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- 1From:SuperScience (Vol. 31, Issue 1)In "Water Power!" (pp. 14-15), you learned about a scientist who used a model to study how waterfalls can form. The model showed how bedrock erodes, or wears away. In this activity, you will build a model to study how...
- 2From:Geographical (Vol. 89, Issue 6)When Jim Best and Dan Shugar visited the Slims River in Canada's Yukon last summer, they made a discovery that caused the world to sit up and pay attention to this remote corner of North America. Instead of a flowing...
- 3From:California Builder and Engineer (Vol. 116, Issue 22)By Mike Crummy Edited by Loren Faulkner Heavy construction equipment and aircraft mobilize to place hydro-mulch in wildfire-ravaged areas of California. It is California's wildfires season again, with the...
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- 5From:Geographical (Vol. 82, Issue 1)First measurement of tsunami erosion: A team of scientists whose detailed coastline survey fortuitously bracketed two tsunami events in the Kuril Islands off the east coast of Russia have collected the first detailed...
- 6From:Science News (Vol. 176, Issue 2)If engineers don't divert sediment-rich waters from the Mississippi River to help replenish a sinking delta, about 10 percent of Louisiana will slip beneath the waves by the end of this century. And even if the...
- 7From:SuperScience (Vol. 21, Issue 5)THINK: What kind of forces can damage your home? What kind of changes can result from these forces? PREDICT: The ancient Mayan people made temples out of stone to honor their religion. Some of those temples stand...
- 8From:Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World (Vol. 7, Issue 8)Mary King says coincidence led her to follow her father's footsteps when choosing her career in agricultural engineering -- but she wouldn't have it any other way. "I was interested in being an engineer," says King,...
- 9From:Printed Circuit Design & Fab (Vol. 25, Issue 10)Lead-free solder alloys, particularly those with higher silver and lower copper contents, have been shown to react with the copper on circuit boards, dissolving the copper much more quickly than tin-lead solders. Rapid...
- 10From:California Builder and Engineer (Vol. 114, Issue 16)By Tara Deering Contractors Learn to Successfully Install Erosion Control Products with Compact Equipment As part of the International Erosion Control Association (IECA) Environmental Connection 2006 conference in...
- 11From:UN Chronicle (Vol. 31, Issue 2)The UN International Negotiating Committee is preparing a 42-article convention that it hopes to adopt in Jun 1994. The goal is to develop a global approach to combat drought and to find ways to use arid lands,...
- 12From:Science News (Vol. 130)Erosion from water in parched lands It's ironic that in the African Sahel's 20-year battle with drought and famine, one enemy could turn out to be water. But at two study sites along the inland Niger Delta in the west...
- 13From:Science News (Vol. 136, Issue 4)Spotting erosion from space Billions of tons of dirt wash into the oceans each year, making soil one of the world's most endangered resources. Not only does topsoil erosion steal precious nutrients away from fields,...
- 14From:Journal of Himalayan Earth Sciences (Vol. 44)Byline: Jason M. Dortch, Lewis A. Owen, Lindsay M. Schoenbohm and Marc W. Caffee Introduction Researchers have hypothesized that erosional unloading can influence rate and style of tectonic deformation, but this...
- 15From:Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World (Vol. 9, Issue 12)Nonpoint source pollution is a major concern related to natural resource management throughout the United States. Undisturbed forest lands typically have minimal erosion, less than 0.13 ton/acre (0.30 ton/hectare), due...
- 16From:Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World (Vol. 6, Issue 11)Prize-winning authors in the K.K. Barnes competition had the opportunity to present their papers orally at the annual international meeting, earning cash awards of $500, $300 and $200. This year's winning papers can be...
- 17From:World Watch (Vol. 8, Issue 2)Mankind has not been kind to the soil in its pursuit of food. Over the centuries, farming practices have eroded the soil and led to soil degradation, leaving farmers with the problem of producing food from sterile land....
- 18From:American City & County (Vol. 114, Issue 8)A stream rehabilitation project in Maryland Heights, Mo., is the first part of an erosion control program that promises to relieve flash flooding and property damage and ensure better water quality in the community. The...
- 19From:Geographical (Vol. 81, Issue 5)A 64-kilometre stretch of Alaskan shoreline is being eroded by the Beaufort Sea at twice the rate previously recorded, according to research conducted by the US Geological Survey and published in Geophysical Research...
- 20From:Science News (Vol. 179, Issue 11)Arctic coastlines--a third of the globe's shores--are retreating an average of half a meter annually, a 10-nation regional assessment concludes. A warming climate is the apparent cause, according to a related Alaskan...