Abhinav Kumar Shukla, from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology in Kerala, examines resource use and technological advances in modern society and explains the crucial need for a new paradigm in engineering – the paradigm of sustainability.
Scientists find the signal of a decline in the numbers of insects in Chernobyl’s exclusion zone, 20 years after the nuclear accident.
In a time when natural disasters and environmental catastrophes strike with increasing severity and frequency, the need for geo-located, accessible, easy-to-use information is of the utmost importance. In this article, NASA’s John Bolton explains the ease with which such a system could be created.
Climate experts updating the 2001 “burning embers” diagram, which looked at how risk levels change with a warming planet, find that the planet is being affected faster than expected
In the future, every stage of disaster management will benefit from widespread implementation of service oriented architectures designed mainly for non-disaster uses and based on open standards.
The U.S. Census, first conducted in 1790, was devised to count the residential population for the purpose of Congressional representation. Today the census data are being used for disaster management planning. It wasn’t until the 2000 census that night-time and daytime populations were reported. In this article David Haynes and Marc P. Armstrong explain their method for creating time-based population distribution.
Dr. William Smith of UNLV explains the importance of cross-cultural methodologies and their vital importance in the effectiveness of hazard mitigation systems in the Pacific Islands with a particular focus on the Federated States of Micronesia.
Four tons of seeds representing hundreds of crop species were delivered today to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault as it celebrated its one-year anniversary. The vault in nothern Norway is intended to serve as a fail-safe backup should the original samples be lost or damaged or to provide a Noah’s ark for agriculture in the event of a global catastrophe.
Former Vice President Al Gore is pulling a dramatic graph from his ever-evolving global warming presentation.
This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite on February 23, 2009, shows widespread fires across Southeast Asia. …Read more at the original article here (This article was syndicated in an earlier version of the Earthzine website, but is no longer reproduced here. Hope you enjoy the article at the original source).
