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COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
In October, NASA started sending out daily e-mails about global disasters, serving, in effect, as an earth-sciences version of the Fox network. These "Natural Hazards Announce" bulletins contain links to satellite photos of the world's craziest wildfires, volcanoes, storms, and "dust and smoke events," as well as when-good-fossil-fuels-go-bad curios such as "Floundering Oil Tanker Off Rio de Janeiro."
More than three thousand inquisitive souls signed up for the service, which is free, and the images--ash from Sicily's Mt. Etna pluming up like molten toffee; Russia's Kolka Glacier plunging down Mt. Kazbek; the Black Sea gone turquoise from a...
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