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• Wild Animals
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  Marine Biologists Work To Protect Seahorses By Developing A Breeding Program

  Marine biologists, worried that regular harvesting of wild seahorses may threaten the creature with extinction, have begun breeding them in home aquariums. Caring for seahorses requires a three-step ... > more
• Mining
  Civil Engineering
  Construction
  Caving
  Environmental Science
  Geology
   
  

  Engineers Use Mine Roof Simulator To Increase Mine Safety

  Industrial hygienists, applying geology and engineering, can test mine support systems with the only mine roof simulator of its kind. Using up to 3 million pounds of vertical force and 1.6 million ... > more
• Global Warming
  Environmental Issues
  Climate
  Geography
  Severe Weather
  Hurricanes and Cyclones
   
  

  Meteorologists Find That Increased Ocean Temperatures Cause Increasingly Intense Hurricanes

  Climate change experts studying hurricanes documented a 35-year warming trend in ocean surface temperature and linked it to larger hurricanes. The increase has been 1 degree Fahrenheit, resulting in ... > more
• Environmental Issues
  Natural Disasters
  Earthquakes
  Tsunamis
  Water
  Earth Science
   
  

  Seismologists Devise New Technique To Measure Pollution

  Seismologists have tested a new way to measure the concentration of the dangerous groundwater contaminant Trichloroethylene (TCE). Ultrasonic waves called P-waves are sent through ground containing ... > more
• El Nino and La Nina
  Severe Weather
  Atmosphere
  Climate
  Weather
  Global Warming
   
  

  Geophysicists Blame La Nina Weather For Lost Time

  Geophysicists have identified the very real physical mechanism that can lengthen or shorten the amount of time the earth takes to complete one rotation. During La Nina the temperature of the Pacific ... > more
• Weather
  Severe Weather
  Global Warming
  Storms
  Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Geomagnetic Storms
   
  

  Electrical Engineers Use Regional Airliners To Increase Weather Forecasting Accuracy

  Electrical engineers are providing meteorologists with better information for their forecasts with Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reports. Sensors are placed on regional airliners cruising ... > more
• Construction
  Earthquakes
  Electronics
  Civil Engineering
  Natural Disasters
  Sustainability
   
  

  Architectural Engineers Design Homes To Withstand Earthquakes

  Engineers have designed windows and walls that will not break when shaken by the intense motion caused by earthquakes. By installing glass panels that do not touch the corners of the frame, ... > more
• Computer Science
  Artificial Intelligence
  Information Technology
  Distributed Computing
  Computer Modeling
  Elder Care
   
  

  Computer Scientists Create New Technology For Elderly Home Owners

  Computer scientists have designed technologies to help the elderly maintain their independence. One device uses optical sensors to oversee people as they pick up and use items. Another device uses ... > more
• Recycling and Waste
  Environmental Issues
  Environmental Science
  Sustainability
  Materials Science
  Geography
   
  

  Engineers Create Recycling Plant That Removes The Need To Sort

  Engineers use the term single-stream recycling for their plant that takes the sorting out of the public’s hands. Trucks dump an unsorted mess of paper, plastic, and metal onto a conveyor belt. ... > more
• Wildfires
  Natural Disasters
  Forest
  Sustainability
  Earthquakes
  Desert
   
  

  Geographers Map Likeliest Places For Big Fires

  Foresters and geographers have mapped the locations in the Santa Monica mountains where the most destructive fires are likely to start. To make their map, they combined data about where fires were ... > more

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