Refugee camps built in the Bangladeshi hillside are vulnerable to sudden landslides, so scientists from NASA and Columbia University are looking for solutions to avoid additional land loss.
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Health Threat From Blue-Green Blooms Extends Beyond Single Toxin
As blue-green algae proliferates around the world, a University of Saskatchewan (USask) researcher cautions that current municipal drinking water monitoring that focuses on a single toxin associated with the cyanobacteria blooms is likely to miss the true public health risks.
French Earthquake Fault Mapped
This week, southeast France was hit by a magnitude 5 earthquake with tremors felt between Lyon and Montélimar. The Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar mission has been used to map the way the ground shifted as a result of the quake.
Globe Had Its 2nd-Hottest October and Year to Date on Record
Planet Earth continued to sweat in unrelenting heat last month making October 2019 the second-hottest October recorded, just behind 2015.
Mars Scientists Investigate Ancient Life in Australia
Could Mars ever have supported life? In the Australian Outback, scientists visited the oldest convincing evidence for life on Earth to prepare for their own searches for signs of ancient life on Mars.
Amazon Deforestation and Number of Fires Show Summer of 2019 Not a ‘Normal’ Year
The fires that raged across the Brazilian Amazon this summer were not ‘normal’ and large increases in deforestation could explain why, scientists show.