Bright Lights, Big Pity

Bright Lights, Big Pity

By Joshua Sokol, Science.org City lights lure migratory birds, with lethal results, but weather radar and modeling can help reduce toll Every 11 September at dusk, in memory of the 2001 attacks, New York City mounts the Tribute in Light, an art installation in lower...
British Geological Survey launches coastal dataset

British Geological Survey launches coastal dataset

By Mark Say, Managing Editor, UKAuthority The British Geological Survey (BGS) has unveiled a package of geographic datasets to support management of the national coastline. Named GeoCoast, the dataset provides information on the morphology, behaviour and vulnerability...
Get bird migration information in real time

Get bird migration information in real time

By Jim Williams, Special to the Star Tribune BirdCast provides live and local bird migration alerts throughout the country with real-time analysis of bird migration traffic as detected by the U.S. network of weather surveillance radars. This tool can be used to...
Climate data tools win NOAA challenge

Climate data tools win NOAA challenge

By Shourjya Mookerjee, Associate Editor, GCN The four winning teams developed digital tools designed to help local decision makers use federal data for better climate resilience planning. Since the 1980s, multi-billion dollar climate disasters in the U.S. have...
Disaster response and preparedness

Disaster response and preparedness

by Beyond Essential In disaster response, getting information to the right people as quickly as possible is absolutely critical. This is where Tupaia is helping. Tupaia provides a map pinpointing every health facility across ten countries in the Pacific When a...
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