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Monday, November 9, 2009

Fire Sensors

New fire-sensing devices can spot a fire in its earliest stages, up to six miles away, and they can relay the information to emergency responders through a computer network and even automatically alert people ...  > full story

Predicting Wildfires

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 likely to start ...  > full story

Saving Lives When Wildfires Burn

Scientists created a way to combine weather data and geographic information systems software in a visual display for use in disaster response. They created a map with a variety of ways to ...  > full story

Growing Greener Lawns

Chemists and engineers designed a technology that protects soil. A polymer encased in recycled paper bonds to positive ions in soil to form clumps. These clods of dirt break up the hard surface that can form ...  > full story
 

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