EARTH Magazine: The Year in Review

Traditionally, Earth Magazine has published a “highlights” or “year in review” issue at the end of the year. This year for our December issue, we decided to try a different approach: instead of focusing on the top news and research highlights of the last year, we asked our staff and some frequent contributors to write a short commentary on something that grabbed their attention in 2013. We ended up with a collection of extremely varied, often personal insights into how the planet impacted each individual.

Each day from Nov. 18 to 22, Earth Magazine will release a new commentary from our print issue. The subjects are varied but the themes intersect where geoscience and society meet.

Monday

Earth’s Associate Editor Sara Pratt reflects on her family’s experience living through the 2013 floods in Boulder, Colo.

Tuesday

Earth’s Managing Editor Megan Sever discusses how she annoys her friends and family with geology trivia. You should do the same.

Wednesday

Earth’s roving correspondent Mary Caperton Morton talks about how witnessing a rockfall in New Mexico made her think about our current spot in geological time.

Thursday

Earth contributor Michael Webber draws parallels between what geoscience has to learn from zombies when it comes to things like energy.

For all eight commentary pieces, download the full issue from the Earth Magazine digital bookstand at www.earthmagazine.org/digital. Read the full issue for the holiday gift guide for the geoscientist in your life, and learn more about what a new Antarctic ice core can say about the last ice age and how scientists used photos from 1906 to map the San Francisco earthquake fault trace.

Keep up to date with the latest happenings in Earth, energy and the environment news with Earth magazine online at www.earthmagazine.org/. Published by the American Geosciences Institute, Earth is your source for the science behind the headlines.