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NASA – Fire at Fuel Storage Facility in Puerto Rico

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

I’m browsing the Earth Observatory pages at NASA, sparked off by another Twitter user.
I thought this image of a fuel fire in Puerto Rico which happened in October 2009 was interesting. It shows the area affected by the incident which in the picture is about 140km long by 15km wide.
Fire at Fuel Storage Facility in [...]

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Seen on the BBC website – Google trick tracks extinctions

Friday, September 11th, 2009

This caught my eye a while back.
The algorithm used by Google to work out rankings for pages has been applied (theoretically) to food webs.  the implication here is that if scientists can calculate the state of an ecosystem they will be able to work out whether the system is vulnerable to collapse.
Of course things change [...]

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