Why I Want Hurricane Shutters

Another image from NASA's Earth Observatory Project:
This nicely highlights a potential collision of fire and water; a sub-tropical strom hitting fires from the Florida drought. Unfortunately, it missed.

The full description can be read at:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17640

Aral Sea Recovery

Another image from NASA's Earth Observatory Project.

What I like about this is a postivie plug for the World Bank's environmental lending projects.

From http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17634

"... The North Aral Sea owes its rebirth to the Kok-Aral Dam, an $85.8 million project bolstered by a loan from the World Bank. The dam separates the North Aral Sea from its saltier and more polluted southern half. In early 2006, the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan announced that the Aral Sea had shown dramatic recovery in just months, rather than the five to ten years originally predicted...."

Map of Online Communities

Map on Online Communities from www.XKCD.com - buy this poster here: http://xkcd.com/c256.html

Intriguing fantasy geography of online communtities.

Subglacial Lakes

Check this image and description out.

From NASA's Earth Observatory:
"To the untrained eye, Antarctica may look like a giant piece of solid ice that rarely changes, but scientists studying the continent have long known better. The icy surface is dynamic, with glaciers and “streams” of ice flowing toward the ocean. Underneath the ice, the picture is equally complex. Thick masses of ice may appear to rest on solid land, but they actually float on water, with scattered islands bumping into their underbellies. Well inland from these ice shelves, the terrain includes mountain ranges and watery basins buried in ice....."

Full story at:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17626