A mysterious bronze disc found in a shipwreck has finally been identified as the oldest astrolabe on record.
Mapping historical storms data is now a little bit easier. Off the back of this blog, I have authored an R package (available at basilesimon/noaastorms) that downloads, cleans and parses NOAA IBtrack data for you. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases datasets known as International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship. These datasets are updated regulary and cover all our oceans. The data found in there is fantasticly detailed and goes back as far as 1850 in some case (I wonder how!). How to install library(devtools) install_github("basilesimon/noaastorms") Available functions getStorms: Fetch NOAA historical best track storms data > df head(df[1:5]) Serial_Num Season Num Basin Sub_basin Name 2 1902276N14266 1902 01 EP MM UNNAMED 3 1902276N14266 1902 01 EP MM UNNAMED 4 1902276N14266 1902 01 EP MM UNNAMED 5 1902276N14266 1902 01 EP MM UNNAMED 6 1902276N14266 1902 01 EP MM UNNAMED The first argument is a vector of basin codes from this list: NA: North Atlantic SA: South Atlantic NI: North Indian SI: South Indian EP: East Pacific SP: South Pacific WP: West Pacific To get storms that took place in the Atlantic for example, run getStorms(c('NA', 'SA')). The second (optional) argument is a date range to filter data with. For example: dateRange
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The Southern Poverty Law Center says there are a record number of U.S. hate groups this year with dozens in Ohio
There are currently 2,185 sites worldwide that the Ramsar Convention considers to be wetlands of international importance representing over 208,597,750 hectares. GIS Data for Ramsar sites is available from Wetlands International.
Sometimes a different perspective can help you see a problem with fresh eyes. The problem to be solved in Gainesville, Fla.? A hot spot of poverty, child abuse and neglect.
Researchers from the Institute of Transport Studies at Monash University map five years of cycling accidents in Melbourne
Even with the economy humming, Americans are feeling more anxious, depressed, and dissatisfied with their lives than they did in 2009.
HIV/AIDS is a leading cause of disease burden in sub-Saharan Africa. Existing evidence has demonstrated that there is substantial local variation in the prevalence of HIV; however, subnational variation has not been investigated at a high spatial resolution across the continent. Here we explore within-country variation at a 5 × 5-km resolution in sub-Saharan Africa by estimating the prevalence of HIV among adults (aged 15–49 years) and the corresponding number of people living with HIV from 2000 to 2017. Our analysis reveals substantial within-country variation in the prevalence of HIV throughout sub-Saharan Africa and local differences in both the direction and rate of change in HIV prevalence between 2000 and 2017, highlighting the degree to which important local differences are masked when examining trends at the country level. These fine-scale estimates of HIV prevalence across space and time provide an important tool for precisely targeting the interventions that are necessary to bringing HIV infections under control in sub-Saharan Africa. Fine-scale estimates of the prevalence of HIV in adults across sub-Saharan Africa reveal substantial within-country variation and local differences in both the direction and rate of change in the prevalence of HIV between 2000 and 2017.
Maps using government health data weave a telling set of stories from raw numbers, and they can help inform where future treatments are needed most.
In and around the tangled roots of the forest floor, fungi and bacteria grow with trees, exchanging nutrients for carbon in a vast, global marketplace. A new effort to map the most abundant of these symbiotic relationships—involving more than 1.1 million forest sites and 28,000 tree species—has revealed factors that determine where different types of symbionts will flourish. The work could help scientists understand how symbiotic partnerships structure the world's forests and how they could be affected by a warming climate.
Editor’s Note: As local newspapers have closed across the country, more and more communities are left with no daily local news outlet at all. At CJR, we have made an effort to tally that landscape with this map, using data we crunched ourselves based on reports from the Alliance for Audited Media. But readers are reporting that some papers […]
The same weather radar technology used to predict rain is now giving UC researchers the ability to track wild birds that could carry the avian influenza virus. Avian influenza, which kills chickens, turkeys and other birds, can take a significant economic toll on the poultry industry. In 2014-15, the United States experienced its worst bird flu outbreak in history, resulting in more than 48 million birds dying in 15 states, including California.
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Companies want to know the environmental impact of their supply chains. Researchers used a crucial commodity to show them.
Human memory doesn’t exist in isolation; the brain isn’t just responsible for memorizing things but also for processing and acting on the data that' s generated.
Creating maps in unprecedented detail is aiding efforts from vaccination to disaster relief. Gareth Willmer reports.
