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Global Warming: 2007 expected to be hottest year on record
Climate-change experts at the UK Met Office predict that 2007 is likely to be the warmest year on record globally, hotter than the current record set in 1998. The forecast points to the El Niño already established in the Pacific, that is expected to persist through the first months of 2007. Together with global warming due to fossil fuels this provides a high potential for record temperatures during 2007…
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Live on Camera: Space Debris breaks up in the Sky
Reporters from Live-TV station “Fox 31″ were quite surprised yesterday evening when one of their news choppers managed to capture the breaking up of space debris in the atmosphere. The “light show” that looked like meteorites - as NORAD has confirmed - was caused by the re-entry of a spent Russian science rocket. More information and a video at the…
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Photograpy: Jorn Olsen’s cloud pictures
As a short continuation from our “cloud spotting” story we wanted to point you to Jorn Olsen’s impressive photos of so called “Mammatus clouds”…
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UK: (Small) Tornado hits North London
While there are about 50 small Tornadoes reported on land in the UK each year - the most of all countries in Europe - this one due to the damages created is quite unusual. Within less then a minute that the tornado lasted it severely damaged more then 100 houses and injured a series of [...]
Corruption in Humanitarian AID and Health Care
Below you find links and summaries of some resources on the web that might be helpful as a starting point to understand the topic and issues of corruption with AIDS and health work in general…
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AIDS: Some less known facts on the disease (1)
Following below the first part of facts and thoughts on AIDS that most people don’t know…
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Henning Mankell: I Die, But My Memory Lives On
Most of us might know Henning Mankell for his Wallander crime novels but he has recently also published a non-fiction book on AIDS in Africa. The book is called “I Die, but My Memory Lives on: The World AIDS Crisis and the Memory Book Project”. Mankell who spent a substantial amount of his life in Africa, has with the “Memory Book Project” provided an opportunity to those dying of AIDS to create a record of their lives in words and pictures for the children they leave behind…
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01-December-2006: World AIDS Day
Today is World AIDS Day and we want to contribute by publishing some stories and thought on the matter that often get less attention than needed. We will also point you to some sources and facts that are not so popular with those that have been put in charge by our governments to fight this pandemic worldwide…
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Africa: The size of a continent
Many identify Africa with less-developed countries, disease and war ridden…
…but what almost all forget is the sheer size of that continent that will never allow one-size-fits all approaches. The map below provides a better understanding of the size by overlaying it with some of the largest countries in the world and whole continents…
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Worldprocessor: Data as Globes
Ingo Guenther’s “Worldprocessor” project that started in 1988 has created some of the most outstanding globes. Currently there are more then 300 different designs visualizing world statistical data as globes.
This project has been going for quite some time but the online catalog with hundreds of globes is still worth a look. We have selected a [...]
