Archive for the ‘Natural hazards’ Category

  • Shock and aftershock in Haiti
    Shock and aftershock in Haiti

    Aftershocks and triggered earthquakes both follow a large earthquake, and they don’t happen at random. Can lessons about the sequence and timing of quakes improve safety?


    Thursday, January 28th, 2010
  • Fuel Faves: Coffee meets diesel!
    Fuel Faves: Coffee meets diesel!

    Oils in spent coffee grounds are easily converted into biodiesel — a renewable source of transportation energy. Bottoms up for CofFuel?


    Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
  • Earthquake safety: It begins at home
    Earthquake safety: It begins at home

    Construction matters. Hundreds of millions live and work in houses and schools that will collapse in the next earthquake. Chile and California prove that smart engineering saves lives.


    Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
  • Ultimate Storm: What are hurricanes?
    Ultimate Storm: What are hurricanes?

    How do they form? How do we predict their paths? How can we improve predictions?


    Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
  • Winter’s Weird Weather: What’s the Cause?

    Some call it Fall. Some call it spring. But nobody in the Midwest, East Coast or Northern Europe is calling it “winter.” What’s up with our weather?


    Thursday, January 11th, 2007
  • Trees: Natural Barrier to Tsunami Waves?

    Could something as simple, cheap and natural as a forest protect a coastline from a tsunami’s titanic wave? It’s looking that way…


    Thursday, October 27th, 2005
  • Katrina’s Whirlwind: Could Marshes Slow the Floods?

    As New Orleans sinks and the seas rise, hurricanes are getting worse. Does it make sense to start restoring marshes and barrier islands that dampen the hurricanes? Could wetlands moderate the next Katrina?


    Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
  • Hurricane Katrina: Another sign of global warming?

    Is global warming feeding hurricanes? Global warming has already raised sea levels. Is warming also making hurricanes like Katrina more intense? Some new evidence says yes.


    Thursday, September 8th, 2005
  • Zoonotic Disease — Bugs Jump to People

    Monkeypox, AIDS, SARS: Are more diseases jumping from animals to people, or is it just our imagination?


    Thursday, July 3rd, 2003
  • Baseball Science

    Throw a curve ball. Evade the rainstorm. And don’t get mouth cancer. It’s all in an afternoon’s ball game.


    Thursday, April 4th, 2002


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