1 Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education, Joint International Research Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Change, Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, 2 International Pacific Research Center and Department of Atmospheric Sciences, School of ...

strict new safety rules announced after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, but in most cases won't be subjected to new environmental reviews. The announcement means that some drilling could resume within weeks, although the exact timing remains unclear. But the policy doesn't affect the more than a dozen permit requests that were pending when the moratorium took effect or have been filed since. Th...

Katrina caused enormous physical destruction, environmental degradation, and human misery (Travis 2005). Full remedia-tion will take years, and many decisions that are fundamental to the restoration and rejuvenation of the Gulf Coast are yet to be made. The challenges for New Orleans, Louisiana, are particularly complex. Criticism of the disaster response and preparedness effort was swift and i...

Environmental cataclysms will be with mankind even after we have learned to prevent man-made disasters. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, disaster planning, preparedness, and responses were mostly theoretical and based on our preconceived notions of what a disaster should be [1] and were mostly untested, except on relatively small scales. Katrina has changed that in many ways. We knew Katrina was com...

The fieldserver is an Internet based observation robot that can provide an outdoor solution for monitoring environmental parameters in real-time. The data from its sensors can be collected to a central server infrastructure and published on the Internet. The information from the sensor network will contribute to monitoring and modeling on various environmental issues in Asia, including agricult...

Experimental data obtained for simultaneous action of ionizing radiation with different physical or chemical agents on various cellular systems evidence that the lesser the intensity of physical factor or the concentration of chemical agents, the smaller the temperature that has to be used to provide the highest or a definite level of synergistic interaction. On this basis, it is inferred that ...

This study presents a methodology for risk analysis and assessment of drought disaster to agricultural production in the maize-growing area of Songliao Plain of China based on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) from the viewpoints of climatology, geography, disaster science, and environmental science and so on. Crop yield–climate analysis and regression analysis were employed to analyze and...