bobbycaputo:

Astronaut Chris Hadfield Explains How to Take Pictures of Earth from Space

Role model right tharr.

blah-city:

China’s car dream sours - turning in BMWs for bicycles. 

Great piece by the Financial Times.

treehugger:

Jaden Smith (actors Jada and Will Smith’s son) is supporting Earth Day Network’s Canopy Project, which plants trees in impoverished areas around the world. They want to plant 10 million trees in five years.

Learn more at The Canopy Project. 

Really nice project. Planting trees with friends is really fun, especially when you visit them years later.

pritheworld:

Emergency responders applied field tourniquets to many of those injured by the explosions at Monday’s Boston Marathon. 

The device, often improvised, had fallen out of favor with many in the medical establishment, but the American military experience in Iraq and Afghanistan changed that. http://ow.ly/kagSK 

First responders are key to emergency events. Really good video on how field tourniquets are used in the military and public emergency situations.Also, you just gotta follow PRI The World.

“The Partisans : How to Deal With Climate Change Deniers” - pretty funny.

Stephen Flynn is one of America’s foremost experts on cities, disasters, and security. Here, Bloomberg News interviewed Flynn outside and near the Boston Marathon bombing. His answers about how the city will cope is incredibly surprising as he launches into an easy to understand overview of resilience thinking in city planning. A must watch for my readers interested in resilience and cities.

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Video of a water main break in Russia. The explosion sends asphalt into the air to rain down on parked cars and pedestrians.

Aging infrastructure and deferred maintenance are the bane of cities around the world - especially America. The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the United State’s bridges, dams, airports, drinking water, roads, and schools a D+ in a recent report. Embarrassing? Absolutely. But cities are struggling to deal with an aging population and a lowered tax base. Schools, libraries, and park services are being cut (and gutted) all around the country. This means that cities are less likely to invest or fix problems with infrastructure, such as water supply. They can only react and look to the Feds for emergency cash. This mess we’re in will harm citizens in the long-term.

Fantastic climate change project out of the University of Kansas. It shows how UAVs (aka, drones) are being used to analyze disappearing ice and sea level rise. Most interesting is that this is an NSF funded project with excellent real-world applications. The project can assist coastal governments better prepare for impacts, help urban planners to build better cities, and get students involved in reducing vulnerability in coastal and low-lying areas. 

Cruise over glaciers in Greenland. Researchers use aerial footage for data collection and monitoring.

Few of us ever get to see Greenland’s glaciers from 500 meters above the ice. But in this video — recorded on April 9,2013 in southeast Greenland using a cockpit camera installed and operated by the National Suborbital Education and Research Center, or NSERC — we see what Operation IceBridge’s pilots see as they fly NASA’s P-3B airborne laboratory low over the Arctic.

Following a glacier’s sometimes winding flow line gives IceBridge researchers a perspective on the ice not possible from satellites which pass in straight lines overhead. By gathering such data, IceBridge is helping to build a continuous record of change in the polar regions.

Via NASA’s Flickr stream

Rodents of Unusual Size is a new documentary on an invasive rodent called Nutria. Nutria’s grow to about 20 pounds(!) and are destroying critical wetlands in Louisiana. Click above to learn more. 

laughingsquid:

Molalla the Baby River Otter Gets Swimming Lessons From His Mom

Mo is adorable. Here’s more on Oregon Zoo’s conservation projects.

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New video of the Exxon Pegasus oil spill in Arkansas.

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Wonderful live streaming solar powered Eagle Cam. Click through to see momma watch over her two eggs. Spring is here…

Home drone video of the Exxon Pegasus pipeline oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas. It’s being reported that media are not allowed to enter the site. Though, CNN has good video here.

I’ll be back tumbling soon, my lovely minions - traveling/working a bit. For now, contain your jaw drops as you watch Lisitsa’s perfect rendition of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata part 3.