Scientists closely examine FEMA trailers
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While the Federal Emergency Management Agency rushes to move thousands of Gulf Coast storm victims out of government-issued trailers, scientists are tearing the units apart to learn why many have exposed occupants to dangerous levels of formaldehyde fumes.
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A team of US scientists show off a novel device that harvests energy from human movements.
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The National Science Board urges the feds to bolster efforts to understand hurricanes. Despite huge storm-related losses, NOAA staffing is down 30 percent and the focus is on short-term forecasting, according to the report.
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Scientists are puzzled, but the phenomenon seems to fit the latest global-warming models.
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By Joshua Norman, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Dec. 13--GULFPORT -- Construction on the controversial FEMA trailer park site on John Hill Boulevard has been suspended, a FEMA spokesman said.
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A new technique for tracking tempests using tree rings could help settle the debate about whether global warming is affecting hurricane frequency.
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SPACE.com / Scientists could soon predict when and where monster waves generated by hurricanes will strike, thanks to new computer models and data from a seven-year study that involved researchers flying into the center of the violent tempests.
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When a hurricane makes landfall in the continental United States, Dave Prevatt and his colleagues in the Florida Coastal Monitoring Program are out evaluating which construction methods best protect homes from the tremendous wind forces the storms deliver.
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Many of the government-supplied  trailers housing thousands of people displaced by Hurricane  Katrina contain potentially dangerous levels of the chemical  formaldehyde, U.S. federal health officials said on Thursday.
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More than 200 times each day, authorities detect radiation in containers arriving off cargo ships at Port Newark. It's in ceramic tiles, granite, pottery, kitty litter &#151; all natural products made from Earth's elements.
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Believers have raised funds and packed boxes while struggling to understand why disasters happen.
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High confidence in computer models of the storms enables more effective evacuation planning.
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NASA has installed a climate-observation system at a former U.S. military base bordering the Panama Canal that will allow scientists to monitor forest fires, earthquakes and tropical storms.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 17--HARRISON COUNTY -- Investigators checking a complaint of a missing purse believe a suspect posed as a FEMA inspector to steal it from an elderly woman's FEMA trailer.
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Scientists try to build a hurricane to topple a brick house in order to recommend changes in building codes.
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Nearly 10,000 emergency housing trailers that were intended to be sent to the Gulf Coast to help Hurricane Katrina victims have been freed up for other uses.
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Scientists pored over data and wracked their brains Tuesday to determine the cause of a frenzied pace of tiny earthquakes at Mount St.