If you’re keeping track of the Deepwater Horizon/Gulf of Mexico oil spill, check out these links: Andy Lintner has mashed up Google Maps with data from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to visualize the oil spill over land. Put in your hometown to see how far the slick would reach in your area. [...]

Are you resilient enough to handle a few questions? Find out what you know about societal resilience, our focus this week, in the ISN Quiz.

For all the criticism about open collaborative projects, these have one unquestionable asset: the speed and efficiency of updates. In crisis situations such as the Haiti earthquake, this makes all the difference. I’ve been following the developments of OpenStreetMap (OSM) after the first earthquake hit and it’s fascinating. Just check this comparision with Google to [...]

“There are still people under the rubble. The count is not 100,000. There’s has to be at least [400,000] to 500,000 that are about to die. I’m on the ground. The numbers are high. [...] We spent the day picking up dead bodies. That’s all we did.” – Music artist Wyclef Jean talking to Fox [...]

With flooding in the Phlippines from Typhoon Parma and another system, Typhoon Marla, bearing down on East and Southeast Asia, severe weather events are again in the news, making this week’s focus at the ISN on natural disasters all the more pertinent. And even though one can’t say if these are the direct result of [...]