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Flood-prone Houston faces hard choices for handling too much water
Flood-prone Houston faces hard choices for handling too much water Houston faces a hard choice between three competing options to contain flooding: a $30 billion system of eight tunnels proposed by the Harris County Flood Control District, a two-tunnel proposal from Elon Musk’s Boring Company, and a hybrid option combining elements of both. The engineering […]
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NASA’s Ready-to-Use Dataset Details Land Motion Across North America
NASA’s Ready-to-Use Dataset Details Land Motion Across North America NASA has launched an online portal that maps satellite radar measurements across North America, enabling users to track land movement since 2016 caused by earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes, and other phenomena. The OPERA project, led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, provides a powerful web-based tool that shows […]
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