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Groundbreaking Mapping Project Depicts Forest Change Around the Globe
2013-11-15 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Scientists from Google, U.S. universities, and federal agencies have for the first time produced a high-resolution global map showing in striking detail the extent of deforestation across the globe. The project which relied heavily on expertise from the computing center Google Earth Engine documents a loss of 888,000 square miles of forest between 2000 and 2012, along with a gain of 309,000 square miles of new forest. The rate of deforestation is equal to losing 68,000 soccer fields of forest...
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Report on climate change depicts a planet in peril
2013-11-11 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Climate change will disrupt not only the natural world but also society, posing risks to the world's economy and the food and water supply and contributing to violent conflict, an international panel of scientists says. The warnings came in a report drafted by the United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The 29-page summary, leaked and posted on a blog critical of the panel, has been distributed to governments around the world for review. It could change before it is released...
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Software Visually Depicts and Mobilizes Utility Crews with a Click
2013-10-10 03:10:00| Transmission & Distribution World
ARCOS, Inc. has released its Crew Manager software to give utility storm managers and others access to a computer-generated board for visually organizing and mobilizing crews required during large power restoration events. read more
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New colour purple depicts worsening climate risks in U.N. draft report
2013-09-13 05:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Some parts of nature and human society are more vulnerable than expected to climate change, according to a draft of a U.N. report that adds a new purple colour to a key diagram to show worsening risks beyond the red used so far. It says "unique and threatened systems" like coral reefs, endangered animals and plants, Arctic indigenous communities, tropical glaciers or small island states seem be less able to adapt to warming than believed in a last report in 2007. The 44-page draft Summary for...
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