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sea level global warming climate change greenhouse Kyoto Though far away from a quantitative tool Google Trends allows some qualitative analysis. Live picture above shows how often Google was used for searches with environmental relevant en ...>>

A quite interesting masterpiece of interactive education presents the Bradshaw Foundation in collaboration with Professor Stephen Oppenheimer. The 'Journey of Mankind' shows the migration of humans from Africa 160.000 years ago to the present. Now inhabit ...>>

Print, cut, fold and glue paper polyhedra to create your own pseudoglobe. From Tetrahedron to Rhombicuboctahedron: Carlos A. Furutihas has made map fold-outs in different resolutions and maps. All as PDF and ready for your color printer. via Ehrensenf. ...>>

Associates Press launched a hurricane simulator and gives an impression of the power of these weather phenomenas. Damage is shown on human buildings and trees. It even visualizes effects of storm surge and flooding. The Saffir/Simpson Hurricane Scal ...>>

Not a picture from this planet, but impressive anyway. Hopefully Hubble telescope will take more pictures from our universum in future. This one has been composed and mosaiqued using 51 individual Hubble photos plus a few ground-based. Galaxy Messier 10 ...>>

Your comupter searches Aliens with SETI? Well, from now he can compute more useful data. BBC started a distributed computing experiment. The entry page of the project is easy to understand with a lot of information and everyone is invited to share his persona ...>>

"One Planet, Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment demonstrates how our growing number of people and their consumption patterns are shrinking our natural resource base. The challenge is, how do we satisfy human needs without compromising the health of ...>>