Word: risks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year-old monument where Chinese emperors once prayed for good harvests - on Aug. 28, you would have noticed a steady drip. The environmental group Greenpeace placed ice sculptures of 100 children - made of the glacial meltwater that feeds China's great rivers - inside the temple to symbolize the risk that climate change and disappearing ice poses to the 1 billion-plus people in Asia who are threatened by water shortages...
...Whatever you think policymakers should take from these studies, it's reassuring to know that of all the things you're at greater risk of losing during the current recession, your life isn't one of them...
...California in 2010. Coda expects to sell about 2,700 cars in the first year, with an annual sales target of around 20,000. For Coda's Czinger, the China connection allows him to keep his costs low and, more importantly, to manufacture on demand, which cuts his risk considerably. There's no other way a startup could compete - even one that just pulled in $24 million in venture capital funding and gave former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson an advisory seat on its board. "It allows us to manufacture flexibly without putting huge amounts of capital into metal-bashing...
...robotics, power sources and sensors, and biologically-inspired computer programming. The relatively new grant was developed last year by the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering and is awarded to three institutions annually. It funds research rooted in basic science that is of “high risk but potentially high reward” said Gu-Yeon Wei, an associate professor of electrical engineering at SEAS and co-principal investigator of the project. “This is such cool research, as the practical, technological aspects of the project dovetail with deep fundamental issues in computer science, robotics...
...course, the work of greening New Orleans has been as complex and intermittent as other parts of the reconstruction process, with delays and bureaucratic obstacles. And there's a legitimate question here: Given the increased risk of hurricanes and rising oceans in a warmer future, should a city that exists under sea level be built back at all? Green or not, will New Orleans ever be safe from global warming...