natural disaster Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:36:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Google Earth to Help Monitor Natural Disasters with Real-Time Satellite Imagery https://www.greenoptimistic.com/google-earth-will-provide-real-time-satellite-imagery-help-monitor-natural-disasters-20140110/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/google-earth-will-provide-real-time-satellite-imagery-help-monitor-natural-disasters-20140110/#comments Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:18:53 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=45064 The effects of climate change are becoming more and more apparent as each day passes by. Changes in habitat distributions, uncontrollable and devastating forest fires, severe floods, strong earthquakes and damaging landslides, these are only a few of the natural disasters that occur in a matter of hours and are increasingly becoming harder to monitor. […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/google-earth-will-provide-real-time-satellite-imagery-help-monitor-natural-disasters-20140110/feed/ 1 45064 Natural Hazard Early Warning Systems Improved Using GPS Data https://www.greenoptimistic.com/natural-hazard-early-warning-systems-improved-using-gps-data-20130521/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/natural-hazard-early-warning-systems-improved-using-gps-data-20130521/#respond Tue, 21 May 2013 13:55:07 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=37464 Scientists claim that the Global Positioning System (GPS) could save millions of lives by providing detailed information about upcoming natural hazards before they have occurred. As the effects of climate change are continuously accelerating, ice sheets are melting, sea level is rising and atmospheric currents are changing, we keep hearing about more and more cases […]

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