Brazil Wants Rich Countries To Renew Kyoto Commitments
Brazil said it would press rich countries attending climate change talks in South Africa to renew their commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto protocol.
Active 2011 Hurricane Season Breaks Hurricane Amnesia
The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season officially ends Wednesday, having produced a total of 19 tropical storms of which seven became hurricanes, including three major hurricanes. Irene the first hurricane to hit U.S. in three years; Northeast reminded it’s also vulnerable.
Landsat in Memory of the World Register
What do the Gutenberg Bible, Tolstoy’s personal library, the Book of Kells, an 8th century illuminated manuscript, created by Celtic monks, and the Landsat Multispectral Scanner System (MSS) data archive have in common? They are all among the 245 international documentary collections that make up the Memory of the World Register.