The World-Wide Earthquake Locator (from Matty Hodder)

The World-Wide Earthquake Locator aims to provide up-to-date information and detailed dynamic maps of earthquakes across the world within a maximum of 24 hours of their occurence. This web site also includes a database of past earthquakes, an animation of the past month's earthquakes, and statistical earthquake prediction.

QUAKE REPORT
Find out about the latest earthquakes around the world

CATALOGUE QUERY
Search our earthquake catalogue, and map your results.

QUAKE ANIMATION
View earthquakes over the past month as an SVG animation.

QUAKE MAPPING
View the lastest earthquakes on a world map, along with extra data such as plate boundaries, faults and volcanoes.

QUAKE PREDICTION
Find out about areas that are predicted to have an increased chance of experiencing a major earthquake.

Link to The World-Wide Earthquake Locator

Storm SURGE Thousands go home after tide fear

 

Storm Videos available

In PICTURES

 

Link to BBC NEWS | England | Thousands go home after tide fear

The World Bank, Mapped.

 

Mashed up Google Maps with World Bank data to give you a visual entry point to browse our projects, news, statistics and public information center by country.

Link to geo.worldbank.org | The World Bank, Mapped.

Climate Change online activities - BP Educational Service (BPES)

These four short Flash activities increase students' understanding and interest in key aspects of climate change: climate hot spots around the globe, the greenhouse effect, rising sea levels and deforestation. These activities can be used as stand-alone resources or to supplement the Climate Change resource pack.

Link to Climate Change online activities - BP Educational Service (BPES)

Coastal management

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PD Photo - Free, Public Domain Photos

Link to PD Photo - Free, Public Domain Photos

British Dam Society

 

You can find out about:

• some of the different Types of dams
• their Uses
• what Spillways & Outlets do
• professionals who Design dams
• methods of Building them
• how People and Environment are affected by them
• how their Safety is checked
• and Links to other interesting web-sites

Link to British Dam Society

Can Shanghai turn green and grow?

 

Shanghai has been transformed into a global city - but its rapid growth has produced pollution, traffic jams and overcrowding.In becoming one of the centres of the world economy, Shanghai has grown faster than almost any other global city in the past 15 years.

Link to BBC NEWS | Business | Can Shanghai turn green and grow?

Shanghai: Creating a global city

 

Shanghai is the ultimate poster-child for the effects of globalisation on cities and regions.China's largest city languished for 30 years as the Chinese economy was closed to outside influence, and the country went through the political turmoil of the cultural revolution.

Link to BBC NEWS | Business | Shanghai: Creating a global city

How much is family life changing?

A BBC poll suggests that three-quarters of Britons are optimistic about their family's future - a much higher figure than when people were asked more than 40 years ago.

There is  afamily test. A PDF of the BBC/ICM poll.

There are six photo journals published as part of the BBC's Future Family week, exploring the changing nature of family life.

Egypt, Sierra leone, India, Indonesia, Uk and China.

Link to BBC NEWS | UK | How much is family life changing?

BBC NEWS Online MIGRATION

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BBC NEWS | Health | Bed-blocking 'on the rise again'

Delayed discharges from hospitals - so-called "bed-blocking" - rose sharply last year, according to figures released in Parliament.

In total, more than a million "bed days" were lost, with an increase of almost 30% in acute hospitals.

Link to BBC NEWS | Health | Bed-blocking 'on the rise again'

Global food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bite | Environment | The Guardian

Empty shelves in Caracas. Food riots in West Bengal and Mexico. Warnings of hunger in Jamaica, Nepal, the Philippines and sub-Saharan Africa. Soaring prices for basic foods are beginning to lead to political instability, with governments being forced to step in to artificially control the cost of bread, maize, rice and dairy products.

Record world prices for most staple foods have led to 18% food price inflation in China, 13% in Indonesia and Pakistan, and 10% or more in Latin America, Russia and India, according to the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). Wheat has doubled in price, maize is nearly 50% higher than a year ago and rice is 20% more expensive, says the UN. Next week the FAO is expected to say that global food reserves are at their lowest in 25 years and that prices will remain high for years.

Link to Global food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bite | Environment | The Guardian

Migrants stories -CASE STUDIES

4 case studies
Catherine Chuungwe, 43, from Zambia, settled in Northern Ireland three years ago
Narina Shorland, 24, from St Petersburg, works at Riverford Organic Vegetables in Devon
Grzegor Jagienak, 22, from Poland, has been in the UK for three months working full-time as a bartender at Cargo, a club in Shoreditch, east London
Victoria Patricio, 28, born in Botswana, has Portuguese nationality and has been in Thetford, Norfolk, for three years. She is a facilitator with Meta, a project working with migrants

Link to Labour accused of failing to tackle misinformation | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited

New 'disaster' movie warns world of oil apocalypse | Environment | The Observer

Oil is 'the bloodstain of the earth's economy' and will soon trigger a global conflict that will cost millions of lives. That is the stark claim of a controversial new film, which says a crash in oil production is about to set off worldwide recession and economic collapse.

LINK to the films website

Link to New 'disaster' movie warns world of oil apocalypse | Environment | The Observer

Multinationals lead India's IT revolution

GLOSSARY

Outsourcing: Moving company functions from internal departments to external firms

Offshoring: Relocating corporate activities overseas.

Nearshoring: Relocating offshore activities nearer the client's home country

BPO: Business processing outsourcing - moving white collar tasks like accounting or invoicing. to an external firm

Captive firms: Companies owned by foreign multinationals who perform outsourcing services for the parent firm

UK call centres/US contact centers: Offices where workers provide telephone customer services like sales

Link to BBC NEWS | Business | Multinationals lead India's IT revolution

Climate Change website

Link to Home page of Climate Change website

Mass exodus from Mexico flooding

Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing severe flooding in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco.

The state capital, Villahermosa, has been largely abandoned after the Grijalva river burst its banks late Thursday, submerging much of the city.

Link to BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Mass exodus from Mexico flooding

Three Gorges Dam

Interactive site from FT.com

Link to 571cc608-87e4-11dc-9464-0000779fd2ac.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)

Tread Lightly

If we all Tread lightly we can make a difference

Guardian launches unique website to help readers to reduce carbon footprint.

If Guardian readers...

Switched to energy-efficient light bulbs this week, we could turn off a coal-fired power station for one day, one hour, 46 minutes and 1 second.

Turned off all appliances for a week instead of leaving them on standby, the power station could be turned off for 15 hours, 12 minutes and 43 seconds.

Turned down their thermostat by 1C for a week, we could turn off a coal-fired power station for 22 hours, 21 minutes and eight seconds.

Link to Tread Lightly | Environment | Guardian Unlimited