Aqueduct Map

Aqueduct provides businesses, governments, and other decision makers with the highest-resolution, most up-to-date data on water risk across the globe. Armed with this information, these decision-makers can better understand how water risk impacts them—and hopefully, take actions to improve water security.

Splash

Camara /Camera: D80+MBD80 Objetivo / Lense: Sigma 105mm f2.8 macro Strobist/Lighting/Processing: Con el valde de lavar la ropa de mi madre, en la cocina y con el flash enfocado hacia la pared. Se ve la greca de la cocina y todo. Sin photoshop ni Camera Raw, tan solo se añadió el marco.

Water Droplets Experiment

This shot was taken with two flash units pointed at a graduated green/yellow acetate sheet behind the water tray. YN467 to left. Vivitar 283 to right. Flashes at 1/3rd power. Orange coloured water in tray and bottle. Graduated green/yellow acetate sheet behind. 2 second delay on camera. Flashes fired manually. The acetate sheet was made in Photoshop by laying a graduated green/yellow fill on a canvas of A4 size. Then the acetate sheet was printed at a local office services shop. The orange is a bottle Irn-Bru. For non-Brits, that's a soft drink favoured in Scotland. There's a blog started recently where you can learn the techniques to make droplet photos. feggyart.wordpress.com/
Bild: Feggy Art

Bio-Kunststoffe: Mit Mais gegen die Plastikflut – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Nachrichten – Wissenschaft

Bio-Kunststoffe: Mit Mais gegen die Plastikflut – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Plastikzeitalter. So werden in ferner Zukunft Historiker vielleicht unsere Gegenwart nennen. Denn Plastik ist in der Welt von heute allgegenwärtig. Mehr als 230 Millionen Tonnen Kunststoff werden nach Angaben von Branchenverbänden weltweit pro Jahr produziert – Tendenz steigend.

Mit gravierenden Folgen: Plastikabfall füllt die Mülldeponien. In kleinste Teilchen zerrieben und zerfasert verschmutzt Plastik auch die Meere – ein ökologischer Alptraum. Daraus freigesetzte Giftstoffe schädigen Meeresorganismen; Seevögel verenden, weil sie kleinste Teilchen verschlucken.

Quelle: Bio-Kunststoffe: Mit Mais gegen die Plastikflut – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Nachrichten – Wissenschaft

sam_churchill – Flickr

Transportation infrastructure

Engineer Ron Kulak of Argonne National Laboratory's Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center stands in front of a visualization of water flowing around bridge supports. The redder colors represent faster flow rates. High-performance computing provides engineers with the ability to visualize the flow in unique detail. Read the full story.