- Help Us Keep an Eye on Climate Change -- Learn more, and find out how YOU can help us by observing the world around you from USGS scientist Jake Weltzin, Director of the National Phenology Network.
- How Abrupt Can Climate Change Be? -- USGS Associate Program Coordinator for the Office of Global Change John McGeehin discusses a new report on the potential for abrupt climate changes from global warming during this century.
- Arctic Heats Up More than Other Places --USGS scientist Joan Fitzpatrick discusses a new report on past climate variability and change in the Arctic.
- Farming Carbon to Help the Atmosphere and the Land -- Learn more from USGS bio-geochemist Robin Miller about how this could help California, the nation, and the world.
- Drought: the Long, Slow Natural Hazard (Part 1) -- In the first part of our two-part series on drought, we sit down with USGS scientists Julio Betancourt and Greg McCabe to talk about drought in the Western United States, along with some other interesting and surprising drought info.
- Drought: the Long, Slow Natural Hazard (Part 2) -- In the second part of our two-part drought mini-series, we head down South to talk with USGS scientists Curtis Weaver and Brian McCallum about the drought situation in the Southeastern United States.
- A New Way to Model Sea Ice Thickness -- Scientist Dave Douglas to discusses a newly developed modeling approach to estimate sea ice thickness—this is the only model based entirely on historic observations, and it was developed by scientists from the USGS and the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
- The Unusual Suspects --
Three scientists talk about lesser-known topics that were brought to light in the media in 2007 by the USGS Science Picks, including the loss of coastal wetlands, leaping carp, and evolutionary teamwork.
- Earth Science Week, Continued: Antarctica from Above and Below -- Interview with scientist Richie Williams about the USGS's amazing new satellite imagery of Antarctica as well as what's going on with ice on the southernmost continent.
- Hello, Earth Science Week! So What's Up With the Northwest Passage? -- We welcome you to our Earth Science Week extravaganza (a podcast every day from Monday to Friday!), and then we sit down with Tom Armstrong to talk about the intriguing past and uncertain future of the Northwest Passage.
- Prehistoric Climate Provides Clues to Future Changes -- Listen to USGS scientists Harry Dowsett and Marci Robinson discuss how prehistoric climate provides clues to the future climage change.
- Two 500-Year Floods Within 15 Years? -- Listen to Bob Holmes talk about some of the recent flooding events occuring in the Midwest, how does a 500-year flood occur twice in 15 years, and what do the recent events have in store for folks downriver.
- Severe Flooding in the Midwest -- Heavy rainfall across the Midwest has caused major flooding. USGS National Flood Specialist Bob Holmes gives us the latest information on the rising rivers and what the USGS is doing to respond.
- Antarctica from Above and Below -- Scientist Richie Williams discusses the USGS's amazing new satellite imagery of Antarctica as well as what's going on with ice on the southernmost continent.
- What's Up With the Northwest Passage? -- Tom Armstrong, Senior Advisor to the Director on Climate Change, discusses the intriguing past and uncertain future of the Northwest Passage.
- Polar Bear Research -- How important is the link between polar bears and sea ice?
- Climate Change -- Tom Armstrong discusses how climate change is affecting the planet and our lives.
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