BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures: Nairobi's digital divide
Saturday, 19 September 2009
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Magazine / Geographical
Build flood defences, examine glaciers, advance renewable energy technologies, monitor water quality and more with a degree in geography. Read the FREE I am a Geographer careers supplement to find out more
Monday, 14 September 2009
Storm chaser
The extreme weather photographer and storm chaser Jim Reed has spent the past 20 years as close as possible – perhaps closer than is advisable – to the most extreme meteorological events. Covering disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Ike, Reed's book, Storm Chaser: A Photographer's Journey, documents his time in the field.
Surviving the direct strike of 17 hurricanes in the US, 2010 marks Reed's 19th consecutive year of extreme weather photography. Reed currently has images being shown at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington
In pictures: Storm chaser Jim Reed | Environment | guardian.co.uk
How drought is destroying Kenya's nomad
In the isolated border lands between Kenya and Somalia, families have always clung to a precarious existence. Now a decade of droughts has tested their endurance
VIDEO
How drought is destroying Kenya's nomads | Environment | The Observer
Saturday, 12 September 2009
Where the Premier League's players come from
Globalisation and sport. INTERACTIVE MAP
BBC SPORT | Football | Premier League | Where the Premier League's players come from
Thursday, 10 September 2009
Brits Abroad
World overview Welcome to Brits Abroad – a comprehensive guide to where Britons live around the world. Use the tabs above to explore the information, compiled by the Institute for Public Policy Research.
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
How to measure an earthquake
Originally, Charles Richter used information from seismographs - which measure earth movement - to work out the location and size of a tremor.
He developed a sliding scale based on the distance between an earthquake and the seismograph station where the quake was recorded and the amplitude of the largest seismic wave measured.
Tuesday, 8 September 2009
Intute - Natural hazards
These pages draw together resources about a range of natural hazards. These resources include satellite images, maps, articles, links to data, information on current and historical events, links to sources focusing on the measurement/classification of events, combined with links from the Intute Internet resource catalogue. Together these provide a growing resource about natural hazards around the globe.
Atlas Obscura
Welcome to the Atlas Obscura, a compendium of this age's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica. The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloging all of the singular, eccentric, bizarre, fantastical, and strange out-of-the-way places that get left out of traditional travel guidebooks and are ignored by the average tourist. If you're looking for miniature cities, glass flowers, books bound in human skin, gigantic flaming holes in the ground, phallological museums, bone churches, balancing pagodas, or homes built entirely out of paper, the Atlas Obscura is where you'll find them.
Sunday, 6 September 2009
BEEP BioEthics Education Project: Biodiversity
What is biodiversity? The Earth contains a rich and diverse assembly of organisms. This is known as Biodiversity and was defined by UNEP in 1995:
Wednesday, 2 September 2009
Aral Sea Continues to Shrink, August 2009 : Image of the Day
Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Aral Sea was the world’s fourth-largest lake. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union began a massive irrigation project in what are now Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, diverting water from the rivers that feed the Aral Sea to irrigate farmland. As its water levels dropped, the lake began splitting into smaller pieces: the Northern (Small) Aral Sea and the Southern (Large) Aral Sea. The Southern Aral Sea further split into eastern and western lobes. The Earth Observatory’s World of Change: Evaporation of the Aral Sea feature tracks this process over the past decade.
Aral Sea Continues to Shrink, August 2009 : Image of the Day
A vision of Britain in 2020: power cuts and the 3-day week
Britain's homes could be without light and heat for long periods by 2020 with the government being forced to repeat the 1974 imposition of power cuts by rota, a doom-laden report by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) says today.
By then, 80% of the gas to fuel Britain's power stations and domestic central heating will be piped "from politically unstable countries thousands of miles away." Mechanical failure, sabotage and terrorist attack would lead to power cuts within days, the report says. The society, established in 1818, says Britain will be at the end of a pipeline which passes through several other countries relying on imported gas.
A vision of Britain in 2020: power cuts and the 3-day week | Politics | The Guardian
Friday, 28 August 2009
Population growth at 47-year high
The UK population grew by 408,000 in 2008 - the biggest increase for almost 50 years, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The total number of people passed 61m for the first time, with changes in birth and death rates now a bigger cause of growth than immigration.
The numbers of people arriving minus those leaving actually fell by 44%.
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
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