Map showing a 2.5 minute grid of global flood mortality risks calculated over the 20 years between 1981 and 2000. Click image to enlarge.
We’ve added 8 new global datasets on issues related to flood and drought natural hazards to our TerraViva! GeoServer as part of our work with the Socioeconomic Data and Applications [...]
Tags:Announcements·CHRR·CIESIN·Drought·Floods·Maps·Natural Hazards·SEDAC·UNEP·World Bank
Map showing the frequency of global earthquake events exceeding 4.5 on the Richter scale during the time period 1976 through 2002. Click image to enlarge.
We’ve added 11 new global datasets on issues related to earthquake and cyclone natural hazards to our TerraViva! GeoServer as part of our work with the Socioeconomic Data and [...]
Tags:Announcements·CHRR·CIESIN·Cyclone·Earthquake·Maps·Natural Hazards·SEDAC·UNEP·World Bank
Global map showing Annual Evapotranspiration from the UN World Water Development Report II (WWDRII).
We’ve added 20 new datasets on issues related to natural hazards and water to our TerraViva! GeoServer as part of our work with the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia [...]
Tags:Announcements·CIESIN·FAO·Maps·Natural Hazards·SEDAC·UNEP·Water
AUTHOR: W. Frederick Zimmerman, Research Scientist, ISCIENCES, L.L.C.
Editor’s note: Prompted by International Biodiversity Day celebrated on Saturday, May 22, together with the UNEP’s declaration of 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity, we asked our Global Data Hound, Fred Zimmerman, to spotlight the relationship between forest conservation and preserving biodiversity. The relationship might not be as straightforward [...]
AUTHOR: Amber L. Iler and Richard C. Cicone, Research Scientists at ISCIENCES, L.L.C
Today is World Wetlands Day and marks the 39th anniversary of the “Convention on Wetlands of International Importance,” better known as the Ramsar Convention because it was signed in Ramsar, Iran, on 2 February 1971. The Ramsar Convention is an intergovernmental treaty [...]
Tags:Eco Life Classes·FAO·Global Ecosystems·GLOBCOVER·Land Cover·Maps·Ramsar Convention·UNEP·USDA·Water·Wetlands·World Wetlands Day·WWF