The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has developed a government-sponsored earth science "island" in the rapidly growing online world of Second Life, a 3-D virtual world built and owned entirely by its residents, according to creator Linden Lab of San Francisco. Learn more HERE from the announcement picked up in Information Today, Inc.'s NewsBreaks Weekly News Digest for April 30, 2007.