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GPS networks are already a crucial part of everyday life around the world, but an international team of scientists has found a new, potentially life-saving use for them: tsunami warnings. Researchers from University College London and universities across Japan studied the ability of the GPS network to detect tsunamis, concluding that instruments can indeed detect […]

The Mediterranean is a cradle — of civilization, of agriculture, of history. But the region, stretching across southern and southeastern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, is also a crucible. Here, different cultures and religions, along with extravagant wealth and material poverty, have intertwined and often collided over the centuries. Today, despite millennia of […]

Snowmelt falls under the category of a significant freshwater resource, consisting of over one-sixth of the world’s population that depends on it for water.

In 1958, an earthquake in Alaska triggered the largest wave ever recorded on Earth, which reached a maximum height greater than the Empire State Building.

Job: Associate or Full Professor- NOAA CESSRST - City College of Ney York New York City, NY, United States

This article looks at Wang, B. & Huang, L.'s study published in Frontiers in Earth Science, which looks at a polarization migration velocity model building method for geological prediction ahead of tunnel faces.

According to an EPFL study, if we take immediate measures to reduce CO2 emissions, we could limit the rise in the temperature of Swiss rivers to 1 degree Celsius between now and 2090 without drastically affecting their discharge. Inaction, on the other hand, would threaten ecosystems and jeopardize the country's agriculture sector and electricity production.

If we take immediate measures to reduce CO2 emissions, we could limit the rise in the temperature of Swiss rivers to 1°C between now and 2090 without…

NOAA, William & Mary researchers team with TACC to develop, test first-ever 3D compound inland-coastal flooding guidance system