News tagged with early warning

Sudden Collapse in Ancient Biodiversity: Was Global Warming the Culprit?

Scientists have unearthed striking evidence for a sudden ancient collapse in plant biodiversity. A trove of 200 million-year-old fossil leaves collected in East Greenland tells the story, carrying its message ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 5

Tsunami airglow signature could lead to early detection system (w/Video)

Researchers at the University of Illinois have become the first to record an airglow signature in the upper atmosphere produced by a tsunami using a camera system based in Maui, Hawaii.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

'Happy' Bhutan alarmed by Himalayan climate change

Bhutan's prime minister has issued a dire warning about the impact of Himalayan climate change, saying it could wreck the tiny kingdom's ambitious plans to be a world leader in hydropower.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 24, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Seismologists urge creation of earthquake early warning system along Pacific Coast

Following a closed-door summit at UC Berkeley, leading West Coast seismologists recommended in a news conference today (Tuesday, April 5) the establishment of an earthquake early warning system in California, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New early warning system for landslide prediction

A new type of sound sensor system has been developed to predict the likelihood of a landslide.

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 21, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Seismic recordings of rockfall a step toward early-warning system in Yosemite

Hardly anyone noticed the ruckus when Yosemite Valley's largest rockfall in two decades thundered down near Half Dome before sunrise one March morning -- but scientists will hear all about it soon.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Early warning system would predict space storms on Mars

Space weather storms will make living on Mars challenging. The first group of colonists won't need umbrellas; they will need safe houses with 30-foot thick walls made of Martian clay that can withstand radiation ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Microbes travel through the air; it would be good to know how and where

Preliminary research on Fusarium, a group of fungi that includes devastating pathogens of plants and animals, shows how these microbes travel through the air. Researchers now believe that with improvements on thi ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

US scientists testing earthquake early warning

Elizabeth Cochran was sitting in her office when her computer suddenly sounded an alarm.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Smoke particles are not all the 'SAME'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Where there's smoke, you need a functioning smoke detector that can tell the difference between, say, smoke particles and dust. Yet in the microgravity environment of the International Space ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

University of Brighton design students makes biking safer with BLAZE projection system

(PhysOrg.com) -- Emily Brooke, a design student at the University of Brighton, may just be the best friend that a biker has ever had. Anyone who has tried to ride a bike on crowded city streets knows how much ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 7 | with audio podcast weblog

Journal highlights forest service early warning system

A national early warning system designed to assist land managers in rapidly detecting threats to forest health is featured in the cover article of the October 2009 issue of Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (PE&RS), ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

White House orders review of energy loans

The White House Friday ordered a probe into US government loans to clean energy firms, after a solar panel company took a half billion dollar Energy Department loan guarantee and then went bankrupt.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 32

15 new conservation concerns

A review carried out by a group of international specialists has identified several emerging issues that are likely to damage biodiversity in the coming years.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Monitoring system warns of slippery slopes

Doren in the Austrian Bregenzerwald, February 2007: a slope 650 meters long breaks, resulting in a massive slide into the valley below. The nearest residential buildings are very close to the 70-meter-high ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0