Environment

Drought in New Zealand

26 Abril, 2013 - 06:01
Origen: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80990&src=eorss-iotd

Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory

– Lush green landscapes in New Zealand’s North Island took on a browner hue in summer 2013, as the area contended with one of the worst droughts in decades.

Penetrating Tree Cover to See the Forest Floor

25 Abril, 2013 - 06:02
Origen: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80982&src=eorss-iotd

NASAOriginally Published by NASA Earth Observatory - JPL’s airborne radar instrument opens up a view of tropical wetlands and forest around the Napo River.

New Technology Inspires a Rethinking of Light

25 Abril, 2013 - 06:01
Origen: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/business/energy-environment/new-technology-ins...

Originally Published by The NY Times

– Beyond the energy and cost savings, new types of lighting are now envisioned as ways to heal, soothe, invigorate or protect people.

Climate change influence on typhoons uncertain

24 Abril, 2013 - 11:30
Origen: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97466/Climate-change-influence-on-typhoons-uncert...
JOHANNESBURG 13 February 2013 (IRIN) - When Typhoon Bopha, one of the strongest storms to hit the western Pacific in recent memory, slammed into the Philippine island of Mindanao last year, there was much speculation in the media about the growing influence of climate change.

Flood-proofing Mozambique

24 Abril, 2013 - 11:30
Origen: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97464/Flood-proofing-Mozambique
MAPUTO 13 February 2013 (IRIN) - Mozambique has dealt with years of recurrent floods and set up an effective early warning system, yet the intensity of this year’s rains came as a surprise.

Providing water in areas with unsustainable usage

24 Abril, 2013 - 06:01
Origen: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://spie.org/x93668.xml?highlight=x2420&WT.mc_id=KNRREMOTEE

Originally Published by SPIE

– The Water for the World project is bringing fresh water to needy people by analyzing remote sensing imagery and other Earth observations.

The Possible End of the Aral Sea

24 Abril, 2013 - 06:01
Origen: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Earthzine/~3/pNpYHm72gRU/

* This project was conducted by high school-aged students at St. George’s School in Bogotá, Colombia, as part of a 2013 literature review project on ecosystems.

Research Question: How has the reduction in the flow of water affected the internal and external ecosystems of the Aral Sea? Especially, how has this affected bentic and plankton species within the lake?

Reef Decline as a Result of Climate Change?

24 Abril, 2013 - 06:01
Origen: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Earthzine/~3/BOIW9MVcs2g/

* This project was conducted by high school-aged students at St. George’s School in Bogotá, Colombia, as part of a 2013 literature review project on ecosystems.

Research question: How will the increasing sea surface temperature in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia affect the symbiotic relation between the zooxanthallae algae and the coral?

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