That has led the company to reportedly consider splitting the network into halves – one focused on streams and another on photos.
On streams where they are plentiful, twilight mating swarms still gather thick as blizzards.
"For my entire life, I've seen the impact of long-wall mining on streams," she said.
The coal-mining practice known as mountaintop removal has inflicted great harm on streams and valleys throughout Appalachia.
Dams on tributaries of the Red River and on streams belonging to the Arkansas River system have similarly impounded many man-made lakes.
What is less obvious, however, is the devastating effect that the removal of trees and vegetation can have on streams and lakes.
The lamps, which are lit everywhere (e.g., in temples, in houses, and at crossroads), are also set afloat on streams, rivers, and lakes.
Dr. Wayne Minshall, a professor of ecology at Idaho State University, has studied the effects of fire on streams for 35 years.
A paper published in 2010 by Science of the Total Environment, a journal, discussed the impact of mining activities on the surface water in the valley, including on streams that feed the Lhasa River.
At the National Counterterrorism Center just outside Washington, where specialists can draw on streams of information from more than 80 databases across the government, two teams of intelligence analysts worked on different parts of the same problem.
