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Arizona State University is working with 3M on a pilot project to lower the temperatures at bus shelters in Tempe. Ahead of installing new shelters throughout the city, Tempe began researching methods to keep the spaces cooler while riders wait for the bus — and that led to a collaboration with ASU and 3M. David Sailor is a professor at the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at ASU. He says researchers are applying a film made by 3M to several bus shelters and measuring the r...

По словам Рафикова, поднимающиеся со дна Аральского моря пыль и соль оседают в радиусе 300–400 километров. Каждую минуту девять квадратных метров Узбекистана превращаются в пустыню. Экологические и геоэкологические проблемы растут день ото дня. Но борьба с опустыниванием �...

City of CT’s drip system plan punishing the most vulnerable - UCT researcher 10 June 2021 3:44 PM Share This: CapeTalk host Lester Kiewit chats to UCT researcher Dr. Suraya Scheba about the City of Cape Towns new approach to domestic water metering. The City of CTs new water management approach has been slammed for being anti-poor The municipality plans to scrap water management device meters and will implement a new system to manage water usage in indigent households The plan includes th...

Why space-based satellites are crucial to achieve climate change goals 4th Year PhD Cancer Immunology A new report, led by researchers at the University of Bristol, outlines the importance of space-based Earth Observation satellites in monitoring the causes, effects and management of global warming. The report aims to drive useful policy change at the 26th ‘conference of the parties’ (COP26) meeting to be hosted this November, in Glasgow. Countries around the globe initially met to discuss ...

The expectation is for higher rain totals in Arizona than what was recorded last year.

Scientists from Australia have recently announced a sharp fall in the abundance of coral along the Great Barrier Reef.

Burnings, bombings, bodies and the destruction of “Black Wall Street” — the Greenwood District of Tulsa — 100 years ago continue to haunt survivors and younger generations who now are breaking the culture of silence that has long surrounded the event. Here, ASU professors recount their personal and academic experiences with the Oklahoma massacre.

A look at recent graduates in a mostly remote world Editors note: This story originally appeared in the summer 2021 issue of ASU Thrive magazine. It has been more than a year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. In a matter of days, many businesses, schools and other organizations were forced to take operations remote to slow the virus’s spread. ASU students had to connect with their professors through webcams, halt their extracurricular activities and, for the gr...

 E-Mail Australian researchers recently reported a sharp decline in the abundance of coral along the Great Barrier Reef. Scientists are seeing similar declines in coral colonies throughout the world, including reefs off of Hawaii, the Florida Keys and in the Indo-Pacific region. The widespread decline is fueled in part by climate-driven heat waves that are warming the worlds oceans and leading to whats known as coral bleaching, the breakdown of the mutually beneficial relationship between cora...

Kevin Vora As a master’s degree student in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Vora joined KER to gain more experience in data analytics. He found that and more. “I actually feel myself putting the skills to the right use and bringing some impact here,” he said. “I am able to publish my results, and our researchers put them to the right use.” In his position as data analytics research aide, Vora analyzed COVID-19 cases by geographic region and found they resembled a patchwork of...