Sensors detect California cliff collapses hours to days before failure, report says

Following a four-year study, scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography released a new report to determine whether an early warning system could detect a landslide before it happens. The “California Coastal Landslide Early Warning Research” report found that a network of in-ground sensors can provide a reliable warning of impending…Continue Reading

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The Smithsonian Institution has responded to the White House’s  162-page document released over the July Fourth holiday weekend criticizing the group and the National Museum of American History for “extreme political activism.”  In a letter obtained by The Washington Post, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch wrote to staff members thatContinue Reading