News articles tagged with 'reservoir'
Earthshaking possibilities may limit underground storage of carbon dioxide
— 14 Dec 2010 19:48 | Geology and palaeontologyStoring massive amounts of carbon dioxide underground in an effort to combat global warming may not be easy to do because of the potential for triggering small- to moderate-sized earthquakes,…
Reservoirs: A neglected source of methane emissions
— 11 Oct 2010 11:00 | EnvironmentSubstantial amounts of the greenhouse gas methane are released not only from large tropical reservoirs but also from run-of-the-river reservoirs in Switzerland, especially in the summer,…
Hungary toxic mud disaster could have been avoided
— 9 Oct 2010 09:23 | EnvironmentAn aerial photograph taken in June showing a damaged and clearly leaking sludge pond wall shows that the toxic mud disaster in Hungary and subsequent pollution of rivers including the…
Scientists observe single ions moving through tiny carbon-nanotube channel
— 10 Sep 2010 11:58 | TechnologyFor the first time, a team of MIT chemical engineers has observed single ions marching through a tiny carbon-nanotube channel. Such channels could be used as extremely sensitive detectors…
Managing Pacific Northwest dams for a changing climate
— 22 Jan 2010 16:24 | EnvironmentCivil engineers at the University of Washington and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Seattle office have taken a first look at how dams in the Columbia River basin, the nation's largest…
Future of West water supply threatened by climate change
— 20 Jul 2009 22:07 | EnvironmentAs the West warms, a drier Colorado River system could see as much as a one-in-two chance of fully depleting all of its reservoir storage by mid-century assuming current management…
Solving the chalk mystery
— 25 Apr 2009 12:31 | ChemistryA piece of chalk in a laboratory at the University of Stavanger in Norway may be the key to unlock a great mystery. If the mystery is solved, it will generate billions in additional…
Improving oil extraction with new mapping technology
— 1 Feb 2009 19:00 | TechnologyPicture this: an accurate map of a large underground oil reservoir that can guide engineers' efforts to coax the oil from the vast rocky subsurface into wells where it can be pumped…
China should think outside the flooding box with Three Gorges Dam
— 24 Oct 2008 13:04 | EnvironmentChina's farmers and merchants should take advantage of new agricultural and business opportunities that could help mitigate some effects of the annual flooding behind the Three Gorges…
HIV expert says one step down, two more to go in quest to cure AIDS
— 7 Aug 2008 12:54 | HealthA Johns Hopkins expert in HIV and how the AIDS virus hides in the body says antiretroviral drugs have stopped HIV from replicating, the first of three key steps needed to rid people…