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Antrim Wind, a nine-turbine wind farm in Antrim, has been providing renewable energy to the region for six years and has ...

UCSC engineer Javier Gonzalez-Rocha is using drones and sensors to bring advanced air quality monitoring to underserved ...

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On any given winter morning, several members of the Northwest Avalanche Center’s 11-member team commute to one of the region’s hardiest jobs: avalanche observation. From Mount Hood ...

Bolted into a concrete slab in a grassy field in Colesville, a 30-foot-tall metal tower with devices to measure weather ...

The Namib desert of south-western Africa can be extremely hot—the surface temperature can be over 50°C. But a surprising ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For the second time this week, Colorado’s Front Range is bracing for wind gusts so strong Friday that Xcel Energy has disrupted households, businesses and ...