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The Census of Marine Life in Google Earth

Martin W. Lewis — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:33:00 +0000

The Census of Marine Life, is the major international oceanographic research project involving researchers in over 80 countries, who tagged more than 120,000 types of species & millions of organisms over the past decade. The project is now revealing their findings for the 2010 calendar year. This has served to create the first world

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Storm Season & The Many Gifts of NOAA in Google Earth

Samuel Raphael Franco — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:10:00 +0000

Happy Labor Day, readers. This the time of year that brings together Hot Dogs and Hurricane season. A time to celebrate change, whether it is global climactic change, or a change in season. The 2010 year is characterized by a strong la Nina in the equatorial Pacific, which means a warm and wet winter for the

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Pakistan’s Fatal Floods in Google Earth

Samuel Raphael Franco — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:05:00 +0000

More than 20,000,000 have been displaced, more than have 1500 perished, as the worst Monsoons in Pakistan’s 65 year history as a modern state have inundated the country with record breaking floods. At least 6 six million people are now in immediate need of aid

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A Summer in Worldwide Human Rights Abuses–Illustrated In Google Earth

Samuel Raphael Franco — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:26:00 +0000

While the BP Oil Spill and the World Cup have stole headlines this summer, a number of disturbing trends have passed through the cracks of newswires without garnering a fraction of the fanfare.

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The Geography of the Whale Ship Essex in Google Earth

Samuel Raphael Franco — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:38:00 +0000

This week's presentation is an illustration of the ill-fated voyage of the Whale Ship Essex, the real life whaling voyage that inspired Moby Dick, in Google Earth Tour mode.To view the tour, the companion to this article, first download Google Earth, then download this file.The story of the Whale Ship Essex begins in Nantucket Harbor

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Compass Roses & Marriage Proposals: Visual Poetry in Google Earth

Samuel Raphael Franco — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:53:00 +0000

We are in the midst of a golden age for ephemeral and accidental art. Google Earth has allowed the anonymous artisans of crafts that best viewed from thousands of miles above the earth's surface, to find a forum for their work. Some of these works are painstakingly terraformed for years, while others are mere accidents

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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Capped: Here’s the So What.

Samuel Raphael Franco — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:06:00 +0000

This week the Deepwater Horizon Response team successfully capped the leaking well with its team of Remote Operated Submarines. While it is still not certain that these caps will hold, or entirely end the disaster, it marked the first time since April 20th, that oil stopped leaking into the Gulf.

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A Photo Tour of How Russian Billionaire & New Jersey Nets Owner Mikhail Prokhorov Made His Billions

Samuel Raphael Franco — Tue, 18 May 2010 15:05:00 +0000

Mikhail Prokhorov is the former CEO and billion dollar shareholder in the Norlisk Mining and Metals company, as well as rapper Jay-Z's current business parter, as majority owner of the New Jersey Nets. His photo has been intentionally excluded from the series above, so that his name will

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The Latest on the Gulf Oil Spill in Google Earth

Samuel Raphael Franco — Mon, 10 May 2010 00:31:00 +0000

After last week's dystopian projections on GeoCurrents, last Monday's New York Times countered with unreasonably rosy projections. Good news sells papers. The article conveyed a sense of hope in its readers that the spill, was not as large as feared, and could be easily plugged as soon as this

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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spillustrated in Google Earth

Samuel Raphael Franco — Mon, 03 May 2010 05:18:00 +0000

The last few Geocurrentcasts have featured environmental disasters on a massive scale, and this week's spill in the Gulf may top them all. If the fissure in the Ocean continues to spew anywhere near its current rate, and attempts to plug it have failed decidedly so far, the Deepwater Horizon spill is likely to become

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