The huge tsunami triggered by the 9.0 Tohoku Earthquake destroyed coastal towns, washing such things as houses and cars into the ocean. Projections of where this debris might head have been made.
The huge tsunami triggered by the 9.0 Tohoku Earthquake destroyed coastal towns, washing such things as houses and cars into the ocean. Projections of where this debris might head have been made.
With birds chirping and temperatures warming , spring is finally in the air. But for University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) environmental chemist Torsten Meyer, springtime has a dark side.
A hurricane-like superstorm expected to hit California once every 200 years would cause devastation to the state’s businesses unheard of even in the Great Recession, a USC economist warns.
UC Davis experiment with ants, lizards and seaweed on a dozen Caribbean islands shows that predicting the effects of environmental change on complex natural ecosystems requires a large laboratory.
Scientists have taken a major step toward accurately determining the amount of energy that the sun provides to Earth, and how variations in that energy may contribute to climate change.
If humans don’t moderate their use of fossil fuels, there is a real possibility that we will face the environmental, societal and economic consequences of climate change faster than we can adapt to them.
A climate and weather monitoring system developed at Oregon State University will be used to help underwrite and verify claims of crop losses to improve services to farmers and prevent abuse in crop insurance program.
Scientists demonstrate that atmospheric aerosols above the Amazon rainforest are mainly produced by biological sources and are able to draw conclusions about the mechanisms of this ecosystem.
A UA-led team of geologists reports that glaciers can help actively growing mountains become taller – contrary to the conventional view that the only role for glaciers in mountain formation is shrinking them through erosion.
Scientists from OSU and China have identified a series of potentially harmful compounds in the smoke emitted from a "roasting" process used to recycle electronic waste.
