Agency’s Venus Express probe, which has been orbiting our inner planetary … Continue reading

Categories: planets

Lusi update

The latest from Lusi It’s been some time since I last checked in on Lusi, the mad-made mud volcano, but this account of conditions on the ground in the Christian Science Monitor prompted me to check out the latest satellite … Continue reading

Categories: geohazards, Lusi

Nuclear power’s false new dawn?

We’re not even building enough reactors to replace the ones we’ve got…
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Categories: environment

Creation geologists: going forward to the past

This NY Times account of the “First Conference in Creation Geology” should ring a few bells, because I blogged about it way back at the beginning of September. Take that, mainstream media. As I said at the time, the idea … Continue reading

Categories: antiscience

Seismic hazards of the world

This is the Global Sesimic Hazard Assessment Program’s global hazard map: Andrew Alden of About.com geology has produced a nice little resource by taking the high-resolution data freely available on the GSHAP website and breaking it down into a series … Continue reading

Categories: geohazards