Ask the Builder: Before you sign a contract, pause and get advice
Tim Carter, Tribune Content Agency
This is a milestone column for me. It’s my 1,500th weekly column.For weeks leading up to this day, I’ve wanted to…
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Harvesting the Rain Part 1: Passive rainwater harvesting
Spring is a great time for planting, but those plants you just bought will need water to get established and to survive. This means spring is also the perfect time to think…
Making garden microclimates work for you in your Tucson yard
The first thing most new gardeners learn is their climate zone. For example, Tucson is in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Climate Zone 9b and Sunset Magazine’s Zone 12.…
Black Lung Resurgence Drives Push to Protect Coal Miners Against Silica Dust
McROBERTS, Ky. — Like most coal miners’ loved ones, Liz Williams has endured many days and nights of worry.Throughout the four decades her husband, Michael, worked in…
Fiat-Crypto Transactions’ Completion Depends on Geology, Type, Size: Report
Financial transactions pertaining between fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies depend heavily on the location from where the transactions are being initiated. The finding was shared in a…
How Fiber Optic Cables Could Warn You of an Earthquake
And last month in the journal Scientific Reports, a separate team of researchers described how they used undersea cables off the coasts of Chile, Greece, and France to detect earthquakes.…
Aftershocks May Rock Turkey and Syria for Months, Even Years
Early Monday morning, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake ripped through Turkey and Syria, followed nine hours later by a 7.5 aftershock. The death toll stands at more than 3,800, and rescuers have…
Did the Seeds of Life Ride to Earth Inside an Asteroid?
Nearly a hundred different types of amino acids have been observed in meteorites, but only a dozen of the 20 that are essential for life have been found. Biological amino acids also have a…
Galantas Gold to Present on Geology and District-Scale Potential of the Gairloch…
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The American West’s Salt Lakes Are Turning to Dust
This story originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Last summer, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration observed dust…