Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory195
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Southern Glaciers Grow Out of Step With North
New Dating Technique Points to Differences Over 7,000 Years
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Wind Shifts May Stir CO2 From Antarctic Depths
Releases May Have Speeded End of Last Ice Age—And Could Act Again
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Foot Forward
In 1968, 14-year-old Paul Olsen of suburban Livingston, N.J., and his friend Tony Lessa heard that dinosaur tracks had been found in a nearby quarry. They raced over on their bikes. “I went ballistic,” Olsen recalls. Over the next few years, the boys uncovered and studied thousands of tracks and other fossils there, often working into the night. It opened the…
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What Was That Big Bang?
Iran seems to be moving toward an atomic bomb; North Korea reportedly could build a half dozen; and terrorist attacks have revived the specter of a faceoff between nuclear-armed Pakistan and India. Yet the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, forbidding nuclear testing, has failed to win ratification from the U.S. Senate and lawmakers of some other nations. Opponents say scientists cannot reliably detect clandestine tests: Why should…
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Major Drilling Ship Back at Sea
JOIDES Resolution to Range From Bering Sea to Antarctic
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Antarctic Scientists Inaugurate ‘Ocean Station Obama’
Far From Washington, Gathering Climate Data Under New President
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Wallace Broecker Wins (Yet Another) Top Prize
Climate Scientist Who Sounded Early Warnings Is Still At Work
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J. Lamar Worzel, Physicist Who Set Man’s Ear to Oceans
A wizardly improviser who guided sub warfare and charting of depths
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