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What’s So Hot About Volcanoes (What’s So Cool About Geology) by Wendell A. Duffield
A volcanologist transports readers to Hawaii, Chile and Japan to show how volcanoes form, why they erupt and how scientists are trying to predict eruptions. Mountain Press, 2011, 89 p., $16, young adult
- Animals
Bat killer hits endangered grays
The news on white-nose syndrome just keeps spiraling downward. The fungal infection, which first emerged six years ago, has now been confirmed in a seventh species of North American bats — the largely cave-dwelling grays (Myotis grisecens). The latest victims were struck while hibernating this past winter in two Tennessee counties.
- Astronomy
Violent birth proposed for Saturn’s moon mishmash
A simulation suggests that giant collisions created Titan and the planet’s many smaller satellites.
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- Astronomy
Curiosity to look for habitable environs
Set to land on Mars August 5, NASA mission will search for signs that the planet could support life, now or long ago.
- Physics
As Erebus Lives and Breathes
The Antarctica volcano’s long-lived lava lake coughs up clues to the physiology of volcanoes .
- Space
Smallest planet yields big surprises
Spacecraft images reveal Mercury has a complicated inside and an active geologic past.
- Earth
East Coast faces faster sea level rise
From North Carolina to Massachusetts, waters are rising more rapidly than the global average.
- Earth
Warming indicted for extreme weather
Climate change can explain some 2011 departures from the norm.
- Life
Calcium offers clues in mass extinction
Ocean acidification during Permian period may have caused the Great Dying.
- Earth
Indonesian quake passes without major tsunami
A magnitude 8.6 tremor displaced far less water than the 2004 Indian Ocean disaster.
- Planetary Science
Curiosity readies for dramatic entrance
NASA’s new Mars rover aims to alight on the Red Planet like a pop star being lowered onto stage.
