Recently added articles from GEO World:
Position: smoke and fire not always together.
Oct 01, 2009; ... Disasters often make me think of Douglas Adams' fictional comedy book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That may seem like a strange thing to think of during a disaster, but Adams cleverly writes of a Somebody Else's Problem (SEP) field, which is used to disguise all manner of alien ...
DARPA to identify urban threats.(NEWS LINK)
Oct 01, 2009 ... The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is spending millions of dollars to identify trash cans, as these and other common urban objects could, in the course of today's combat missions, prove to be tactically significant. As military operations in urban regions have grown, the ...
Study determines smart-grid readiness.(NEWS LINK)
Oct 01, 2009 ... The U.S. electric system, "the supreme engineering achievement of the 20th century," is aging, inefficient, congested and incapable of meeting future energy needs, according to a recent U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) report. As electric utilities work to overcome challenges laid out in ...
Climate change risk list reveals vulnerable nations.(NEWS LINK)
Oct 01, 2009 ... Somalia, Haiti and Afghanistan are the countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, according to the Climate Change Vulnerability Index (CCVI) released by Maplecroft, a global risks consultancy. The CCVI is part of Maplecroft's new Climate Change Risk Report 2009/10 that ...
Resource of the month.(NETLINK)(FortiusOne's Afghanistan's Election News Dashboard)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009 ... news.geocommons.com/afghanistanelection09 AFGHANISTAN ELECTION NEWS DASHBOARD FortiusOne, in partnership with Synergy Strike Force (SSF) volunteers and the Global Development Commons at USAID, worked to collect, map and share data directly from the ground during ...