Technology/Science
Asteroids Pose Serious Threat But Should Be Manageable
On Feb. 15, a 13,000-ton rock plunged through the skies above Chelyabinsk, Russia. It shone 30 times brighter than the sun, and hurtled at 42,000 miles per hour toward a city of more than a million ...
Colorado State Running Out of Money for Hurricane Forecasting
Colorado State University, which pioneered seasonal hurricane forecasting 30 years ago, may have issued its last prediction. The school's Tropical Meteorological Project needs $150,000 or it will end ...
Google’s Schmidt: Insurance About to ‘Explode’ With Uses for Big Data
Google Inc. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said new technologies that help companies analyze vast amounts of digital information have the power to bring change to the insurance, health-care and ...
Scientists Develop Breakthrough Computer Forecasting Models for Wildfires
Scientists have developed a new computer modeling technique that offers the promise, for the first time, of producing continually updated daylong predictions of wildfire growth throughout the ...
Low Frequency Hinders Study of Northeast Hurricanes
Seventy-five years ago, "the Great New England Hurricane of 1938" laid waste over large areas of the northeastern United States. Last year's Hurricane Sandy provided a more immediate reminder that ...
Setbacks Outweigh Gains in World’s Bid to Meet Carbon Goals: Study
The world is getting further off track in limiting global warming with setbacks in Japan and Australia outweighing positive signals from the United States and China, a study showed on Wednesday. A ...Warming Partly Caused by El Niño; CO2 Warming Effect Less than Believed: Researchers
A natural shift to stronger warm El Niño events in the Pacific Ocean might be responsible for a substantial portion of the global warming recorded during the past 50 years, according to new research ...
Zurich Insurance Investing $1 Billion in Green Energy Bonds
Zurich Insurance Group AG, Switzerland's biggest insurer, said it will spend as much as $1 billion on green bonds, making it the largest investor in such clean-power securities. The insurer has ...