Wednesday, 18 March 2009

TerraPass | Balance your carbon emissions and fight climate change

 Climate Change Chocolate

Chocolate bars. They're supposed to taste good, but can they also be good? We think so!

Our Climate Change Chocolate bar is meant to educate while tasting great. It comes in a wrapper with 15 tips for lightening your environmental impact. These helpful hints teach you how to save energy by making small changes to your daily habits

TerraPass | Balance your carbon emissions and fight climate change

Tsunami

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VIDEOs

Geoffrey Huntley : photos : Tsunami Videos- powered by SmugMug#273133686_MdFkg

Munich Re Group - Geo Risks

Losses from geo risks are increasing dramatically worldwide. Munich Re has been researching geoscientific phenomena, their risks and their loss potentials, since 1974.

Munich Re Group - Geo Risks

Water industry regulators

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Water industry regulators

Tuesday, 17 March 2009

water scarcity

What is water scarcity? Imbalances between availability and demand, the degradation of groundwater and surface water quality, intersectoral competition, interregional and international conflicts, all contributes to water scarcity.

Scarcity often has its roots in water shortage, and it is in the arid and semiarid regions affected by droughts and wide climate variability, combined with population growth and economic development, that the problems of water scarcity are most acute

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FAO Water Unit | Water News: water scarcity

Water stress in Europe - Maps and Graphics at UNEP/GRID-Arendal

10 figures for the report "Water stress in Europe, can the challenge be met?" published in 1997. Water resources, pesticides pollution, life expectancy...

Water stress in Europe - Maps and Graphics at UNEP/GRID-Arendal

EarthTrends: Searchable Database - Water Resources and Freshwater Ecosystems

 

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EarthTrends: Searchable Database - Water Resources and Freshwater Ecosystems

EarthTrends | Environmental Information

 EarthTrends Environmental Information

EarthTrends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute, that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world.

EarthTrends | Environmental Information

An Introduction to Water

10 ideas changing the world right now

 

The global economy is being remade before our eyes. Here's a guide to the future of the economy, the environment, medicine and more

News articles and special reports of current events - TIME.com

Sunday, 15 March 2009

Polar bears 'will not survive without urgent action' - Telegraph

 Polar bear: Polar bears 'will not survive without urgent action'

Polar bears 'will not survive without urgent action' - Telegraph

National Accounts of Well-being

What are National Accounts of Well-being and why do we need them?

nef has set out a radical proposal to guide the direction of modern societies and the lives of people who live in them. In contrast to the conventional narrow focus on economic indicators, it calls for governments to directly and regularly measure people’s subjective well-being: their experiences, feelings and perceptions of how their lives are going, as a new way of assessing societal progress.

Welcome | National Accounts of Well-being

The Boxing Day Tsunami

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Teaching Resources using Google Earth on the Tsunami

The Boxing Day Tsunami

LONDON Tube map

The movie above is a draft look at our 3D London Tube Map with the lines laid out according to their geographic location.
London Tube Map Geography:Visualisation Draft from digitalurban on Vimeo.

Tropical Rainforest

Volcano Erupts Mount Sakurajima Japan

JPL Climate Time Machine

INTERACTIVE maps of case studies that show changes in sea level, ice melt, temperature changes, average global temperatures

JPL Climate Time Machine

Thursday, 12 March 2009

Amazon could shrink by 85% due to climate change

Scientists say 4C rise would kill 85% of the Amazon rainforest
Even modest temperature rise would see 20-40% loss within 100 years

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Amazon could shrink by 85% due to climate change, scientists say | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Monday, 9 March 2009