AGI Press Releases

Virtual Water: Tracking the Unseen Water in Goods and Resources

September 23, 2014

Virtual water was coined in 1993 to help explain why long-predicted water wars driven by water and food security had not occurred among the arid nations of the Middle East and North Africa. The virtual water notion refers basically to the total amount of freshwater,… [Read More]

Join Earth Science Week Team in Encouraging Everyone to Explore Geoscience Careers on 'Geoscience for Everyone Day'

September 16, 2014

Alexandria, VA - Join the Earth Science Week team in encouraging everyone to explore geoscience careers on Geoscience for Everyone Day Thursday, October 16, 2014. If you re an educator, invite a geoscientist to speak in your classroom. If you re a geoscientist, visit… [Read More]

Earth Magazine: The Bay Area's Next 'Big One' Could Strike as a Series of Quakes

September 16, 2014

Alexandria, Va. — Most people are familiar with the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and are aware of the earthquake risk posed to the Bay Area — and much of California — by the San Andreas Fault. However, a cluster of large earthquakes struck the San Andreas and… [Read More]

Valley Fever an Occupational Hazard for Geoscientists

September 10, 2014

Valley Fever — a sometimes-fatal infection with no known cure and no vaccine — is caused by a soilborne fungus that thrives in the hot, dry soils of the southwestern U.S., Mexico and Central and South America. However, recent reports of infections far outside the… [Read More]

Critical Issues Forum: The Benefits and Risks of a U.S. Methane Economy

September 4, 2014

Is a natural gas-dominant economy achievable in North America? Would it be desirable? These are the questions that the American Geosciences Institute (AGI) aims to address in its inaugural Critical Issues Forum: America s Increasing Reliance on Natural Gas: Benefits and… [Read More]

Living in the Shadow of Mauna Loa: A Silent Summit Belies a Volcano's Forgotten Fury

September 2, 2014

Although Mauna Loa often takes a back seat to the more famous Kilauea, which has been erupting nearly continuously since 1983, history warns us that Mauna Loa s current silence is anomalous. Meanwhile, more people and more buildings pack into potentially hazardous… [Read More]

Earth Magazine: Changing the Landscape - Geoscientists Embrace 3-D Printing

August 25, 2014

Alexandria, Va. — The rapid proliferation of 3-D printing technology in the early 2000s sent ripples of excitement through the tech world and beyond, but the high price of printers put them out of reach for most academic researchers and hobbyists. Now, more affordable… [Read More]

Citywide Celebrations Give Earth Science Week A Local Focus

August 20, 2014

Alexandria, VA - The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is pleased to announce two city-specific celebrations of its annual geoscience awareness campaign, Earth Science Week, taking place October 12-18, 2014. Earth Science Week Houston and Earth Science Week Denver… [Read More]

La Brea climate adaptation as different as cats and dogs

August 14, 2014

Alexandria, Va.— The La Brea tar pits in downtown Los Angeles are a famous predator trap. For every herbivore, a dozen or more carnivores — saber-toothed cats and dire wolves chief among them — are pulled from the prolific Pleistocene fossil site. In fact, the remains… [Read More]

Citizen Science the Focus of New Earth Science Week Site

August 12, 2014

Science teachers and students can go online today to use a new educational resource of the Earth Science Week website, the Be a Citizen Scientist page, which features information and links for recommended citizen science programs focusing on Earth science. Citizen… [Read More]