Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology has successfully developed a "three-dimensional liquefaction hazard map" that visually presents ground liquefaction forecasts in the event of an earthquake.
Earth Sciences
Apr 19, 2023
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As a major industrial base and comprehensive transportation hub in northwest China, Lanzhou is an important node city on the Silk Road Economic Belt. Due to its special industrial structure and typical landform, it has long ...
Environment
Feb 10, 2023
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The Tibetan Plateau has experienced prominent warming and wetting since the mid-1990s that has altered the thermal and hydrological properties of its frozen ground. In a new study, published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 22, 2022
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For a researcher who studies wildfire, University of Montana graduate student Kyra Clark-Wolf couldn't have had better timing.
Ecology
Oct 24, 2022
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Humpback whales may one day avoid Hawaiian waters due to climate change and rising greenhouse gasses, according the findings of a new paper published in Frontiers in Marine Science by a team of researchers including three ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 5, 2022
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Tiny shifts in the land surface across the whole of Germany have been mapped for the first time, with the help of the Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar mission.
Earth Sciences
Nov 4, 2020
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Conjugated polymers are organic macromolecules that are characterized by a backbone chain of alternating double and single bonds. Their overlapping p-orbitals create a cloud of delocalised π-electrons, which can result in ...
Polymers
Oct 5, 2020
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Emerging use of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) makes it possible to continuously measure shallow changes in elevation of Earth surface. A study by the University of Bonn now shows that the quality of these measurements ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 23, 2020
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Last season's bushfires directly killed 34 people and devastated more than 8 million hectares of land along the south-eastern fringe of Australia.
Earth Sciences
Jun 10, 2020
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A spring surge of meltwater, seeping through vertically tilted layers of rock, caused a seismic swarm near California's Long Valley Caldera in 2017, according to research presented at the 2019 SSA Annual Meeting.
Earth Sciences
Apr 25, 2019
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