TOKYO — Some high profile researchers in the earth sciences are questioning several long-standing assumptions about predicting earthquakes. They contend it is time for a major reassessment on the methods used to forecast where and when killer earthquakes will strike.
CAMP DENALI, Alaska— The Alaska Air National Guard rescued a distressed 25-year-old hiker approximately 43-miles southeast of Anchorage near Whittier Glacier August 28 after Alaska State Troopers requested a hoist equipped helicopter.
The new study demonstrates that old organic matter in sedimentary basins located beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet may have been converted to methane by micro-organisms living under oxygen-deprived conditions. The methane could be released to the atmosphere if the ice sheet shrinks and exposes these old sedimentary basins.
AMES, Iowa — President Obama is speaking at Iowa State University Tuesday, just two weeks after he made another three-day bus tour through Iowa. Meanwhile, his presumed GOP opponent in the presidential race, Mitt Romney, was also back in Bettendorf last week — just two weeks after his last Iowa visit.