منابع مشابه
Composting Helps Denver Manage Sludge
isposal of wastewater sludge has D long been a problem in wastewater treatment. In the past decade, however, conventional sludge disposal methods, such as incineration, Ocean dumping and landfilling, have come under increasingly tighi regulatory control. These regulatory cmtrols, coupled with increased energy costs and environmental concerns, have sparked renewed interest in wastewater sludge c...
متن کاملFloods and tsunamis.
Floods and tsunamis cause few severe injuries, but those injuries can overwhelm local areas, depending on the magnitude of the disaster. Most injuries are extremity fractures, lacerations, and sprains. Because of the mechanism of soft tissue and bone injuries, infection is a significant risk. Aspiration pneumonias are also associated with tsunamis. Appropriate precautionary interventions preven...
متن کاملTeaming up against tsunamis.
Q: What personal qualities have made your career possible? A: An advantage I have is having an open mind and being humble enough to realize that you can’t be an expert in everything. As problems become bigger, especially in the case of natural disasters, we have to work more with other scientists, other engineering groups, but also with the social sciences— psychologists, disaster managers, his...
متن کاملSeismically generated tsunamis.
People around the world know more about tsunamis than they did 10 years ago, primarily because of two events: a tsunami on 26 December 2004 that killed more than 200,000 people around the shores of the Indian Ocean; and an earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Japan on 11 March 2011 that killed nearly 15,000 more and triggered a nuclear accident, with consequences that are still unfolding. Th...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/473031d