Border Fence Raises Environmental Concerns

Although this isn't a Geo-technology article, the issue is inherently geographical and a good example where ecology, politics, and geography come into conflict. Not to mention a complete disregard for community participation in the public process.

“Lonely Planet” Article in the Washington Post

There is an article in the WashPost article today, spurred by the MODIS images of the southern California fires. It is interesting to see these MODIS images used so widely for what I think is the first time. The reporter gives his own take on an overview from the first satellites to Google Earth, and ends by saying that these technologies have allowed us to develop a "sense of the Earth as a whole." Not sure I agree, but an interesting take.

California Wildfires Keep Spreading

An interactive map of the wildfires and an update of the status of the firefighting efforts from the New York Times. Check it out.

MODIS Hotspots KML

Fire Information for Resource Management (FIRMS) at the University of Maryland is now offering KML to view MODIS Hotspot detections for the past 24 hours using Google Earth. Check out the Southern California fires that blew up this weekend. FIRMS KML link. Cheers, Josh

Spotted Owl in the news.

Spotted Owl in the news. I noticed this on the front page of the NYTimes webpage. (SNAMP)

Amazon natives use Google Earth, GPS to protect rainforest home

See this great article for an encouraging view of geospatial tools for conservation.

Coyote Bytes: LA Times Article

Our CoyoteBytes collaborator Bob Timm at Hopland Research and Extension Center was recently featured in the LA Times talking about the website Karin and Brian built. Check it.

Gorgeous Quest - Mapping the seafloor

Thanks to Josh for pointing this out. Watch this lovely Quest (from KQED) show on mapping our coastal seafloor from Sonoma to Monterey Bay. Great visualizations of active underwater remote sensing.

Reforestation in Niger!!!

I am not sure why the last post came out empty...very strange. This article is great "In Niger, trees and crops turn back to desert" NY Times: 2/11/07 This community planted trees to combat desertification and have shown success... It has a nice figure showing (reforestation) land use and land cover change using aerial photographs and a cool video! http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/world/africa/11niger.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Mapping two-headed invisible jaguars with Google Earth

I thought that you might enjoy this ... http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1114-google_earth-act.html