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Youtube Videos
Aug 29, 2006
It is a while ago after last explorer update. Latest multimedia extension was audio from the Freesound Project. I'm interested for a long time in digital video and so videos on the map was in the pipeline from the beginning of this project.
Now here is th ...>>
Storm Ernesto
Aug 28, 2006
Now downgraded to a tropical storm Ernesto is targeting Cuba and the southern tip of Florida. It may strengthen up to a hurricane again before hitting Florida.
Govorneur Jeb Bush issued a state of emergency Sunday for all of Florida. Immediate concern cent ...>>
Save a Tree
Aug 28, 2006
Currently the Tunza International Children's Conference is hold in Malaysia at the
Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC). The Conference is for children between the ages of 10 to 14. Participants are nominated by their schools and community organi ...>>
Phenology
Aug 26, 2006
A new research, led by Dr Annette Menzel from the Technical University Munich in Germany and Dr Tim Sparks of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire focused on phenology - the timing of natural events.
The analysis of 125,000 rec ...>>
Deforestation
Aug 25, 2006
What looks like fog over Amazon rainforest at first sight are hundreds of fires turning trees and oxygen into carbondioxyd. Switch between Landsat and Daily Terra layers to see what happened in some years, only.
Satellite picture taken by Daily Terra, 2006 ...>>
Forest Fire
Aug 24, 2006
A forest fire in the area of Cassandra in Halkidiki, northern Greece, caused the deaths of two people and devasted some 5,000 hectares of pine trees. Captured by Daily Aqua, 2006-08-22. Via: ekathimerini.com ...>>
ExxonMobil
Aug 23, 2006
YouTube video
2.56min, youtube, Veredictum, uploaded August 5, 2006
A video stultifying Al Gore and Global Warming was released on YouTube.com not by an existing person, instead the DCI Group, Washington, D.C., lobbying for Exxon Mobil was found behind ...>>
Wildfires
Aug 22, 2006
Lightning caused wildfires in Oregon, USA, seen by Daily Aqua, 2006-08-20. Daily information and satellite photos prepares the MODIS Active Fire Mappping Program every day (US only). ...>>
Free geoData
Aug 21, 2006
The EU is in process of releasing INSPIRE as the Proposed European Commission Directive on European Spatial Data Infrastucture. There is a last chance to stop them from making Geographic Data collected by National Mapping Agencies all over Europe a property o ...>>
New Layout
Aug 20, 2006
Google AdSense Quality Team has forced me to change the layout of the map explorer. Now there is a toolbar on the right side with permallink and clickmap. Registered Users will find the permalink in the info section of the flyout menu .
I'd like to say tha ...>>
Climate Succes Stories
Aug 17, 2006
The Climate Group, an independent, international operating nonprofit organization hightlights companies, countries, cities and regions in a report (summary) with a success story about reducing carbon emissions and gaining more profit or reducing costs.
Hop ...>>
Climate Refugees
Aug 17, 2006
Demographic data collected by Claritas states that about 250,000 people from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast still have not come back to their domicile. Lester R. Brown from Earth Policy Institute concludes:
The first massive movement of climate refugees has ...>>
Typhoon Saomai
Aug 17, 2006
YouTube video
Typhoon Saomai made landfall in Zhejiang. (Part 1)
8min, youtube, asukamomoko2006, uploaded August 11, 2006
Read: Typhoon Saomai: strongest to hit Chinese mainland in over 50 years ...>>
Melting Glaciers
Aug 16, 2006
Greenland is the largest non-continental island in the world. The Greenland Ice Sheet holds about 2.85 million cubic kilometres of ice - 10% of the world's ice mass. About 81% of the surface is covered by ice and helps to preserve the global energy balance. Th ...>>
Reduced Crops
Aug 16, 2006
Above a certain point the CO2 concentration and temperature reduce the yields of seed grain crops. Hartwell Allen , ARS plant physiologist Joseph C. Vu, colleagues associated with the University of Florida-Gainesville and the International Rice Research Instit ...>>
Tutorial
Aug 14, 2006
This is just an announcement and the supporting post for the tutorial describing how to implement labeled permalinks for Google Maps. Read everything about here and use the comment function below for questions and proposals:
Tutorial for labeled permalinks, ...>>
Typhoon Saomai
Aug 12, 2006
Typhoon Saomai struck the coast of Zhejiang province in the south-east of China on 10 August. Prior to making landfall, maximum sustained winds within the tropical cyclone were recorded by the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) at 216 km/h, making it th ...>>
War
Aug 11, 2006
-- According to the Lebanese Higher Relief Council, 1,056 Lebanese have been killed and 3,600 wounded.
-- The Government of Israel reports that 41 Israeli civilians have been killed.
-- The Lebanese Higher Relief Council also reports the following prelim ...>>
