Insurance Losses from Chile Earthquake: $8 Billion June 10, 2010 | Property-Casualty.com An article on the Property-Casualty.com website reports that the February 27 earthquake... Higher Waves on U.S. West Coast January 26, 2010 | Oregon State University The average height of exceptionally large waves off the U.S. West Coast... Plate Tectonics Map February 2, 2009 | USGS The very popular and educational This Dynamic Planet: World Map of Volcanoes,... Glacial Earthquakes in Antarctica June 12, 2008 | National Science Foundation Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis, Penn State University and the... Plate Tectonics: Earth’s Lucky Geology January 12, 2008 | Discovery News Discovery News has an article titled: "Plate Tectonics: Earth's Lucky Geology". ... Video: Coastal Erosion in Africa March 18, 2009 | National Geographic In Senegal, land and homes are being lost to coastal erosion. ... West Indies Earthquakes & Geothermal November 7, 2008 | Caribbean News A series of earthquakes rocked the island of Nevis and some immediately... South American Drought March 6, 2009 | Earth Observatory Drought has been affecting much of the world recently. The brownish areas... 7.8 Earthquake – West Coast of South Island, NZ July 15, 2009 | USGS USGS reports that a 7.8 magnitude earthquake occurred along the west coast... Computer Models for Plate Tectonics August 30, 2010 | California Institute of Technology "New computer algorithms for the first time allow for the simultaneous modeling... 20 Years of Expansion in Chandler, AZ January 20, 2010 | Earth Observatory In the past few decades, many suburbs in the southwestern U.S. have... Plate Tectonics Stops Sometimes June 23, 2008 | Carnegie Institution for Science Researchers at the Carnegie Institution for Science say that plate tectonics may... Power From High Altitude Wind June 18, 2009 | CNN There is a lot of wind energy at an altitude of 1,600... The Minor Cities of Vesuvius September 2, 2008 | The Philadelphia Inquirer Pompeii and Herculaneum get almost all of the attention for being cities... Air Pollution in the United States May 2, 2009 | American Lung Association Air pollution is a problem in the United States, particularly in large... |