2013 Ring of Fire Eclipse” As Seen from Cape York, New Zealand
For those in the right location (Australia, Papau New Guinea and New Zealand) there was an…
Awesome
Homes severely damaged last October still sit crippled along the beach. Six months after Superstorm Sandy devastated the Jersey shore and New York City and pounded coastal areas of New England, the region is dealing with a slow and frustrating recovery. Tens of thousands of people remain homeless.
By the mid-1990s, it was possible to investigate the causal mechanisms behind changes in Earth’s climate using relatively sophisticated mathematical models of Earth’s climate. These models solved the same complex equations of atmospheric physics that numerical weather prediction models did….
NYC bike share, largest in the country, to begin
New York City, with its constant hum of subways, buses, cabs and ferries, has long had one glaring exception to its many transportation options: bicycles for the masses.
But bike sharing is finally coming to the Big Apple, which could help the city overcome its reputation as a commuter obstacle course of speeding cabbies, horn-honking drivers and sharp-elbowed pedestrians who treat crossing signals as a mere suggestion.
City officials say the nation’s largest bike-sharing system will begin sometime this month with 6,000 bikes at 330 stations in Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, with plans to expand eventually to 10,000 bikes and 600 docking stations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.
“When you talk about scale, no other U.S. city comes close,” says Jon Orcutt, policy director at the city’s Department of Transportation, which is overseeing the launch of the program.
Biking is so much fun.
By Andrew Katz, TIME, May 12, 2013
An estimated 32.4 million people around the world were forced from their homes by disasters last year—98% of them weather-related—according to data just released by the Norwegian Refugee Council. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, one of the leading…
By Jim Robbins, NY Times, May 11, 2013
HELENA, Mont.—The world’s worrisome decline in biodiversity is well known. Some experts say we are well on our way toward the sixth great extinction and that by 2100 half of all the world’s plant and animal species may disappear.
Yet one of the most…
