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Vortex street and glory off near Guadalupe Island, Mexico captured by MODIS Daily Aqua. More info about this resonance effect is available at Wikipedia and Visible Earth ...>>

I would say the situation is very scary now, ... , even recently, one of the islands by (our) main island capital just disappeared. It will be very sad if Tuvalu actually disappears. So we only hope that everybody makes an effort to reverse global warming ...>>

While analyzing the log files from ExploreOurPla.net I see a surprising amount of 20% are users from Poland. You're welcome! Too bad, I can not read any word of Polish. However I'd like to ask you for a favour: could you send me links of RSS ...>>

In the chaos that followed the quake, rumors of an impending tsunami sent thousands of people fleeing to higher ground in cars and motorbikes. The city is around 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the sea, and more than two hours after the quake no tsunami had occu ...>>

This is a nice shot from Daily Aqua taken 2006-05-25. It shows the Caribbean sea, Florida and Cuba. Sun is reflected by the water surface and the States are covered with little clouds. ...>>

For this post I first added a new category called disinformation. Claiming to advance liberty from economy to ecology the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. starts a campaign in 14 US cities with 2 video ads about global warming. We ...>>

During the development of the geoRSS widget for ExploreOurPla.net I used this list for testing: newsrss.bbc.co.uk//rss/newsonline_world_ ... rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/climatechange ... rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/earthquakes ... rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/hurricane ...>>

After a while of silent ExploreOurPla.net adapts to new Google Maps 2. Google made major changes to their code and map database. The update will give you overlays and more detailed maps. Google Satellite Maps provides more high resolution pictures, mainly o ...>>