California Wildfires, January 2025 Published on8 January 202510 January 2025byJonathan Crowe Online maps of the current wildfires burning near Los Angeles: California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) hasincident pagesfor theEaton,HurstandPalisadesfires, plusthis 3D incident map....
While we don’t always have the capacity to respond to current climate events, the wildfires in Canada this past summer were historic. I worked quickly to analyze, map, and chart the historically burned areas in Canada to illustrate how this summer’s wildfires were exponentially larger and occ...
California Wildfires, January 2025 Published on8 January 202510 January 2025byJonathan Crowe Online maps of the current wildfires burning near Los Angeles: California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) hasincident pagesfor theEaton,HurstandPalisadesfires, plusthis 3D incident map....
See how people have imagined life on Mars through history See how NASA’s new Mars rover will explore the red planet Why are people so dang obsessed with Mars? How viruses shape our world The era of greyhound racing in the U.S. is coming to an end ...
A group of researchers at MIT, Cornell University and University College London have used one of the world's largest databases of telecommunications records to redraw the map of Great Britain. The research, which will be published in the journal PLoS ONE
The Copernicus-2A satellite imaged the smoke plume and lava flow from the eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano near Grindavík, Iceland yesterday; Marco Langbroek processed natural-colour and short-wave infrared imagery to achieve the above image, which he posted to Bluesky. [Kottke] Previously:...
Canada, Greenland, and the Mediterranean (Nature,2017). Similar examples, such as the recent wildfires recorded in California, have arisen in subsequent years (CalFire,2023). The 2019/20 Australian wildfire season is another example: the wildfires affected, either directly or indirectly, nearly 80...
Thankful California communities giving back to first responders working to extinguish wildfires Another 1-2 feet of lake-effect snow to bury New York towns this week The Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: California wildfire threat becomes 'particularly dangerous'...
On balance I think Rowińska mostly succeeds: there were plenty of points where the math was still esoteric to me, but I still got that, yes, this was math, and here’s what it does in these cases. As the book progresses the math gets a bit more remote from popular understanding, ...
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