Coal, gas, nuclear, wind, hydro and biomass power plant health and safety pollution issues map. Search and share locations of power plant pollution, environment & community issues.
San Francisco earthquake of 1906Crowds watching the fires set off by the earthquake in San Francisco in 1906, photo by Arnold Genthe.(more) About 50,000 earthquakes large enough to be noticed without the aid of instruments occur annually over the entire Earth. Of these, approximately 100 are ...
John Nelson’s100 Years of Wildfireis a static map showing a century of California wildfires, simplified into zones of 100 square miles. The map measures the cumulative burn area for each zone over that entire time: this can exceed 100 or even 200 percent if large fires are frequent enough,...
Washington, constituent state of the U.S. Lying in the northwest corner of the 48 conterminous states, it is bounded by Canada to the north, Idaho to the east, Oregon to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Olympia is the state’s capital, and S
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This story summarizes the situation; satellite images of the smoke generated by the fires can be seen here, here and here. In today's Sunday edition of @washingtonpost pic.twitter.com/qHosujRKrG — Lauren Tierney (@tierneyl) September 13, 2020 Marena Brinkhurst of Mapbox has a ...
One species in Mexico, the Acer binzayedii, is in “desperate need of conservation"”despite only being discovered in 2017. “It is at risk from climate change in its cloud forest habitat and threatened by logging and forest fires while it is also absent from 'ex situ collections',” the...
The Battle of Arabian Sea starts with when the Ottoman Navy open fires on a detachment of the Japanese Navy. Although the Ottomans were able to sink a Japanese Destroyer the main fleet quickly moves to engage Ottoman Forces destroying the Majority of the fleet. This marks the effective defeat...
The truck is too big for the barge, the boat is too small to be pulling it and the wind and waves are never reliably consistent. We are living in a world now “that anything can happen” and as we are being reminded every day “people do all kinds of things” ...
last century, with some areas up 4°F. That number is expected to keep increasing, with temperaturesprojected to be 3-10°F warmer by the end of the century. Higher temperatures and summer moisture deficits in soil would increase the risk of forest fires in a region already prone to them...