Smog Shrouds Eastern China
China suffered another severe bout of air pollution in December 2013. When the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this image on December 7, 2013, thick haze stretched from Beijing to Shanghai, a distance of about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles). For comparison, that is about the distance between Boston, Massachusetts, and Raleigh, North Carolina. The brightest areas […]
A slight catch: Thailand’s overfishing crisis
As overfishing empties Thailand’s seas, Kit Gillet meets some of those desperate to take what is left and a local who is fighting back. Pictures by Luke Duggleby DAWN SEES TRAWLER FISHERMEN IN PHUKET SORT THE PREVIOUS NIGHT’S CATCH. POST MAGAZINE 19 OCT 2013 It’s almost midnight, 10 kilometres off the west coast of Thailand, […]
NASA – New Map Offers a Global View of Health-Sapping Air Pollution
NASA – New Map Offers a Global View of Health-Sapping Air Pollution.
Solar Farm at Dunhuang, China
For centuries, traders along the Silk Road relied on the oasis at Dunhuang for a reprieve from the withering sunlight and heat of the Gobi desert. By 2011, a large solar farm on the outskirts of the city had started transforming that searing light into an energy resource for the region. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on the Earth-Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite […]