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  • Into the Wildfire

    Paul Tullis

    September 19, 2013 |

    The New York Times Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California

    Between climate change and an ever increasing population, wildfires are becoming more and more of an annual challenge to mitigate, with firefighters and policy makers walking a thin edge between the need for natural burns to maintain the healthy, safe growth of forests and the risks of letting fires get too close to developed property and human life. New advances in science and technology are helping scientists and land managers better understand not only how fires burn and spread, but how to contain them while educating the public about their importance.

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  • The Revolution Will Be Mapped

    Bob Burtman

    December 28, 2009 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Mebane, North Carolina

    Mapping technology has been used in creative ways to visualize discrimination on the municipal level and hold governments accountable for using methods that are hard to understand or quantify to perpetuate discrepancies. Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities in North Carolina is one of the first to do this kind of work, and their methods and expertise have spread across the nation.

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