A damaged earthen dam holding back a lake swollen by runoff from the remnants of a tropical storm was still at risk of failing Thursday and inundating a small Native American village near the U.S.-Mexico border, officials ...
Engineering
Oct 4, 2018
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The past two weekends my summer routine of riding my bike on the Long Beach boardwalk to the gym has been interrupted by major rain storms. Instead, I drove to the gym and watched the water accumulate and drain from Long ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 14, 2018
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Hurricane Harvey, which at the beginning of the week has hit the US state of Texas with devastating damage and now rages over Louisiana, is in third place among the world's most expensive storm disasters. This was found out ...
Environment
Nov 27, 2017
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A system for predicting storm damage by waves in northern areas of the North Sea has been developed by mathematicians at the University of Strathclyde.
Earth Sciences
Jul 7, 2016
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Software to help protect forests from storm damage is being released today by Forest Research, the research agency of the Forestry Commission.
Environment
Oct 7, 2015
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(Phys.org) —The wet and windy weather that has battered Britain's coasts this winter has brought misery to many, but for researchers at the University at Cambridge the storm damage is providing vital data that could help ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 17, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Coral reefs on Australia's Great Barrier Reef devastated by cyclone Yasi were replenished by large numbers of coral larvae nine months after the cyclone.
Environment
Jun 6, 2013
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(AP)—The flying machine that ushered in NASA's space shuttle program has suffered storm damage in New York City.
Space Exploration
Nov 3, 2012
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Urban farming is being taken to new heights in an abandoned Chicago pork processing plant where environmentalists hope to "get off the grid" by using the waste from one crop to feed and power another.
Other
Jul 4, 2012
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Christopher Karstens, an Iowa State University doctoral student from Atlantic, was studying a deadly Alabama tornado when he noticed high winds from the storm traveled along valleys and knocked down trees. He built a 3-D ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 9, 2012
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