The wildfires raging throughout California—the Getty fire in Los Angeles and the Kincade fire in Northern California among the most recent ones—have caused great concern about air quality and the safety of being outdoors.
Environment
Oct 30, 2019
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As new hurricanes gain strength in the Atlantic, residents of the Bahamas have barely begun recovering from destroyed villages and flooded streets brought by Hurricane Dorian's battering this month. The losses were grim validation ...
Environment
Sep 24, 2019
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Climate change is here to stay, and so is its impact on the agricultural sector. Studies show that consequences of 1 degree C rise in the global temperatures can affect the crop yield in some countries. Crop revenue can drop ...
Agriculture
Aug 30, 2022
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Brazilian communities that are vulnerable to devastating floods are being united and empowered to defend themselves, using 'citizen science' and a specially developed mobile app, thanks to two research projects led by the ...
Environment
Mar 2, 2020
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The southern pygmy perch hadn't been seen in Bendigo Creek since the mid-19th-century goldrush, when a booming town sprang up around the central Victorian waterway. This attractive small fish, which displays bright colors ...
Ecology
May 13, 2024
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COVID-19 is a health, social, economic and political emergency. It is also a housing emergency.
Social Sciences
Nov 24, 2020
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Toyota is using live-time traffic information from 700,000 Toyota vehicles on Japanese roads to offer what it calls a "big data" service to local governments and businesses that helps drivers during disasters.
Hi Tech & Innovation
May 29, 2013
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A raster expression of a region or one of its eco-environmental properties can be abstracted to a mathematical surface. The mathematical surface is uniquely defined by the intrinsic and extrinsic properties in terms of the ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 6, 2020
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Computational modeling of social networks suggests that vaccination programs are more successful in containing disease when individuals have access to local information about disease prevalence. Anupama Sharma of The Institute ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 23, 2019
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Tropical Cyclone Trevor formed in the Coral Sea of the Southwestern Pacific Ocean on March 18. NASA's Terra satellite analyzed cloud top temperatures in the storm which gave an indication of the storm's strength. Trevor has ...
Environment
Mar 18, 2019
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