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ISS Transit
Sep 30, 2006
Photographer Thierry Legault shot this spectacular image.
It shows the transit of the International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Atlantis 50 minutes after undocking from the ISS in front of the Sun on 17 September 2006 13:38:50 UTC. Picture was s ...>>
Site Update
Sep 30, 2006
Google has now indexed more than 10,000 pages of ExploreOurPla.net and offers on-site search results.
Not only to reduce server load I've disabled the internal wordpress search and let now Google do the work. Example: Search results for Tuvalu
Actually ...>>
Typhoon Xangsane
Sep 29, 2006
Within 36 hours Milenyo - international codename Xangsane - grew from a tropical depression to a typhoon with gusts up to 240 km/h. He crossed the northern Philippines on Thursday, left six provinces - 43 million people - without electricity and killed ...>>
The Planet Burns
Sep 28, 2006
Jeffrey D. Sachs is not comfortable with the editorial board of Wall Street's Journal as he writes in the Scientific American October 2006 issue.
Another summer of record-breaking temperatures brought power failures, heat waves, droughts and tropical storms ...>>
Royal Society
Sep 28, 2006
Excluding pollution from market calculations is quite profitable. The Fortune Global 500 lists five oil companies and four automobile manufacturers under the top ten. With profits of $36,130,000,000 ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) is the most profitable and by revenue ...>>
Weather Forum
Sep 27, 2006
The Third International Weather Forum is being organized by the French Meteorological Society in Ajaccio, Corsica, from 9 to 15 October 2006.
The accent will be on climate change and environmental issues. Two debates will be organized for the public: "The ...>>
Do You Like It Hotter
Sep 26, 2006
When global temperature rises 1°C next decades the 400,000 years old record from Holocene is outranged. During the Middle Pliocene about three million years ago Earth was only 23°C warmer than today and sea level was 2535m higher. Are we going ...>>
Bushfire
Sep 25, 2006
Just looking at what we've seen already, this is a major concern that fire seasons seem to be starting earlier and lasting longer. We've got to get a greater understanding on this, on the frequency of fires, the earlier start to the season and if there's any ...>>
US CCTP
Sep 25, 2006
US President Bush, who leaves office in January 2009, is facing elections for the Senate and House in November 2006. Latest opinon polls state that about 70% of US citizens feel that global warming is happening.
So, is it time for an u-turn?
The U.S. ...>>
Halting Climate Change
Sep 25, 2006
As the General Assembly continued the general debate of its sixty-first session today, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, Margaret Beckett, warned that failure to act on climate change ran the risk of undermini ...>>
Oxygen Revolution
Sep 22, 2006
Astronomers are looking for habitable planets in our neighbourhood. The understanding of our Planet's history helps to determine the state of a remote planet by analysis of its light spectrum.
Is it just born or full of life? Are there intelligent lifefor ...>>
Al Gore
Sep 21, 2006
Speech was hold September 18, 2006 at NYU School of Law, Tishman Auditorium, Vanderbilt Hall and is also available as pdf or webcast (Al Gore starts at 25:00)
... After all, many Americans are tired of borrowing huge amounts of money from China to buy hug ...>>
Population
Sep 21, 2006
A new report by the Center for Environment and Population (CEP) demonstrates the relationship between national population trends, resource consumption, and environmental degradation.
Quoted from Introduction:
Global environmental changes are occurring in ...>>
Biosphere
Sep 20, 2006
With a fast Internet connection these ~90MB animations from the SeaWIFS Instrument provide a great view at the seasons of our Planet.
Starting from Sep 1997 you'll see eight years with phytoplankton blooms and El Niños oscillating with temperature, nutri ...>>
Hurricane Helene
Sep 20, 2006
According to NASA's CloudSat satellite Helene, a CAT3 hurricane, is more than 1000 km across. Latest forecast do not expect a landfall, direction northeast is assumed within 3 days. Photo taken by Daily Terra, 2006-09-19 14:15 UTC. ...>>
Wildfires
Sep 18, 2006
Large wildfire located between Stauffer and Fillmore. Smoke captured by Daily Terra, 2006-09-13.
University of Berkeley has recently opened the Center of Fire Research and Outreach and helps homeowners, researchers and decision-makers with a toolkit to de ...>>
KyotoPlus
Sep 18, 2006
Heinrich Böll Stiftung organizes KyotoPlus happening in Germany, Berlin, EnergieForum Sep 28/29 2006.
The conference targets the period after 2012. New emission targets are needed to keep the temperature rise below 2 Degrees Celsius. The conference is ope ...>>
High Resolution
Sep 16, 2006
Google Satellite database is updated with new highres pictures. Picture shows Woudsend in the Netherlands, which are now completly captured. This is the place I lossed my glasses once into the canal while sailing. (well, no chance to find them now :) ...>>
