Design could save truck fuel with turbulence-cutting electric wind generators
Researchers are experimenting with reducing drag on trucks with electric wind devices that mimic the way vortex generators increase lift on airplane wings.
Air could be the world’s next battery
Wind and sun, two unpredictable resources, are becoming ever more important as sources of energy in Europe. This means that we face a growing...
Asian dust providing key nutrients for California’s giant sequoias
Dust from as far away as the Gobi Desert in Asia is providing more nutrients than previously thought for plants, including giant sequoias, in...
Using a method from Wall Street to track slow slipping of Earth’s crust
An indicator for stock prices can be used with GPS data to automatically detect slow-slip earthquakes from a single station's observations, offering a new...
The economic case for wind, solar energy in Africa
To meet skyrocketing demand for electricity, African countries may have to triple their energy output by 2030. While hydropower and fossil fuel power plants...
Zika hot spots in the US predicted
Researchers predicted the places in the continental US where Zika is most likely to be transmitted are along the Mississippi delta and southern states...
Satellites reveal bird habitat loss in California
Reduced seasonal flooding of wetlands and farm fields in California's Sacramento Valley threatens a key stopover site for migratory shorebirds, a new study shows....
More than 100 years of flooding and erosion in one event
Researchers have developed an integrated sediment, wood, and organic carbon budget for North St. Vrain Creek in the semi-arid Colorado Front Range following an...
Local cooling value of forests affirms need for greater forest conservation, protection
Forests take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. At the same time, forests promote the turbulent mixing of air near the surface and transpire...
Planetary waves, first found on Earth, are discovered on sun
The same kind of large-scale planetary waves that meander through the atmosphere high above Earth's surface may also exist on the sun, according to...
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