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Dammed Anthropocene

James Syvitski a geology professor at the University of Colorado created this 200-year compilation of dams built in the USA. He used it to illustrated his talk on the age of the human-shaped Earth at the Geological Society of London … Continue reading

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Nile Delta at Night

Nile River Delta at Night from NASA’s EOS image of the day.  They write: The Nile River and its delta look like a brilliant, long-stemmed flower in this astronaut photograph of the southeastern Mediterranean Sea, as seen from the International … Continue reading

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Mapping the worlds rivers

Bernhard Lehner my geography colleague from Burnside Hall at McGill has recently released HydroSHEDS a new global map of the worlds rivers.  Maps based upon this data were featured in the March issue of National Geographic. HydroSHEDS is: a new … Continue reading

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