Brownout–or obstruction of pilot vision by dust–threatens passenger and pilot safety. Dust control on helipads is crucial for safe operations.
How Access to Energy Improves Quality of Life
As emerging economies are turning into global players through their growing access to energy, a new middle class is rising. How are emerging markets redrawing their economic maps, and what can the U.S. do to help this trend?
What Are the Options to Save Laurel Run Park?
A 1984 film depicts swathes of farmland being eroded away by the Holston River. Now, for the residents of Hawkins County, that fiction has become an unsettling reality.
Alaska’s Love for Gravel Runways Will Never Die
Due to its climate and the popularity of air travel, Alaska has more than its fair share of gravel runways, hosting 16 times the U.S. national average number of planes per capita.
There’s Life After the Mine: Beautiful Park Reclaimed from Coal Mine
Detractors assert that decommissioned coal mines can become an eyesore and a health hazard, but the Red Hills Mine’s reclamation proves them wrong.