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Drought, Urbanization Were Ingredients for Atlanta's Perfect Storm (Video)

On March 14, 2008, a tornado swept through downtown Atlanta, its 130 mile-per-hour winds ripping holes in the roof of the Georgia Dome, blowing out office windows and trashing parts of Centennial Olympic Park. ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Researchers conclude that climate change led to collapse of ancient Indus civilization

A new study combining the latest archaeological evidence with state-of-the-art geoscience technologies provides evidence that climate change was a key ingredient in the collapse of the great Indus or Harappan Civilization ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

Advanced power-grid research finds low-cost, low-carbon future in West

The least expensive way for the Western U.S. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 73 | with audio podcast

Advanced power-grid model finds low-cost, low-carbon future in West

(PhysOrg.com) -- The least expensive way for the Western U.S. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

Water lilies cause massive Philippines flooding

More than half a million people in the southern Philippines have been affected by flooding after water lilies clogged the country's second longest river, officials said Monday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Could 'hotspots' in burn offs aid tuart regeneration?

Murdoch University academics are investigating whether creating ‘hotspots’ in controlled burn offs in tuart forests will effectively stimulate regeneration in the trees.

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Study shows that hitchhiking bacteria can go against the flow

A new study co-authored by professor Kam Tang of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science reveals that tiny aquatic organisms known as "water fleas" play an important role in carrying hitchhiking bacteria ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Florida tests inventors' sand-cleaning ideas

(AP) -- Some inventors came with cotton fiber rolls, others with oil-clumping polymer mixes and one brought a specially designed rake. Their task: clean layers of crude oil and tar from a once-pristine Florida ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Agatha drenches Guatemala and El Salvador, remnants now in Caribbean

Tropical Storm Agatha was the first tropical storm of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season, and took an inland route, drenching El Salvador and Guatemala this past weekend.

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created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In Upstate New York, 42,225 Daily Temperature Readings, and Counting

Every day since Jan. 1, 1896, an observer has hiked to a spot at The Mohonk Preserve, a resort and nature area some 90 miles north of New York City, to record daily temperature and other conditions there. ...

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created May 07, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (11) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

Tropical Storm Patricia approaches Mexico

(AP) -- Officials closed schools and readied emergency shelters as Tropical Storm Patricia neared Mexico's Los Cabos resorts on Tuesday.

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created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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