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Celebrate 400 years of moon maps for Apollo 11's anniversary (gallery)
Space via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe Library of Congress has 400 years of moon maps from around the world. Explore the moon in...
US Rep. Gonzalez introduces bill to improve flood mapping
Valley Morning Star, Harlingen, Texas via Yahoo News· 1 year agoApr. 11—WASHINGTON — U.S. Reps. Vicente Gonzalez, whose district includes Cameron County, and Alex Mooney of West Virginia introduced H.R. 2568, the Improvement of Mapping, Addresses, Geography ...
US Claims Huge Chunk of Seabed Amid Strategic Push for Resources
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance· 5 months ago(Bloomberg) -- The US extended its claims on the ocean floor by an area twice the size of...
The biggest thing you’ve never heard of: How EROS changed the world from a cornfield
Argus Leader via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe U.S. Geological Survey’s Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center is celebrating...
Unearthing tension: Sand runs the world, but most don't realize the conflict it generates
Salon via Yahoo News· 2 months agoSand slipping through fingers Getty Images/PeopleImages As William Blake famously wrote, "To see a...
Ancient ‘star dune’ evidence isn’t missing. It’s been hiding in plain sight, radar reveals
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 months agoStar dunes are common, but scientists have long wondered about their formation and puzzling absence...
It’s Only a Matter of Time Before a Tsunami Hits the Northwest. Why Is It Missing from FEMA’s Risk...
Politico via Yahoo News· 5 months agoScattered like driftwood along the coast of Washington state is a string of Native reservations, tourist havens and faded timber towns whose names bespeak their geography: Long Beach, Westport ...
Is Africa Splitting in Two? Really? Here's the Scoop
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe notion of Africa splitting has the attention scientists and geologists worldwide, as the Great Rift Valley stretches and tears at the Earth's crust.
A wilderness guide stumbled upon Alaska's northernmost glacier -- one not marked on any map
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDec. 27—The Shublik Mountains stretch parallel to Alaska's Arctic coast, with rocky ridges surrendering to miles and miles of North Slope tundra. Talus and boulder fields, as well as occasional ...
Those seeds clinging to your hiking socks may be from invasive plants – here's how to avoid...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThese stowaways can do a lot of damage. Brett L./ Flickr, CC BY-SAWith spring settling in across the...
