A former head of Welsh Water has claimed Wales should profit from transferring water to England. John Elfed Jones, former chairman and chief executive of the company, says water is a business and, like...
I’ve been following the progress of the upcoming Great Utah ShakeOut and I’m really pleased with what I’ve seen to date. Perhaps what’s most impressive is the number of participants, which continues to climb...
The Mariana Trench isn’t really the deep, narrow furrow that the word “trench” implies. Rather, the abyss marks the location of a subduction zone. Subduction zones occur where one part of the seabed—in this...
A fungal disease that has killed more than 5.5 million bats is continuing to spread across North America. White-nose syndrome, first recorded in New York in 2006, is now present in 20 states and...
A competition to develop next-generation robots capable of saving lives in disaster zones has been unveiled by the Pentagon’s advanced research laboratory. Darpa says it wants “adaptable robots with the ability to use human...
(Reuters) – As weather disasters strike with more frequency, homeowners first get hit with the destruction or total loss of property. Many are then hit with the unexpected loss of homeowners insurance policies as...
The Pentagon plans to increase its fleet of armed and long-haul surveillance drones by at least 45 percent over the next 10 years. The U.S. military’s inventory of unmanned aerial vehicles, will grow to...
(multimedia) Britain is seeking to follow in America’s footsteps by heading east and beefing up its military presence in Asia. The Prime Ministers of Japan and the UK are negotiating a massive arms deal and...
Prof. Augusto Mangini of the University of Heidelberg in Germany is an expert for temperature reconstructions usingstalactites and stalagmites. He was allowed to speak a whole 15 minutes at the World Extreme Weather Congress in...
A study published this week in the journal Cancer shows that people who have had dental X-rays are more likely to develop a type of brain tumor called meningioma than those who have not....
