The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

The Owens Lake Scientific Advisory Panel (OLSAP) provides advice on the reduction of airborne dust in the Owens Valley in California. The panel reviews scientific and technical issues related to the ...

Control of dust from mines is becoming increasingly important as public concern and environmental standards get ever stronger. The latest systems are increasingly sophisticated and effective in ...

Underground hard-rock mines use a wide variety of extraction methods and they have many common dust sources and dust control needs. Ore passes, blasting, drilling, conveying, transferring, crushing, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a blustery March morning, a wind gust lifted a dust wall hundreds of feet high from a bare piece of land south of Coolidge. It ...

On a blustery March morning, a wind gust lifted a dust wall hundreds of feet high from a bare piece of land south of Coolidge. It engulfed 23 cars and was blamed for a road accident. Ten days later, ...