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Geologist Calls for Advances in Restoration Sedimentology to Protect World's River Deltas
November 7, 2012 — Rapid advances in the new and developing field of restoration sedimentology will be needed to protect the world's river deltas from an array of threats, geologists ... > full story -
2011 Virginia Earthquake Triggered Landslides at Extraordinary Distances
November 6, 2012 — The 2011 Mineral, Virginia M-5.8 earthquake was felt over an extraordinarily large area. A new study details landslides triggered by the earthquake at distances four times greater and over an area 20 ... > 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 -
Flood Risk Ranking Reveals Vulnerable Cities
August 21, 2012 — A new study of nine coastal cities around the world suggests that Shanghai is most vulnerable to serious flooding. European cities top the leader board for their ... > full story -
Landslide Fatalities Are Greater Than Previously Thought
August 15, 2012 — Landslides kill ten times more people across the world than was previously thought, according to new ... > full story -
NASA Conducts Airborne Study of Colorado Landslide
August 11, 2012 — NASA's C-20A (Gulfstream III) Earth science aircraft, carrying a specially designed synthetic aperture radar, recently completed the latest in a series of data collection flights over Colorado's ... > full story -
Giant Ice Avalanches on Saturn's Moon Iapetus Provide Clue to Extreme Slippage Elsewhere in the Solar System
July 29, 2012 — Saturn's ice moon Iapetus has more giant landslides than any solar system body other than Mars. Measurements of the avalanches suggest that some mechanism lowered their coefficients of friction so ... > full story -
Increasing Levels of Carbon Dioxide in Arctic Coastal Seas
June 18, 2012 — The Arctic coastal seas absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide to an ever-decreasing extent. This leads to an increase in the level in the atmosphere and an increase in the rate of warming in the ... > full story -
Landslides Linked to Plate Tectonics Create the Steepest Mountain Terrain
May 30, 2012 — New research shows some of the steepest mountain slopes in the world got that way because of the interplay between terrain uplift associated with plate tectonics and powerful streams cutting into ... > full story -
Millions of Americans at Risk of Flooding as Sea Levels Rise
March 14, 2012 — Nearly four million Americans, occupying a combined area larger than the state of Maryland, find themselves at risk of severe flooding as sea levels rise in the coming century, new research suggests. ... > full story
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