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Walmart Tests Delivery Drones

Sep 10, 2020 | Business, Drones

The retail giant on Wednesday said it would start testing cloud-controlled drone deliveries of select grocery and household items. The program kicks off today in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and items will be flown from local Walmart stores to shoppers’ doorsteps....

FAA OKs Amazon Prime Air Drone Delivery

Sep 3, 2020 | Business, Drones

Amazon customers in the U.S. could soon have their deliveries completed by an unmanned drone. The Federal Aviation Administration has approved Amazon’s Prime Air service, which will use drones to deliver packages. The FAA issued a “Part 135 air carrier...

Drones Assess Global Climate Change

Aug 27, 2020 | Climate, Drones, Featured

New instruments in the research tool kit bolster scientific understanding of the ecology of a greening Arctic. As Earth warms, satellite images send strong indications of Arctic greening. But a greening signal belies greater complexity. Climate change brings a ground...

Scientists Use Drones to Study Great White Sharks

Jul 30, 2020 | Drones

Scientists are using drones and other technology to study great white sharks along the coast of Southern California to better understand interactions between these marine predators and people and assess the risks to human beachgoers. The two-year study by the Shark...