News tagged with road construction
Highway through Amazon worsens effects of climate change, provides mixed economic gains
Paving a highway across South America is providing lessons on the impact of road construction elsewhere.
May 31, 2012 |
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Generating electricity from vibrations in road surface works
A pilot research project into vibration energy on the N34 provincial motorway near Hardenberg in the eastern Netherlands has shown that vibration energy as a local energy source is a sustainable alternative ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 01, 2012 |
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New program to expand, enhance use of LIDAR sensing technology
Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a new system that will enable highway construction engineers in the field to immediately analyze soil movements caused by active landslides and erosion ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Wild cats roam the Tucson Mountains
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, mountain lions and bobcats have been photographed as part of an in-depth monitoring study in the Tucson Mountains, a small island of habitat facing increasing segregation ...
Oct 22, 2010 |
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Sound waves save roads
Every year roads are built and repaired to the tune of several billions. Intensive efforts are underway all over the world to get 'more road for your money' by developing better methods for both design and quality control ...
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Obama moves to curb road-building in forests
(AP) -- The Obama administration is ordering a one-year moratorium on most road-building and other development on about 50 million acres of remote national forests.
May 29, 2009 |
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China's Great Wall far longer than thought: survey
The most comprehensive and technologically advanced survey of China's Great Wall has discovered the ancient monument is much longer than previously estimated, state media reported Monday.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 20, 2009 |
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