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Be the guardians of the forests
(photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
Be the guardians of the forests
The Hindu
| B.S. WARRIER | Clearing the Indian Forest Service examination gives a person a chance to lend a hand in the conservation of forests, whose importance in preserving life is growing what with multiple threats such as global warming and environmental pollution. | Envious access:A view of the Silent V...
Exploration geologists examining a freshly recovered drill core. Chile, 1994
(photo: Public Domain / Geoz)
Geologists protest bill to remove state rock
San Fransisco Chronicle
0 0 0 | Michael Macor / The Chronicle | Geologists say the state rock, serpentine, has educational value. Bill proponents don't like that it can contain asbestos. Images | View Larger Images | It takes real effort to impugn the reputation of an inanimate object, but there is a movement gaining tract...
Wikileaks confirmed: A plan to kill American geologist with poison beer
The Christian Science Monitor
New Delhi | An attempt was made to poison a key American adviser involved in the bidding for a multibillion dollar mining contract in Afghanistan by replacing beer in a bottle with sulfuric acid. | The little-reported incident occurred in June 2007 b...
Interview with geologist Art Berman - Part 2
Energy Bulletin
| Art Berman is a geological consultant whose specialties are subsurface petroleum geology, seismic interpretation, and database design and management. He is currently consulting with a wide range of industry clients such as PetroChina, Total, and Sc...
Sea floor mapping fascinates geologist
The News & Observer
| Meet Brian Romans, 36, a research geologist who works in the energy industry and blogs independently at Clastic Detritus (). Catch his tweets at @clasticdetritus. Questions and answers have been edited. | Q: On Sundays you post "Sea-Floor Sundays,"...
Charles Stearns, 90; geologist leaves legacy of mentoring
The Boston Globe
| Charles Edward Stearns, a former Tufts University dean and renowned geologist, died of natural causes June 27 at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was 90. | Dr. Stearns's love of the natural world and his mentoring of many other professors at the sch...
Geologist Berman: Shale gas reserves 'substantially overstated'
Energy Bulletin
| Art Berman is a geological consultant whose specialties are subsurface petroleum geology, seismic interpretation, and database design and management. He is currently consulting with a wide range of industry clients such as PetroChina, Total, and Sc...
Junior gold and rare earths explorers attract the Mercenary Geologist
Mineweb
KENWOOD, CA -  | The Gold Report: So far in 2010, there's been both positive and negative economic news. We now have health reform, about to have financial reform and stimulus money is still working its way through the system. The markets a...
American geologist appeals his 8-year prison term in China on oil industry secrets theft
Star Tribune
| BEIJING - An American geologist convicted this month of pilfering state secrets has appealed his eight-year prison sentence, arguing the information he collected should not be classified as secret, his lawyer said Friday. | Xue Feng insisted on app...
Geologists protest bill to remove state rock
San Fransisco Chronicle
0 0 0 | Michael Macor / The Chronicle | Geologists say the state rock, serpentine, has educational value. Bill proponents don't like that it can contain asbestos. Images | View Larger Images | It takes real effort to impugn the reputation of an inani...
Geologist Jailed For Trading China State Secrets Appeals
Wall Street Journal
By JAMES T. AREDDY | SHANGHAI -- Xue Feng, a U.S. geologist convicted this month of trading in Chinese state secrets, has appealed to a Beijing court to overturn his eight-year sentence, his lawyer said Friday. | The lawyer, Tong Wei, said Mr. Xue's ...
California May Drop Rock, and Geologists Feel the Pain
Herald Tribune
| LOS ANGELES — Empirically speaking, geologists are not a particularly irascible group. But those who make their living studying rocks, minerals and gems in California — and increasingly those scientists beyond the state’s borde...
Natural Gases
A gas pipeline worker, checks equipment at the gas pumping station at Pisarevka, Russia, seen Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009.
(photo: AP / Svetlana Kozlenko)
Czechs Weighs Alternatives to Russian Energy
Wall Street Journal
By SEAN CARNEY And GORDON FAIRCLOUGH | PRAGUE—The Czech Republic's top diplomat Friday cautioned against Prague becoming too reliant on any single nation for its energy needs, as the country considers opening its nuclear-power industry more widely to non-Russian suppliers. | "If don't think it's good if in anything you are dependent too much ...
Mining
HQ of the Deutsche Bank (centre)
(photo: Creative Commons / mattingham)
Deutsche declines comment on talk of aluminium ETF plan
Mining Weekly
| LONDON – Deutsche Bank on Friday declined to comment on market talk that it will launch a physically-backed aluminium exchange traded product (ETP) by the end of this year. | Metal traders told Reuters this week that the German Bank was preparing to follow the world's top aluminium producer, Russia's UC RUSAL, which has said is considering an ...



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