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Interactive Wildfires Map Tracks the Blazes in the U.S
2014-08-19 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Monitor wildfires with our interactive wildfires map (above). The flame icons represent wildfires currently active in the lower 48 states and Alaska. Hover over a given fire to see its name, and if you zoom in youll be able to see the outline of the area thats burning the so-called fire perimeter. If you click within the perimeter, a window pops up showing the fires size in acres, the amount by which the perimeter has grown or shrunk over the past 24 hours, the fraction of the fire that has...
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IPython founder details road map for interactive computing platform
2014-02-14 19:10:11| InfoWorld: Top News
IPython, for "interactive Python," has been gathering steam as a mechanism for interactive computing and data analysis and visualization.
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Interactive Genetic History Map Revealed
2014-02-14 10:40:21| Biotech - Topix.net
An interactive map, produced by researchers from Oxford University and University College London , details the histories of genetic mixing between each of the 95 populations across Europe, Africa, Asia and South America spanning the last four millennia.
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Interactive Map Shows All 47,000 Wind Turbines in the U.S
2014-02-13 15:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As wind energy advocates fight for the renewal of a critical, expired wind energy tax credit and hope for the development of an offshore industry, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has taken note of the onshore wind turbines installed around the country. All 47,000 of them. That`s the USGS` installation estimate for the country as of July 2013. To illustrate it, the federal agency this week released a highly interactive map that allows you zoom in and out of all 50 states to view data on each...
Scary Interactive Map Shows Reason For Norway, U.K., And U.S. Announcement On Deforestation Fund
2013-11-21 18:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Progress: There is financial value in the carbon inside the world`s forests, and some countries announced on Wednesday a new commitment to investing in that value to lower greenhouse gas emissions. The United States, the United Kingdom, and Norway said Wednesday they would allocate $280 million altogether to a new initiative aimed at slowing deforestation. While there remained confusion and disagreement over how the U.N. disperses forest funding, this fund would be administered by the World Bank`s BioCarbon...