Special Geo-News Page: AGU Fall Meeting 2000
Here is a list of stories on the Web that appeared during and after the AGU Fall Meeting of 2000. They started in the daily newspapers, then in the weeklies and monthlies. Links were confirmed December 4, 2003.
A global volcano early-warning system would be a great thing, but we'll need to wait a good ten years for one (San Francisco Chronicle, December 16)
The same story as reported by Space.com
The same story as reported by Wired News
A worldwide "space weather" monitoring network will be based on the bankrupt Iridium network of satellites (Space.com, December 18)
The same story as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle
Ganymede may have a thin ocean far below its icy surface (S.F. Chronicle, December 17)
The same story as reported by the New York Times
The same story as reported by the Washington Post
Ozone in the Arctic stratosphere is still taking a hit even as emissions of destructive gases start to fall (CNN, December 16)
Rapid changes in climate not only have killed ancient civilizations but may lie ahead of our own (S.F. Chronicle, December 17)
Researchers showed findings from Herakleion and Menouthis, drowned cities now lying buried offshore near the Nile delta (S.F. Chronicle, December 17)
A drilling program is planned that would put instruments right on the San Andreas fault, 4 kilometers underground (see my April article about it) (S.F. Chronicle, December 18)
New drilling results from the Chicxulub impact crater suggest that the impact penetrated the crust (S.F. Chronicle, December 18)
Underwater landslides can cause tsunamis just as easily as earthquakes can, and in many places where earthquakes can't (S.F. Chronicle, December 19)
The same story as reported by Reuters
Fire in the great northern forests is occurring at a high and growing level in these recent warm years, surely affecting the global carbon balance (S.F. Chronicle, December 19)
This year, global average temperature was warm, but out of the record range it's been for two years in a row (S.F. Chronicle, December 20)
The same story as reported by the N.Y. Times
The same story as reported by AP
