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With prices that rarely top $20 for even the best bottles, Rieslings have become hot sellers at some wine stores--if you can find them in stock. The German government doesn't fund wine promotion, putting vintners at a major competitive disadvantage in the quest for shelf space. The wineries are tiny, family-owned affairs, a circumstance that does plenty for the charm factor but little for the marketing budget. For Rieslings that do make their way to wine merchants, the customer can find another obstacle: deciphering the label. The average Joe looking to expand his horizons has to stare...
Disaster-movie-type predictions that a potential undersea disturbance could unleash a giant tsunami, or tidal wave, on the United States' low-lying Eastern Seaboard are probably overblown. Sparked by a report in this month's issue of the journal Geology that researchers have discovered cracks in the continental shelf off Virginia, residents have been alarmed by visions of 20-foot waves heading toward North Carolina, Virginia and Washington, D.C. The scientists behind the report, however, are very cautious in saying that such an event is highly unlikely. "This is a possible disaster kind of scenario, but it's just...
...know, however, that they form part of a wide scar caused by a landslide that occurred 16,000 to 18,000 years ago. Such a slide could be triggered by undersea seismic activity or the decomposition of gas hydrate deposits, a very rare occurrence on the East Coast continental shelf but one that would have devastating consequences. We'll know more about the situation this summer when the researchers go back to try and determine whether the cracks...
...river 40 miles from its banks, the U.S. Congress made levee construction Washington's responsibility. Billions of tax dollars from elsewhere--probably tens of billions, in modern money--were spent constricting the Mississippi's channel, so its silt began washing straight out to sea and off the continental shelf. By the 1970s, more than half the historic sediment load was coming to a dead stop behind dozens of upriver dams--especially seven monstrous structures erected on the Missouri...
...alternative though: pump it into the ground. In Norway, for example, the energy company Norsk Hydro is building a power plant that will be fueled with hydrogen drawn from natural gas. The CO2 that's left over will be reinjected into an oil field on the continental shelf. Not only will this take the carbon dioxide out of circulation but it will also pressurize the field and make the remaining oil easier to pump out. In Europe and the U.S., pumping CO2 into underground aquifers has proved an effective way of keeping it out of the atmosphere...