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Satellite picture taken by Daily Terra, 2006-07-29, showing one of an incrementing amount of dust storms in this region caused by extreme summer heat. via: Modis ...>>

Today latimes.com starts a five parts interactive Flash presentation about the fundamental changes of the oceans. During his 5 years exploration Kenneth R. Weiss documented the impact of human civilisation like overfishing and nutrients influx. First part ...>>

Nice reading about the not yet finished sommer of records 2006 and latest heatwave 2003. Kim Wilsher and Jack Shenker collected interesting facts about overheating and casualties, how people in Greece and Britain behave different and what you may expect ...>>

In the upper right corner ExploreOurPla.net now has a location detector. It displays the location of the center of the map and provides a labeled permalink ready for your bookmarks and mails. After every move ExplorerOurPla.net connects to geonames.org, s ...>>

About 800 people were evacuated from their homes, over 800 households experienced water shortage and over 81,000 experienced power shortages, according to the National Disaster Prevention and Protection Commission under the Executive Yuan. Flooding was reporte ...>>

Several parts of Europe and of the United States are experiencing a heat wave. Governments are taking action to prepare communities for the potential impacts of the record high temperatures. Britain experienced on Wednesday 19 July its hottest day for the mont ...>>

With the help of a polish user K. Ciszewski we finally have some results in geotagging polish rss feeds. If you like to improve the geotagging service and see more polish news on the map, the build in feedback mechanism is your choice. Simply mark a word/p ...>>

While still under attack by Israeli forces tens of thousands of people flee Lebanon for their lives. Picture, taken by Daily Aqua, 2006-07-17, shows burning oil refineries near the coast. via: Deutsche Welle, Detroit Free Press, Antiwar.com ...>>

Wildfire in California, 2006-07-13, observed by Daily Terra. A recently published report asserts a positive feedback effect between wildfires and global warming. via: cbsnews.com, missoulian.com, MODIS Aqua Some impressive photos of the red sky are avail ...>>

ExploreOurPla.net is beta testing the new Google Mail for Domains and I can offer five mail acounts for free to anybody interested. Just send a mail to admin {at} ExploreOurPla.net, first in - first out. You will get the mail address you like, may use Googl ...>>

sea level global warming climate change greenhouse Kyoto Though far away from a quantitative tool Google Trends allows some qualitative analysis. Live picture above shows how often Google was used for searches with environmental relevant en ...>>

NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, US) report about changes in the chemistry of the oceans when they absorb more and more CO2. Corals and other marine organisms that produce calcium carbonate skeletal structures will suffer when the oceans b ...>>