Natural disasters, Nature, Videos & Documentaries, Jun 11th, 2012,
Wildfires have forced the evacuation of hundreds of residents in the US states of New Mexico and Colorado. An area of 30 sq mi (78 sq km) across both states was burned up by the fires over the weekend. The blaze consumed 18 buildings in Colorado and 40 in one area New Mexico in just two days. From ABC News: Hundreds of residents have been evacuated. Authorities sent at least 2,575 evacuation notices to phone numbers but it wasn’t clear how many residents had to leave, according to ABC News Station KMGH-TV in Denver. The scent of smoke from…
Tags: Colorado, New Mexico, wildfires
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Jun 23rd, 2010,
I’ll bet when you think of all the studies being done on CO2 and Global Warming, you probably figure a lot of it has to do with the atmosphere or the ocean or plants of some kind—since that’s what it seems to affect the most. However, scientists have recently developed a method for finding and tracking CO2 underground. Why underground? Well, consider that a lot of emissions come from power plants—coal plants and the like—so, scientists started investigating underground caverns, fissures and coal beds to find places where those emissions can be stored; thus reducing the amount of greenhouse gases…
Tags: atmosphere, carbon dioxide, co2, coal beds, coal seam, global warming, greenhouse gases, New Mexico, perfluorocarbon, tracing, tracking, underground
