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NASA Satellites See Sandy Expand as Storm Intensifies
October 28, 2012 — Hurricane Sandy is a Category 1 hurricane on Oct. 28, according to the National Hurricane Center. Sandy has drawn energy from a cold front to become a huge storm covering a large area of the eastern ... > full story -
River Floods Predicted Using New Technology
October 29, 2012 — Scientists are now using high-tech solutions to provide real-time forecast of the dangers of river floods caused by climate change and human activities to help avoid ... > full story -
USGS Storm-Surge Sensors Deployed Ahead of Tropical Storm Sandy
October 27, 2012 — Storm response crews from the U.S. Geological Survey are installing more than 150 storm-tide sensors at key locations along the Atlantic Coast -- from the Chesapeake Bay to Massachusetts -- in ... > full story -
NASA Satellites See Sandy Become a Hurricane Again and Strong Winds Expand
October 27, 2012 — Sandy weakened to a Tropical Storm and strengthened back into a hurricane early on Saturday (Oct. 27), and its pressure was dropping, meaning that the storm is intensifying as it becomes an ... > full story -
Mississippi River Diversion Helped Build Louisiana Wetlands, Geologists Find
October 21, 2012 — Geologists used the occasion of the Mississippi River flood of the spring of 2011 to observe how floodwaters deposited sediment in the Mississippi Delta. Their findings offer insight into how new ... > full story -
Could a Hurricane Ever Strike Southern California?
October 18, 2012 — There's an old adage (with several variations) that California has four seasons: earthquake, fire, flood and drought. While Californians happily cede the title of Hurricane Capital of America to U.S. ... > full story -
Deforestation in Snowy Regions Causes More Floods
October 3, 2012 — New research suggests that cutting down swaths of forest in snowy regions at least doubles -- and potentially quadruples -- the number of large floods that occur along the rivers and streams passing ... > full story -
Civil Engineers Destroy Test Levee in the Netherlands
September 20, 2012 — Civil engineers collapsed a full-scale dike this week in the Netherlands. The test dike was embedded with advanced sensors and traditional measurement instruments, and results of the study are ... > full story -
When It Rains, It Pours: Intensification of Extreme Tropical Rainfall With Global Warming Modeled
September 17, 2012 — Global warming is expected to intensify extreme precipitation, but the rate at which it does so in the tropics has remained unclear. Now a new study has given an estimate based on model simulations ... > full story -
Israeli Cave Explorers Return from Record-Breaking Expedition in Abkhazia of ‘Everest of the Caves’
September 3, 2012 — Cavers have just returned from exploring the deepest cave in the world. The cave, known as Krubera-Voronya, is considered the “Everest of the caves” and is in Abkhazia in the south of ... > full story
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