“The rare twin tornadoes that spun through on Monday night wiped out the town’s business district, obliterated its fire station and ground 40 or 50 homes into rubble.”

On Monday, Russia cut of natural gas flowing into Ukraine. Russia claims that Ukraine owes $2 billion for gas that has already been delivered.

“As NASA’s Cassini spacecraft zooms past Titan during a June 18 flyby, it will be bouncing radio waves off the moon’s surface and through its atmosphere, toward Earth.” Quoted from the NASA press release

Geoscience Currents #88: Rankings & Top 10 Degree Granting Institutions for University Geoscience Faculty presents data on the academic rank of current geoscience professors in the United States and the universities where they earned their highest degree.

“Most of the world’s future oil and gas reserves won’t come from new discoveries, but by finding ways to get more oil from regions the industry already has already developed.” Quoted from the FuelFix article.

“For years we have known that activities, such as road de-icing, irrigation, and other activities in urban and agricultural lands increase the dissolved solids concentrations above natural levels caused by rock weathering, and now we have improved science-based information on the primary sources of dissolved-solids in the nation’s streams.” Quoted from the USGS press release.

“Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) warned Thursday that the greatest threat to U.S. energy security isn’t finding energy, it’s transporting it.” Quoted from TheHill.com.

“The proposed pipeline, which would transport crude from Alberta’s oil sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast, is in its sixth year of review.” Quoted from the Bloomberg article.

“Indiana County-based Falcon Drilling is […] using mid-sized rigs and air drilling, as a less-expensive approach.” Quoted from TribLive.com

“North Carolina could soon be deluged with cheap and abundant natural gas from the Marcellus Shale through a major pipeline expansion that could dampen urgency to incubate a home-grown fracking industry.” Quoted from the NewsObserver.com article.

“NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has imaged the planet Mercury passing in front of the sun, visible as a faint darkening that moves across the face of the sun.

This is the first transit of the sun by a planet observed from any planet other than Earth, and also the first imaging of Mercury from Mars. Mercury fills only about one-sixth of one pixel as seen from such great distance.” Quoted from NASA.gov.

Raven Maps are beautiful examples of shaded-relief wall maps that display the elevation of a state in vibrant colors. These large maps look great in a classroom, den or office. Use one to mark the locations of your work or company.