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Young Scientist Makes Breakthrough in Solar Energy Storage
Anders Bo Skov, a student at the University of Copenhagen, has achieved a breakthrough in solar energy storage with the aid of his supervisor, Mogens Brondsted Nielsen. Together they have published th...
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USGS report correlates earthquake triggering to human activity
A newly released report from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has for the first time attempted to establish a connection between human activities such as fracking with earthquake occurrence. Even tho...
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Penn State Researchers Develop New Technique for Identifying Shale-drilling Additives in Drinking Water
Researchers at Penn State University have developed a new analytical technique for identifying common drilling substances in drinking water. Using the technique, the scientists reported contamination...
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Life After Dam Removal, Rivers Respond Quickly
A study performed by the U.S. Geological survey and published in Science reveals that rivers respond quickly to dam removal. In the past forty years, more than 1000 dams have been removed from US rive...
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Airport melt water responsible for soil contamination, new study finds
A new study, conducted from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany, indicates that melt waters in airports are responsible for soil contamination. Various de-icing fluids used in airpo...
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Ethiopia's geothermal energy monitored and mapped
Aluto volcano, Ethiopia's main source of geothermal energy is in the center of attention, for a group of scientists from U.K. and Ethiopia, who using advanced monitoring techniques, are exploring the...
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Thawing Permafrost: Feeds Arctic Microbes, Climate Change
Scientists at Florida State University are researching the fate of carbon released from during the thawing of long frozen permafrost soils in the arctic. According to their Geophysical Research Letter...
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Groundwater flow is now better monitored following new study
Accurate measurement of water flow has been for years difficult to perform, not to mention prediction of the water's path which is easily altered by the smallest soil details. Very fine details diverg...
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Video: NASA generated landslide map reveals most landslide prone areas!
Rain-induced landslides have hit a death toll of nearly 20,000 since 2007. For an overview of the landslides' locations NASA has updated the open source Global Landslide Catalog. The video released by...
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Tracing Chemical Contaminants in the Subsurface
As water scarcity becomes an ever larger problem, Felipe de Barros, assistant professor at the University of Southern California, is working to find new methods of predicting pollution in groundwater....
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