On the Ground and in the Water, Tracing a Giant Waveâs Path
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Dr. Harindra Joseph S. Fernando studies the human activities that make a natural disaster even more deadly.
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Since ancient times poets have revered the power of the seas. Now energy companies and coastal cities like New York and San Francisco are aiming to tap ocean waves and tidal currents as abundant sources of electricity.
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By Paul RogersSTAFF  They are creeping along the bottom of Monterey Bay, hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface. In the cold blackness, they stretch as much as 15 feet high and 200 feet long.   Nobody knows exactly how they got there or what drives them.
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As the annual hurricane season begins, scientists are pressing on a number of fronts to learn how to tell with greater precision when and where they will strike.
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Itâs hurricane season on the Carolina coast, and right now weâre between storms. But every time the sky starts to clear, the morning news announces something big and scary taking shape just over the horizon.
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By Jim Carney, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Jan. 31--Nick Garbinsky wants to study rocks and earthquakes when he grows up but maybe he should consider water currents instead.
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The human impact of the tsunami disaster in sound and pictures.
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SINGAPORE A giant water spout was spotted off the coast of Singapore yesterday. Television stations were inundated with calls from people thinking they were seeing a tornado.
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Using wind to make clean water could be a winning combination.
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The world of science has been busy all through 2004. The probing eye looked in all directions. It looked at the skies, at the ground beneath our feet, at the wings of a butterfly and at the molecules of water.
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The waves have been  nicknamed Cyclops, Jaws and Dungeons and are the new  life-and-death playground for a unique breed of surfers who  ride gargantuan ocean waves as big as a seven storey building.
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Satellite image acquisitions will be synchronised with the tides as part of an ambitious new project to map coastlines from space. Accurate up-to-date marine charts are essential for safe shipping navigation.
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By Beth Daley, The Boston Globe  Jun. 4--When an April northeaster punched a gap through the long, sandy  spit that forms Nauset Beach in Chatham, local geologists and officials were  not overly alarmed.
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The emerging science of infrasound may help track -- or even predict -- earthquakes and other disasters. By John Geirland from Wired magazine.
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Gideon Mendel's pictures of flooding in east and west reveal striking contrasts and unexpected resonances
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Waves over 20m high are getting bigger, more frequent and are eroding Britain's Atlantic coast, experts say.
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There are moments in history when the potential for seismic shifts is so great that it&#39;s palpable. Yasser Arafat&#39;s death has created one of them.