News tagged with underwater city

Engineering images bring life to submerged city

(PhysOrg.com) -- Photo-realistic 3D mapping and digital reconstruction of an ancient underwater city in Greece have earned a team from the University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Pavlopetri -- the world's oldest known submerged town

The world's oldest known submerged town has been revealed through the discovery of late Neolithic pottery. The finds were made during an archaeological survey of Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 5




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In '72, EPA battled pollution; now it's politics

(AP) -- A polluted drainage ditch that once flowed with industrial waste from Lake Charles, La., petrochemical plants teems with overgrown, wild plants today.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Mexicans return beached whale to sea

Volunteers and Navy personnel returned a 12-tonne whale to the sea after it became stranded on a beach in the southwestern Mexican city of Oaxaca, officials said Saturday.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Now Extra-Tropical Daphne, left flooding behind in Fuji on NASA satellite imagery

Tropical Storm Daphne has become an extra-tropical storm and is fading fast in the South Pacific Ocean, but not before making its mark on the Fuji Islands. NASA's TRMM satellite compiled rainfall data that ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

35,000 gallons of prevention: Containing a tunnel flood with an inflatable stopper

Twenty years ago in Chicago, a small leak in an unused freight tunnel expanded beneath the Windy City and started a flood which eventually gushed through the entire tunnel system. A quarter-million people ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Santorini: The ground is moving again in paradise

Do a Google image search for "Greece." Before you find pictures of the Parthenon or Acropolis, you'll see several beautiful photos of Santorini, the picturesque island in the Aegean Sea. The British Broadcasting ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Full Titanic site mapped for 1st time

Researchers have pieced together what's believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field and hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened the night 100 ...

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created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Aquatic robot audits health of seabed

The watery depths of Western Australia's Ningaloo coast will be audited by marine engineers and scientists this week using an aquatic robot and technology developed by University of Sydney mechatronic experts.

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created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Everest climber highlights flood threat in Himalayas

(AP) -- Before Apa became a legendary Sherpa mountaineer, he was a humble Himalayan potato farmer who worked his fields in the Everest foothills until, without warning, raging floodwaters swallowed his farm.

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created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Supreme Court rejects emergency carp measures

(AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to order emergency measures that might prevent Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes, despite a warning that the exotic fish pose a "dire threat" to the region's ...

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created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Land-ocean connections

Scientists from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii – Manoa (UHM) and colleagues recently discovered that land-based plant material and coastal macroalgae ...

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created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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