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Water Quality Sensor
Scientists with the Department of Natural Resources monitor Maryland waters to determine the health of habitats for fish, crabs, oysters and other aquatic life. The results of our monitoring programs measure the current state of waterways, tell us whether they are improving or degrading, and help...Read more -
Dialing in a more affordable soil moisture sensor
Colleen Josephson, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at University of California, Santa Cruz, has built a prototype of a passive radio-frequency tag that could be buried underground and reflect radio waves from a reader aboveground, either held by a person, carried by ...Read more -
Sustainable Smart Agriculture with Biodegradable Soil Moisture Sensor
Increasingly limited land and water resources have spurred the development of precision agriculture, which uses remote sensing technology to monitor air and soil environmental data in real time to help optimize crop yields. Maximizing the sustainability of such technologies is critical to properl...Read more -
Air pollution: Parliament adopts revised law to improve air quality
Stricter 2030 limits for several air pollutants Air quality indices to be comparable across all member states Access to justice and right to compensation for citizens Air pollution leads to around 300,000 premature deaths per year in the EU The revised law aims to reduce air pollution in the EU f...Read more -
Climate change and extreme weather impacts hit Asia hard
Asia remained the world’s most disaster-hit region from weather, climate and water-related hazards in 2023. Floods and storms caused the highest number of reported casualties and economic losses, whilst the impact of heatwaves became more severe, according to a new report from the World Meteorolo...Read more -
Automatic weather station deployed in Kashmir to enhance farming practices
Asophisticated automatic weather station has been deployed in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district in a strategic effort to enhance horticultural and agricultural practices with real-time weather insights and soil analysis. The installation of the weather station is part of the Holistic Agricult...Read more -
Severe storms with tennis ball-size hail pummel Charlotte area Saturday, NWS says
Severe storms with predicted 70-mph winds and hail the size of tennis balls swept across the Charlotte area on Saturday, National Weather Service meteorologists reported. Union County and other areas were still at risk nearing 6 p.m., according to NWS severe weather alerts on X, the former socia...Read more -
Wind of Change: UMB Installs Small Weather Station
The extended forecast is calling for a small weather station at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), bringing the city’s weather data even closer to home. UMB’s Office of Sustainability worked with Operations and Maintenance to install a small weather station on the sixth-floor green roof...Read more -
Ultrasonic Anemometer
Weather stations are a popular project for experimenting with various environmental sensors, and a simple cup anemometer and weather vane are usually chosen to determine wind speed and direction. For Jianjia Ma’s QingStation, he decided to build a different type of wind sensor: an ultrasoni...Read more