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In the eye of the storm: Why some people stayed behind
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Hurricane Katrina was the largest natural disaster in U.S. history, claiming the lives of more than 1,800 victims and causing well over $100 billion in damage along the Gulf Coast. The 2005 storm breached every levee in New ...
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IBM Reveals Five Innovations that Will Change Cities in the Next Five Years (w/ Video)
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Today, IBM unveiled a list of innovations that have the potential to change how people live, work and play in cities around the globe over the next five to ten years.
New study analyzing return of businesses to New Orleans after Katrina
Aug 26, 2009 |
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LSU Professor and Chair of Environmental Sciences Nina Lam and Professor and Louisiana Real Estate Commission Chair Kelley Pace, along with colleagues from LSU, Tulane University and Texas State University, will publish the ...
Did termites help Katrina destroy New Orleans floodwalls?
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Oct 14, 2008 |
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Three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, people still speculate over causes of the destruction of the city's floodwall system. A new article in the fall issue of American Entomologist (Vol. 54, No. 3) sug ...
The technology to make 'Speed Racer' cars
May 01, 2008 |
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The opening of the new “Speed Racer” movie coming out nationally on May 9 has meant weeks of fast-paced fun for 8 juniors in the University of Cincinnati’s internationally recognized School of Design, part of UC’s top-ranked ...
On shaky ground: UH Prof finds geological faults threaten Houston
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 24, 2008 |
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After finding more than 300 surface faults in Harris County, a University of Houston geologist now has information that could be vitally useful to the region’s builders and city planners.
Geologist decries floodplain development
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Midwesterners have to be wondering: Will April be the cruelest month? Patterns in the Midwest this spring are eerily reminiscent of 1993 and 1994, back-to-back years of serious flooding, with the Great Flood ...
Plastic bags killing Queensland’s turtles
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Mar 13, 2008 |
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A group of University of Queensland researchers are urging Queenslanders to avoid littering the state's marine environment during the upcoming Easter holiday weekend.
California flood risks are 'disaster waiting to happen,' say engineers
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 17, 2008 |
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While flooding in California's Central Valley is "the next big disaster waiting to happen," water-related infrastructure issues confront almost every community across the country, according to engineers at ...
Why are we losing Louisiana?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 16, 2007 |
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The Mississippi Delta region was losing land long before Hurricane Katrina came ashore. But the correlation between land loss and the risk of flooding in the region is now more evident than ever.
When the levees fail
Sep 06, 2007 |
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"A hard rain's gonna fall..." So the Dylan song went... but when rain and storm surges fall on lands protected by weak levees, this means trouble…big trouble. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were devastating remind ...
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