A team led by Kyle Horton, a Rose postdoctoral fellow at the lab, rankedmetropolitan areaswhere, due to a combination of light pollution and geography,birdsare at the greatest risk of becoming attracted to and disoriented by lights and crashing into buildings. Among their findings: Whilemigration...
Don't let the rolling fields of corn and hog lots fool you; The state of Iowa has more than its fair share of dangerous roads and intersections. And while most are in the state's urban areas, some of the most hazardous can be found on rural roads. According toBad Intersections, one ...
the ATFF team had to wear special safety suits and communicate closely with off-site staff to notify them of their exact movements. Because aerial drones weren’t allowed to overfly in urban areas such as the nearby city served by the site, all scanning was completed with stationary hardware....
Extreme heat alerts were active Monday for more than 20 million people across the Southwest, where various heat watches and warnings were set to become effective Tuesday and remain in place through Thursday in several areas, including vast swaths of Arizona, California and N...
on the Pacific Coast, had posted photos she’d taken of deep, funnel-like openings in off-trail areas there. Pavlis told me she calls them “tree holes.” As in Indiana, wandering dunes are burying old forests. But no scientists have studied the Oregon holes, and their origins remain...
In particular, sectors such as tourism or retail sales fall due to individuals' preventive measures, such as reduction in traveling to the affected areas or avoidance of public places. In the case of SARS, Hanna and Yiping (2004) estimate the total cost at about 0.5% of GDP in China, ...
Excluding theextended 35 yearsof no global warming in Antarctica, the average for the rest of the regional areas drops to 9.1 years. From each region's pause 'Start Date, the table includes the correlation and r-squared between the region's temperature anomalies and NOAA's CO2 atmospheric CO2...
Apart from the wild ride of the last quarter-century’s politics, FmH posts reflect other areas that grab me in my reading and thinking. At times I have tried to examine and explain new developments in my areas of professional interest, psychiatry and neuropsychiatry, although that is sort of...
the media promulgation of maps showing concentric areas of damage seriously impacting cities like St. Louis, Nashville, Birmingham, Little Rock, Jackson and Chicago started to get people taking the danger seriously. Children were kept home from school during the danger days. T.V. crews descended ...
“urban heat-island effect” has several causes—including traffic and city layout. But its principal cause is simply that paved environments absorb more heat, whose release then warms the surrounding air. Daytime temperatures are 1-3°C higher in American cities than in surrounding rural areas;...