By Rebekah Kebede PERTH (Reuters) - Thousands of Australians were forced from their homes on Monday because of floods that have risen to record levels in some areas and killed one person, and authorities issued warnings for more than a dozen rivers in Queensland and New South Wales states. [More]
Read More »Tag Archives: thousands
Feed SubscriptionSnakes Compete for Rooftops as Floods Hit East Australia
SYDNEY, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Thousands of Australians were cutoff by floodwaters on Saturday as heavy rain broke river banks [More]
Read More »How Scientists Are Tackling the Bed Bug Nightmare (preview)
The elderly man lived by himself in a low-income apartment near Cincinnati.
Read More »Electron’s negativity cut in half by supercomputer
While physicists at the Large Hadron Collider smash together thousands of protons and other particles to see what matter is made of, they're never going to hurl electrons at each other. No matter how high the energy, the little negative particles won't break apart.
Read More »Scientific American Previews the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
Attending the annual International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is like walking along a loud, crowded boardwalk on a hot summer day. There may not be much sun or sand, but amongst the thousands of tech peddlers who flock there each January, you’ll find no shortage of hype, hoopla and expensive gimmicks
Read More »Good and Possible: Climate Talks, Carbon Capture
In the words of Maite Nkoana-Mashabane * , President of the Durban UN Climate Change Conference, “ we should not let the perfect become the enemy of the good and the possible .” Given the thousands of fossil fuel-fired power plants around the world (including about 3,000 in North American alone), this good and possible likely means a future that includes coal, natural gas, and oil as primary energy resources. So, how can we use these fossil fuels in a more environmentally responsible way within practical constraints? One option could be found in the flexible operation of carbon capture and sequestration technology on the world s coal-fired power plants
Read More »Insight: Chasing High Corn Prices, U.S. Farmers Skip Rotations
By Michael Hirtzer CHENOA, Illinois (Reuters) - Farmer Brian Schaumburg has planted corn for five straight years in some of the thousands of acres he tends in central Illinois. [More]
Read More »Cast Your Vote for the $10,000 People’s Choice Award in the Google Science Fair
Thousands of teenagers from around the world have submitted a science project to the Google Science Fair . Now it's your turn to participate
Read More »Clean Living
With my waders pulled up to my armpits I sloshed into Tasmania’s Great Oyster Bay and pushed my way to the shallows where the baby bivalves floated by the thousands. Since my arrival on Australia’s remote island state several days earlier, I had lunched daily on the plump, delectable shellfish, ...
Read More »