A decade after beginning work on an earthquake early warning system, scientists and engineers are fine-tuning a U.S. West Coast prototype that could be in limited public use in 2018.
ShakeAlert System Continues Progress toward Public Use
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Traffic pollution putting unborn babies' health at risk, warn experts
Traffic pollution, but not traffic noise, linked to low birth weight
Air pollution from road traffic is having a detrimental impact upon babies’ health in London, before they are born, finds a study.
Stress Test: New Study Finds Seals are Stressed-Out by Sharks
Researchers test the effects predators have on their prey’s cortisol levels in the wild
Freezing trees, finding answers
Researchers study impact of ice storms, climate change
More-severe climate model predictions could be the most accurate: study
The climate models that project greater amounts of warming this century are the ones that best align with observations of the current climate, according to a new paper from Carnegie’s Patrick Brown and Ken Caldeira published by Nature. Their findings suggest that the models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, on average, may be underestimating future warming.
Climate model simulations are used to predict how much warming should be expected for any given increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
New species discovered in Malaysian rainforest during unprecedented, top-to-bottom survey
California Academy of Sciences team joins Malaysian colleagues to survey region’s rich biodiversity; data to support UNESCO nomination.
