American Mountaineering Museum Opens in Golden, Colorado February 20, 2008 | Daily Camera The Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum opens this week in Golden, Colorado.... First Baghdad Snow in About 100 Years January 16, 2008 | Earth Observatory Earth Observatory has a satellite image pair of snow on the ground... Giant Canary Islands Telescope Opens July 14, 2007 | Topix.net The "Great Canary Telescope" has started work. Located on La Palma,... Russia as a Climate Recalcitrant? November 16, 2008 | The Australian A warm climate and an open Arctic Ocean might be a good... Doomsday Vault for the World’s Seed Reserve Opens February 26, 2008 | Times Online The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened and received ten tons of seeds... NASA Opens Applications for Their 2009 Astronaut Class September 20, 2007 | NASA Geologists are eligible to apply..... "To be considered, a bachelor's degree in... Greenland Auctions Oil and Gas Tracts January 16, 2008 | International Herald Tribune Greenland plans to auction oil and natural gas exploration leases in a... Zinc Mine Opens in South Australia September 19, 2008 | ABC News Terramin Australia recently opened the Angas Zinc Mine at a time when... USGS Opens Free Downloads of PDF Topo Maps July 13, 2007 | USGS USGS now has a location on their website where you can download... International Oils Go Back To Iraq? June 26, 2009 | MSNBC Iraq needs income. One way to get income is to enable... Mexico Opens a Canal Through Grijalva Landslide December 20, 2007 | KansasCity.com In November a major landslide in southern Mexico blocked the Grijalva... De Beers Opens Snap Lake & Victor July 28, 2008 | JCKonline.com De Beers has officially opened two diamond mines in Canada after several... Drought in the Middle East May 30, 2008 | Earth Observatory Iraq and Syria are in the midst of one of their worst... Early Humans in China 1.2 MYA August 11, 2007 | Science Daily Several stone artifacts and mammalian bone fragments have been found buried in... The Impact of High Oil Prices June 2, 2008 | The Independent This article takes a look at how high oil prices are hitting... Yellowcake Uranium From Iraq July 6, 2008 | MSNBC / Associated Press About 550 tons of yellowcake, a uranium concentrate, was removed from Iraq... Dust Storm Over the Persian Gulf September 18, 2008 | Earth Observatory A dust storm on September 12th blew plumes of dust off the... A Geospatial Reference System for Iraq June 21, 2007 | American Surveyor An article on the American Surveyor website explains the values of a... Deep Water Platforms and Satellite Fields May 8, 2009 | Wall Street Journal An interesting article in the Wall Street Journal describes how British Petroleum... 5.4 Earthquake on East Side of Hawaii August 14, 2007 | USGS A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has occurred on the east side of Hawaii... |