Explore Our Planet

Josselin Zaïgouche, freelance-designer from Paris, created 'switch me!'. It stands for our society's over-consumption and wasteful habits. You should think about whether or not you should turn on the light. Every time you switch on your entropy accoun ...>>

IISD: Print Version ACROSS: 1: decisions provide it; 4: one was agreed in Kyoto; 9: observer Party to the Protocol; 12: used by Annex I Parties for the preparation of inventories; 13: [backwards] COP 11 host’s domain; 14: --NGOs; 15: UNFCCC’s ...>>

Every month the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) has a look at the month before and publishes a report from a historical perspective. July 2007 brought record and near-record warmth to the western United States, while much of the eastern and southern ...>>

The Campus Climate Challenge is an initiative of 37 leading youth organizations working to build a generation-wide movement to stop global warming. Combining grassroots organizing, coalition-building, and online media and communication strategies, The Chal ...>>

Starting in 1990 the round based game let you play the president of the European Nations. You have to reduce emission of carbon dioxid and stay in office, so do not offend voters with unpopular decisions or policies. Would the planet survive if you were i ...>>

From now (2007-01-08) the moon is metric and the radius measures 1,737.4 kilometers, the mass is 7.35E19 metric tons and the density is about 3.34 grams per cubic centimeter roughly 60 percent of Earth's density. NASA will return to Moon by 2020 and plans ...>>

Australian annual mean temperature anomalies (compared to the 1961-90 average) since 1910 to present Data collected by the Bureau of Meteorology indicate that Australia’s annual mean temperature for 2006 was 0.47°C above the standard 1961-1990 average, ...>>

As an impressive part the forest gallery presents photos of the biggest 18 forests on Earth from leading photograpers. Moreover the documentation explains the importance of forests and trees for humans and biodiversity. Take some time, enjoy the ambien ...>>

Nice interactive shockwave application at greenpeace.org explains storms, heat, extinction and melting glaciers as consequences of Global Warming. Your kids will like the animation of flooding, mosquitos and of Upsala glacier in Patagonia. ...>>

Nine expeditions during the International Polar Year 2007-2009 are awaiting your application. If you are between 14 and 19 and enrolled in high school this is a great opportunity to visit the ends of our earth. Students from any country in the world are invit ...>>

  When global temperature rises 1°C next decades the 400,000 years old record from Holocene is outranged. During the Middle Pliocene about three million years ago Earth was only 2–3°C warmer than today and sea level was 25–35m higher. Are we going ...>>

Astronomers are looking for habitable planets in our neighbourhood. The understanding of our Planet's history helps to determine the state of a remote planet by analysis of its light spectrum. Is it just born or full of life? Are there intelligent lifefor ...>>

With a fast Internet connection these ~90MB animations from the SeaWIFS Instrument provide a great view at the seasons of our Planet. Starting from Sep 1997 you'll see eight years with phytoplankton blooms and El Niños oscillating with temperature, nutri ...>>

Shockwave application showing in simulated real time human birth and death rates and the amount of emmited carbon dioxyd. Numbers are presented per country and global. While writing this 350,000 tonnes have been added to the atmosphere. ...>>

ClimateChangeNorth.ca provides a well elaborated website with a broad range of topics about Climate Change and its consequences. The website focuses specifically on the north, where changes are happening fast and provides information, lesson plans and reso ...>>

Each EU citizen is responsible for 11 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year, out of which close to 9 tonnes are emissions of CO2. Altogether the EU is responsible for around 14% of all GHG emmisions worldwide. The 'You Control Climate Change' program ...>>

Currently the Tunza International Children's Conference is hold in Malaysia at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC). The Conference is for children between the ages of 10 to 14. Participants are nominated by their schools and community organi ...>>

The EU is in process of releasing INSPIRE as the Proposed European Commission Directive on European Spatial Data Infrastucture. There is a last chance to stop them from making Geographic Data collected by National Mapping Agencies all over Europe a property o ...>>