Graph of the Day: Discovery Rate of Major Mineral Deposits, 1980-2006

This GIS shapefile data layer shows the location of offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. The platform information was made available by Minerals Management Service, and has been reprojected from the NAD 27 datum to NAD...

By Louis Sahagun 9 November 2017 (Los Angeles Times) – For Sharon Ditmore, the signs of the holidays showing up in this city devastated by fire are both comforting and depressing.Ditmore lost her home in the working-class neighborhood of Coffey...

Adam Morton, November 3, 2008  ATMOSPHERIC concentrations of methane, "a greenhouse gas more than 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide", have risen for the first time in eight years, prompting concern about the pace of climate change. A global...