Annually in September, the area of Arctic ice melting reaches its minimum.
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An artist named Nathalie Miebach has some unusual inspiration for the sculptures and music that she creates -- data from meteorological and astronomical instruments and ecological surveys.Miebach likes to collect the data herself, spending hours and days in the field trying to understand complex, dynamic relationships between different variables in an environment. The key, she says, often isn't to examine the numbers on the instrument -- it's to observe the different things that are going on around you.via www.wired.co.uk
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Here's a look at some of the most damaging hurricanes ever, as well as a few things you should know about the big storms.