03.27.09
The web and ecology
Crawling the Web to Foretell Ecosystem Collapse
By Alexis Madrigal March 19, 2009 | 5:28:18 PMCategories: Environment
The Interwebs could become an early warning system for when the web of life is about to fray.
By trawling scientific list-serves, Chinese fish market websites, and local news sources, ecologists think they can use human beings as sensors by mining their communications.