Glass fiber-reinforced plastic (GFRP), a strong and durable composite material, is widely used in everything from aircraft parts to windmill blades.
Rice Lab Finds Better Way to Handle Hard-to-Recycle Material
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In Rush for Lithium, Miners Turn to the Oil Fields of Arkansas
The town of Smackover, Arkansas, was founded a hundred years ago when a sawmill operator got lucky: his wildcat oil well yielded a gusher.
Great Lakes Ice Coverage Reaches Historic Low
NOAA researchers at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) report that they’ve seen a steady decrease in ice coverage across the Great Lakes, which has reached a historic low.
How Climate Change Risks Increase at a National Scale as the Level of Global Warming Increases
A major research programme led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) has quantified how climate change risks to human and natural systems increase at a national scale as the level of global warming increases.
Study Suggests People In Urban Areas With More Green Space Have Better Mental Health
A new study from the Texas A&M University School of Public Health suggests that city dwellers who have more exposure to urban green spaces require fewer mental health services.
80 Mph Speed Record for Glacier Fracture Helps Reveal the Physics of Ice Sheet Collapse
There’s enough water frozen in Greenland and Antarctic glaciers that if they melted, global seas would rise by many feet.
