Deforestation rates across the Amazon have spiked this year, driving the devastating blazes. Our maps show the story.
The Amazon Forest, the largest contiguous tropical forest in the world, stores a significant fraction of the carbon on land. Changes in climate and land use affect total carbon stocks, making it critical to continuously update and revise the best estimates for the region, particularly considering ...
The mainstream of the great Amazon River (known as the Solimões River from the Peruvian frontier to the Negro River confluence) traverses the state from west to east; its major tributaries are the Iça, the Japurá, and the Negro rivers from the north and the Javari, the Juruá, the...
Fires are common and an important part of the natural cycle. Many trees and plants are fire-loving in the sense that they depend entirely on fire for reproduction, the cycling of nutrients or the removal of species for their personal gain. This usually leads to a mosaic-like landscape where...
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Fires in 1662 and 1680 caused great damage, and subsequent rebuilding gave Passau a Baroque character. Passau: flooded streets Soldiers paddling a boat through the flooded streets of Passau, Germany, 2013.(more) Passau has become the economic, cultural, and communications centre of southeastern ...
Our infrastructure runs inside data centers designed and operated by Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS data centers feature state of the art environmental security controls to safeguard against fires, power loss, and adverse weather conditions. Physical access to these facilities is highly restricted and...
Wildfire Aware is an interactive map of wildfires in the United States that lists fires by the number of personnel fighting them. Selecting a fire brings up a lot more information, drawn on 22 layers from Esri’s ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. [ArcGIS Blog] Link•Categories Disasters, ...
Temperatures reach their lowest peak, and Fedeledi start living underground, opening steam vents so that the underground cities don't freeze. OTL Italy starts unfreezing because of the steam vents. 1,660,000 The Second Ice Age re-bounds, with OTL Italy freezing again. Temperatures fall even ...
Due to an increasing number of unforeseen and potentially dangerous events worldwide (such as wild fires, demonstrations, natural disasters) travelers are required to stay up to date with what's going on in their destination. Government agencies such as theAuswärtiges Amtin Germany provide their...