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Sat, 04 May 2013 00:03:02 +0200

‘la vie est belle’ from our new album >looking...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:48:53 +0200

‘la vie est belle’

from our new album

>looking for the sea<

Find “The Waiting Room” in The Ghostly Store:...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:20:22 +0200

Find “The Waiting Room” in The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/collections/music/products/lusine-the-waiting-room

David Bowie - The Stars (Are Out Tonight)

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:58:25 +0100

David Bowie - The Stars (Are Out Tonight)

Every meteorite fall on earth mapped

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:22:55 +0100

Every meteorite fall on earth mapped:

Hier sind alle bekannten Meteoriteneinschläge auf der Erde seit 2300 v. u. Z. dargestellt.

definitelydope: By Peter Andrew

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:05:55 +0100

definitelydope:

By Peter Andrew

Umkämpftes Copyright

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:17:49 +0100

Umkämpftes Copyright:

Das geplante internationale Handelsabkommen ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) hat im vergangenen Jahr weltweit heftigen Widerstand provoziert – sowohl im Netz als auch auf der Straße.

calimae: Worldwide Impact of Open Access to MIT Faculty...

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:54:21 +0100

calimae:

Worldwide Impact of Open Access to MIT Faculty Research

Warming Cities in Europe

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 10:34:02 +0100

Warming Cities in Europe:

masuoka:

Climate models suggest that Europe’s urban areas will experience more hot days and tropical nights. These maps examine model predictions and urban conditions. (http://storymaps.esri.com/home/)

View map

geocrusader80: Photo: The world at Night

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 10:08:44 +0100

geocrusader80:

Photo: The world at Night

geocrusader80: Photo: #Map of Europe during the 15th...

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 10:07:30 +0100

geocrusader80:

Photo: #Map of Europe during the 15th Century

kart

ikenbot: Hurricane Sandy’s Caribbean Devastation Hurricane...

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 10:04:03 +0100

ikenbot:

Hurricane Sandy’s Caribbean Devastation

Hurricane Sandy’s toll in the Caribbean amounts to at least 69 dead, thousands homeless and few funds available to rebuild. Yet, the Caribbean carnage remains largely behind the scenes as media spotlight focuses on the US.

Sandy took the lives of 52 people in Haiti, 11 in Cuba, two in the Bahamas, two in the Dominican Republic, one in Jamaica and one in Puerto Rico. In light of the difficulty to rebuild in some of the impoverished areas of the Caribbean, especially Haiti, the United Nations will be appealing for emergency aid. “Haiti is trying to get its house in order, but each time disaster strikes, the progress is interrupted,” head of the UN’s office for the co-ordination of humanitarian affairs Johan Peleman told The Guardian. “This country is exposed to devastating consequences by each storm. With every burst of rain, entire mountains are washed away.”

Haiti was the worst hit

Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas took direct hits as Sandy approached them as a Category 1 and 2 storm.

However, the majority of deaths and the most extensive damage fell upon Haiti, already devastated by the 2010 earthquake. The storm passed to the west of the country, but dumped more than 20 inches (51cm) of rain in 24 hours, causing rivers to overflow.

The damage is especially significant there because the country already had about 400,000 homeless since the deadly earthquake. Now 200,000 more had been added to the list because of Sandy. During the storm nearly 17,800 people had to move to 131 temporary shelters.

Haitian Ministry of Agriculture official Jean Debalio Jean-Jacques announced that Hurricane Sandy destroyed 70 per cent of the crops in southern Haiti and caused widespread deaths of livestock. “We are facing a major crisis,” stated Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe. On top of all that, Haiti was also emerging from the aftermath of Tropical Strom Isaac, which hit the country in August, and a cholera epidemic that killed thousands and afflicted more than half a million people.

The Haitian government fears that the post-Sandy devastation may increase the number of cholera cases. Eighty-six new cases of cholera have already been reported in the last month and more are expected. The cholera outbreak began in October 2010 and many of the victims were from refugee camps established to host those who lost their houses in the quake.

More destruction

Sandy reached Jamaica last Wednesday as a Category 1 storm, killing one person, leaving dozens of families homeless and causing at least $16.5 million in damage, according to the country’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller. “Even before the hurricane we faced serious economic challenges. This has been made worse by the passage of Hurricane Sandy,” Simpson Miller said.

The storm then hit Cuba early Thursday as a Category 2 hurricane, killing 11 in Santiago and Guantanamo provinces, causing 5,000 buildings to at least partially collapse and 30,000 others to lose their roofs. In addition, Sandy damaged essential crops including banana, coffee, bean and sugar. Public buildings such as schools and hospitals were also damaged. Then as the storm turned to the Bahamas, it killed two people, toppled power poles and flooded streets.

In Puerto Rico the storm killed one person on Friday and forced 100 families to evacuate from their homes to seek shelter elsewhere.

In the Dominican Republic more than 18,100 people had to be evacuated as the storm destroyed bridges and isolated at least 130 communities. Flooding and heavy rains had damaged about 3,500 homes.

Difficulty repairing damage

Former secretary general of the Association of Caribbean States Norman Girvan strongly believes that other parties should pitch in to make the reconstruction possible.

“We should look at the Caribbean, because the hurricane has had an impact on Jamaica and Cuba and Haiti. One would like to see some form of Caricom [Caribbean Community] response to the severe infrastructural damage and human damage done in these countries, which unfortunately does not attract as much media attention as that in the US,” he told The Guardian. It will be very difficult for Haiti to rebuild on its own. “We’ll have famine in the coming days,” Kechner Toussaint, mayor of Abricots, a hard-hit community on Haiti’s Southwestern tip, told BET. “It’s an agricultural disaster.”

Also, John Chaloner at the charity Plan International told The Independent that in recent months there had been “demonstrations sparked by rising food prices”. Faced with food shortages and a wider cholera outbreak, Haiti is at risk of not only failing to restore itself, but falling deeper into destruction and even civil unrest unless help arrives.

Article via RT

tl;dr: “Dear mainstream media, Sandy fucked us up too.” — Your’s not truly, the Caribbeans

sadowa: The food security risk index – map The index has been...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:38:16 +0200

sadowa:

The food security risk index – map

The index has been developed by the risk analysis company Maplecroft for governments, NGOs and business to use as a barometer to identify those countries which may be susceptible to famine and societal unrest stemming from food shortages and price fluctuations. This map shows the results of evaluating the availability, access and stability of food supplies in 197 countries, as well as the nutritional and health status of populations

superstarling: Maps by Owen Gatley The world is so charming...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:12:58 +0200

superstarling:

Maps by Owen Gatley

The world is so charming like this.

kari-shma: Aerial Photographs of Volcanic Iceland by Andre...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:31:35 +0200

kari-shma:

Aerial Photographs of Volcanic Iceland by Andre Ermolaev

50 Years of Space Exploration

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:43:00 +0200

Embedded from Infographics Only

Vore: Old Maps vs. New Maps

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:51:44 +0200

Vore: Old Maps vs. New Maps:

voreblog:

Via Gruber comes a link to some interesting research by Jason Matheson that—on the surface—shows how poor the data provided by iOS 6’s Maps app for the Canadian province of Ontario.

This caught my attention for two reasons; the first is that I also live in Ontario, and my experience with the…

nature-brains: Although most Himalayan glaciers are retreating,...

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:19:06 +0200

nature-brains:

Although most Himalayan glaciers are retreating, some in the western Himalayas are more stable and may even be increasing in size. The region is so vast and varied in climate, precipitation and glacial behavior that it remains challenging to determine exactly how retreating glaciers will affect water supply in each location. A new study says the real concern is not glacial melt but changes to monsoon rains and snowpack melt.

(Image: Graphic showing glaciers and rivers of the Hindu-Kush-Himalayan region, from a new report by the National Academy of Sciences on climate change, glacial melt and water security in the Himalayas. Credit: National Research Council.)

HOW MANY PLANETS DO WE NEED?

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:17:49 +0200

cliffcrego:

LISTENING: August 22 was Earth Overshoot Day,
talk w/ Mathis Wackernagel
mp3 [Mb 24.6] http://bit.ly/OK05Fn
website http://bit.ly/UzwePM

“August 22 was Earth Overshoot Day, marking the date when humanity has exhausted nature’s budget for the year. We are now operating in overdraft. For the rest of the year, we will maintain our ecological deficit by drawing down local resource stocks and accumulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.”

zillobeast: Tinédzserként gyűjtöttem a térképeket, azt hiszem...

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:12:46 +0200

zillobeast:

Tinédzserként gyűjtöttem a térképeket, azt hiszem örök szerelem marad a geográfia. Ez is milyen szép.