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Core samples taken from a stand of old growth Douglas-fir trees in the South Beach area just south of Newport showed reduced growth following the 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck the Pacific Northwest in 1700.
Smoke from several large wildfires burning in Northern California can be seen traveling miles into the atmosphere.
As China’s economic development continues, energy demand is rising along with it. Meeting this energy demand via fossil fuels is becoming increasingly undesirable, because it poses environmental and climate risks.
The research showed that a remote sensing method known as LiDAR could track damage progression on structures as the waves and storm surges increased in intensity.
For a few minutes on Sunday, solar energy supplied more than half of Australia’s power generation, marking the first time that solar has outstripped coal in a country long dependent on fossil fuels to produce electricity, The Guardian reported.
In a first, researchers measured and tracked the chemical transformation of pollutants as the eruption was underway.
