London 2012 resources
Sunday, 10 August 2008
BBC NEWS | Business | Global credit crunch, facts and figures
The panic in world financial markets has led to sharp falls in share prices and led to the contraction of credit markets. BBC News looks at how key indicators around the world have moved as recession fears grow.
BBC NEWS | Business | Global credit crunch, facts and figures
Friday, 8 August 2008
Olympic Medal Count Map - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
Circles are sized by the number of medals each country won in past summer Olympic Games. Click on a country to display a list of its medal winners
Olympic Medal Count Map - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Manufactured landscapes: The biggest nuclear power plants.
A blog dedicated to spectacular manufactured landscapes around the world
Manufactured landscapes: The biggest nuclear power plants.
Sunday, 3 August 2008
Friday, 1 August 2008
The rains have come, the land is lush but Ethiopians still go hungry
The green highlands of West Badawacho in south-west Ethiopia are not a place where you would expect to find hunger. The land is fertile and lush. Rain falls on fields covered with waist-high maize and red flowers dot the tree-lined tracks leading deep into rural farming land.
But West Badawacho is in the grip of the worst "green famine" it has experienced in decades and severe malnutrition can be found in many of the villages dotted among these fields. Here, and across Ethiopia, drought, high population density, successive failed rains and rapidly rising food prices are dovetailing to create a crisis. Ethiopia is bearing the brunt of the food shortages currently sweeping across east Africa threatening the lives of millions.
The rains have come, the land is lush but Ethiopians still go hungry | Environment | The Guardian
The Closure of the Docks - The London borough of Barking and Dagenham.
In the 1960s the amount of goods handled in the Port of London reached record levels. Yet in 1967 the East India Dock closed, followed one year later by the London and St Katharine Docks.
At the beginning of the 1980s the last of the upstream docks closed when the Royal Docks stopped operations in 1981.
To understand why this happened in such a short space of time we must look at important changes which had been taking place since the Second World War. The full force of these changes hit the docks in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Closure of the Docks - London Docklands History for GCSE - The London borough of Barking and Dagenham.
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