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Caribou And Northern Indigenous People: Seeking Sustainability In A World Of Instability
February 14, 2008 — For most northern indigenous people, the roughly 3 million caribou in the world are their most important terrestrial subsistence resource, and while hunters and scientists alike have long expressed ... > full story -
Tropical Soils Impede Landmine Detection
February 6, 2008 — Use of a metal detector is the most common technique when searching for landmines, which litter the soil in approximately 90 countries around the world. Many of these countries are located in the ... > full story -
Archaeologists Discover Roman Fort In Cornwall, England
February 5, 2008 — Archaeologists have discovered a Roman fort in South East Cornwall. Dating back to the first century AD, this is only the third Roman fort ever to have been found in the county. The team believes its ... > full story -
New Thoughts On Language Acquisition: Toddlers As Data Miners
January 29, 2008 — Researchers are studying a ground-breaking theory that young children are able to learn large groups of words rapidly by data-mining. Their theory, which they have explored with 12- and ... > full story -
Archaeologist 'Strikes Gold' With Finds Of Ancient Nasca Iron Ore Mine In Peru
January 29, 2008 — An archaeologist discovered an intact ancient iron ore mine in South America that shows how civilizations before the Inca Empire were mining this valuable ore. The Nasca people may have used the ... > full story -
Heavy Metal Slips Down UK Air Quality Charts
January 14, 2008 — Air quality in the UK has improved significantly over the last 25 years according to a new report. Monitoring at 17 testing sites around the UK shows a fall in the presence of harmful heavy metals ... > full story -
Seagull Blood Shows Promise For Monitoring Pollutants From Oil Spills
January 14, 2008 — Like the proverbial coal miners' canary-in-the-cage, seagulls may become living sentinels to monitor oil pollution levels in marine environments. Researchers have known for years that large oil ... > full story -
Collision Avoidance Technology For Mine Haul Trucks
December 5, 2007 — Today's mine haul tracks are massive vehicles in which drivers have limited vision and cannot see anything within around 30 meters. If a smaller vehicle on the mine site gets in the way of one of ... > full story -
Discovery Of Primary Deposit Of Rubies Leads To Improved Prospecting Strategies
December 3, 2007 — A primary deposit of rubies has just been discovered in Madagascar. The combination of this new field data with the oxygen isotope composition gave geologists the possibility to determine exactly the ... > full story -
New Fuel Cell Cleans Up Pollution And Produces Electricity
December 3, 2007 — Scientists are reporting development of a fuel cell that uses pollution from coal and metal mines to generate electricity, solving a serious environmental problem while providing a new source of ... > full story
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