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- Discoveries in the Sulawesi Sea
- Natural Disasters: 2010 Was A Deadly Year
- Simulating Landslides in a Flume
- Disaster Tourism in Indonesia
- Huge Plasma Explosions on Saturn
- Critical Materials and Clean Energy
- Red Sea Basin Oil and Gas
- Indiana Will Buy and Resell Natural Gas – $6.9 Billion
- Bu Tinah Island, Abu Dhabi: A New Seven Wonders?
| Discoveries in the Sulawesi Sea Posted: 19 Dec 2010 10:02 PM PST “New submarine volcanoes, a large hydrothermal field with a thriving exotic animal ecosystem and areas rich with deep-sea ocean animals are among the discoveries reported today by U.S. and Indonesian scientists who explored the largely unknown deep Sulawesi Sea last summer off the coast of Indonesia. “ |
| Natural Disasters: 2010 Was A Deadly Year Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:58 PM PST ABC News reports that 2010 was the deadliest year for natural disasters in over a generation. Earthquakes, heat, drought, floods, volcanoes, tropical storms, winter storms and landslides killed over 250,000 people. |
| Simulating Landslides in a Flume Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:52 PM PST An article on the ScienceMag website describes a USGS project that simulates landslides in a flume that is two meters wide, 100 meters long and is installed on a very steep hill. If you want to watch raw videos of the landslide flume experiments and read documentation you can find them on the USGS website. They have about 12 hours of videos documenting the 124 experiments conducted at the USGS debris-flow flume from 1992 to 2009 |
| Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:49 PM PST Tourism typically accounts for about 3% of Indonesia’s gross domestic product. The recent eruption of Mount Merapi almost stopped the flow of tourists to Yogyakarta. However, a new business of “disaster tourism” is developing in Indonesia because people want to see the impact of the volcano in person. An article on the Reuters website explores several opportunities and problems of this new business. |
| Huge Plasma Explosions on Saturn Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:45 PM PST “A new analysis based on data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft finds a causal link between mysterious, periodic signals from Saturn’s magnetic field and explosions of hot ionized gas, known as plasma, around the planet.” Quoted from the NASA press release.
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| Critical Materials and Clean Energy Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:31 PM PST he United States is on the cusp of a clean energy revolution. In its first Critical Materials Strategy, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) focuses on materials |
| Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:21 PM PST “The U.S. Geological Survey estimated mean volumes of 5 billion barrels of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and 112 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas in the Red Sea Basin Province using a geology-based assessment methodology.” Quoted from Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Red Sea Basin Province. |
| Indiana Will Buy and Resell Natural Gas – $6.9 Billion Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:06 PM PST The state of Indiana will enter into a $6.9 billion, 30-year contract to purchase natural gas produced from a coal-gasification facility in southern Indiana. The state plans to resell the gas to local utility companies. A goal is to keep their energy money within the state. |
| Bu Tinah Island, Abu Dhabi: A New Seven Wonders? Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:00 PM PST Bu Tinah Island, off the coast of Abu Dhabi is one of the world’s few nearly unspoiled islands. It has an incredible diversity of wildlife and has been nominated for the new Seven Wonders of the Natural World. |
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