Data by guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2013/jan/16/exposure-air-pollution-mapped-by-city
Earth 
Earthquake, Tectonic Plate Birth
On the afternoon of April 11, 2012, one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded — and now revealed to be among the weirdest — struck in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Sumatra. It’s a region all too… Read More ›
The role of remote sensing in the world’s climate research programme
The role of remote sensing in the world’s climate research programme? Is there some specific information that we can get from satellites to help us to improve our understanding of the climate? What does it mean “remote sensing”? Discover more… Read More ›
Arctic Terns
In this tour, Carsten Egevang, a researcher at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, talks about the migratory odyssey of the Arctic tern. These terns fly from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back every year. During its lifetime, the… Read More ›
How Much Water is Available on Earth?
The U.S. Geological Survey has released a report saying how much water is really available on Earth! If you took all the water on earth – in oceans, ice caps, lakes, rivers, groundwater, the atmosphere, and living things – and… Read More ›
Humanity consumes too much of Earth’s resources
An ever-growing demand for resources by a growing population is putting tremendous pressures on our planet’s biodiversity and is threatening our future security, health and well-being, reveals the 2012 edition of WWF’s Living Planet Report – the leading biennial survey… Read More ›
Anthropocene
A 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of our history, from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the Rio+20 Summit. The film charts the growth of humanity into a global force on an equivalent scale to major geological… Read More ›
What’s the Difference Between Weather and Climate?
Very important question! Often inflicted when someone is studying geography. I know something about it 
There is a lot of talk around climate these days. It seams to be the mane environmental issue. Lets go back to the bottom of this. Do we really understand the difference between climate and weather? If so, great, if not, read the article.
What Climate Means? Why Study Climate? Who is the National Weather Service? The answers to these questions and more in the NASA’s article.
Image: An example of a Monthly Mean Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) product produced from NOAA polar-orbiter satellite data, which is frequently used to study global climate change. Image Credit: NOAA
Click on the map to read the entire article.
Amazing Race to the Bottom of the World
One hundred years ago, on Dec. 14, 1911, the Norwegian Roald Amundsen and four companions trudged through fog, bitter cold and lacerating wind to stand at the absolute bottom of the world, the South Pole. Nowhere was there a trace of their British rival, Robert Falcon Scott. No Union Jack mocked them, no ice cairn bespoke precedence. The Norwegians had won the race.
The entire story about Amundsen’s expedition and scientific discoveries in Antarctic, click on the photo.
How the world works – in pictures
How the World Works has just won Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize. Let this beautiful hands-on guide take you around our planet. And enter our giveaway to get your own free copy
