In a rare ruling, the FAA has granted Olin College a research exemption to fly unmanned aircraft systems, (UAS) or drones as they are commonly called, to “conduct research on its own behalf and on behalf of other research groups.” …
Wildfires across the western United States have been getting bigger and more frequent over the last 30 years – a trend that could continue as climate change causes temperatures to rise and drought to become more severe in the coming …
Inside university laboratories and government research facilities across the country, scientists are playing with dozens of variables – mixing and matching and rearranging – to gain a better understanding of what makes wildfire go. They’re busy building computer models as …