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Landslides: How Rainfall Dried Up Panama's Drinking Water
May 17, 2011 — An aerial survey of landslides has helps scientists evaluate the effect of a prolonged tropical storm on the water supply in the Panama Canal ... > full story -
Satellite Images Display Extreme Mississippi River Flooding from Space
May 13, 2011 — Recent Landsat satellite data captured by the USGS and NASA on May 10 shows the major flooding of the Mississippi River around Memphis, Tenn., and along the state borders of Tennessee, Kentucky, ... > full story -
Scientists Suggest Independent Monitoring of Deep-Sea Hydrocarbon Industry
May 12, 2011 — Scientists have called for increased discussion of independent monitoring of deep-sea hydrocarbon industry activity with the aim of obtaining a better understanding of its ecological ... > full story -
How Does the Mississippi River Change When the Levee Breaks?
May 6, 2011 — USGS scientists are measuring the amount of water spilling into the New Madrid floodway as a result of the recent intentional breaching of the Birds Point Levee in Missouri. The measurements are ... > full story -
Does the Central Andean Backarc Have the Potential for a Great Earthquake?
May 8, 2011 — The region east of the central Andes Mountains has the potential for larger scale earthquakes than previously expected. Previous research had set the maximum expected earthquake size to be magnitude ... > full story -
Practice Can Make Search-and-Rescue Robot Operators More Accurate
May 5, 2011 — Urban search and rescue task forces are essential for locating, stabilizing, and extricating people who become trapped in confined spaces following a catastrophic event. Sometimes the search area is ... > full story -
NASA Technology Looks Inside Japan's Nuclear Reactor
April 28, 2011 — Design techniques honed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for Mars rovers were used to create the rover currently examining the inside of Japan's nuclear reactors, in areas not ... > full story -
Taking Safety Personally
April 28, 2011 — A year after the BP explosion and oil spill, those trying to find someone to blame are misguided, says a psychological scientist. He has spent much of his 42-year career developing interventions to ... > full story -
Novel Ash Analysis Validates Volcano No-Fly Zones
April 26, 2011 — Air safety authorities essentially had to fly blind when the ash cloud from Eyjafjallajökull caused them to close the airspace over Europe last year. Now nanoscientists have developed a way to ... > full story -
Port Valdez Invertebrates Stabilized 26 Years After Alaska's Great Earthquake
April 25, 2011 — It took 26 years for marine invertebrates living on the Port Valdez seafloor to stabilize after Alaska's Great Earthquake of 1964, according to a scientist at the University of Alaska ... > full story
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