First Baghdad Snow in About 100 Years
January 16, 2008 | Earth Observatory
Earth Observatory has a satellite image pair of snow on the ground... American Mountaineering Museum Opens in Golden, Colorado
February 20, 2008 | Daily Camera
The Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum opens this week in Golden, Colorado.... 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... International Oils Go Back To Iraq?
June 26, 2009 | MSNBC
Iraq needs income. One way to get income is to enable... 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... Water on the Moon: USGS Podcast
October 6, 2009 | USGS CoreCast
Interview with USGS scientist Dr. Roger Clark about his September 24th Science... USGS Opens Free Downloads of PDF Topo Maps
July 13, 2007 | USGS
USGS now has a location on their website where you can download... Mexico Opens a Canal Through Grijalva Landslide
December 20, 2007 | KansasCity.com
In November a major landslide in southern Mexico blocked the Grijalva... Iridescence in Fossil Bird Feathers
August 31, 2009 | National Science Foundation
"A team of paleontologists and ornithologists has discovered evidence of vivid iridescent... 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... Electronic Waste in Africa and Asia
August 3, 2009 | CNN
Some locations in Asia and Africa are being used as dump sites... 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... | 
