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One California wildfire is threatening over 12,000 homes. Other wildfires across the nation are threatening many thousands more homes not to mention the lives of animals and humans living in the wildfire areas. Most of these fires are caused by natural events such as lightening strikes but several of the fires are being blamed on [...]
If physicians report an injured worker totally disabled, what happens if he looks for work while he waits to see if he gets workers comp benefits?
John DeHaven shoulder injury at work in April 2005. He received benefits for temporary total disability until November 2005 when he took a light duty position with his employer.
Three months [...]
The massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck the west coast of Chile last month moved the entire city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west, and shifted other parts of South America as far apart as the Falkland Islands and Fortaleza, Brazil.
These preliminary steps, produced from data collected by researchers at four universities [...]
In the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, the production offices and new son are reassessing how to keep their offices effectively with crises and to better communicate with journalists on the ground in affected areas.
In February, the directors of the new U.S. office and journalists gathered in Washington, DC, to discuss leadership and appropriate [...]
Chemicals that helped solve a global environmental crisis in the 1990s — the hole in Earth’s protective ozone layer — may be making another problem — acid rain — worse, scientists are reporting. Their study on the chemicals that replaced the ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) once used in aerosol spray cans, air conditioners, refrigerators, and other [...]
A 9 cubic millimeter solar-powered sensor system developed at the University of Michigan is the smallest that can harvest energy from its surroundings to operate nearly perpetually.
Processors The unified messaging system, solar cells, and battery are all contained in her small frame, which measures 2.5 by 3.5 by 1 mm. It is 1000 times smaller [...]
For 80 years it has been accepted that early life began in a ‘primordial soup’ of organic molecules before evolving out of the oceans millions of years later. Today the ’soup’ theory has been over turned in a pioneering paper in BioEssays which claims it was the Earth’s chemical energy, from hydrothermal vents on the [...]
Biodiversity in freshwater systems is impacted as much or more by environmental change than tropical rain forests, according to University of Oklahoma Professor Caryn Vaughn, who serves as director of the Oklahoma Biological Survey. “When we think about species becoming extinct, we don’t necessarily think of the common species in freshwater systems, many of which [...]
An innovative cardiac scanner will dramatically improve the process of diagnosing heart conditions. The portable magnetometer* is being developed at the University of Leeds.
With its unmatched sensitivity to magnetic fluctuations the device will detect a number of conditions, including heart problems in the fetus earlier than the diagnostic techniques currently available, such as ultrasound, ECG [...]
Researchers at the science of Earth Observation (EOS) group based at the Center for Space Research at the University of Leicester have published satellite images of the United Kingdom for a week in which most areas have been covered by snow.
The images were captured by the Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) on board the ENVISAT [...]
