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Watch forests disappear (and occasionally reappear) in Google Earth
Posted by jamie on 4 July 2008.
I've been playing around with Google Earth's KML spreadsheet as we're thinking of ideas we can contribute from the UK office to the Greenpeace layer in the Global Awareness section (recently added: highlights of our marine work), and I was checking out some of the showcased examples of good visual mapping done by other organisations. Amongst them, I came across this little beauty which visually represents the differing rates of deforestation around the world and it's quite, quite brilliant.
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Greenpeace, Google Earth and global awareness
Posted by bex on 8 April 2008.
Google Earth launches a new layer
Images have a way of penetrating the mind and conveying information more immediately and powerfully than reams of words and, as far as images of our planet go, they don't come much more powerful than Google Earth.
The application - which has already done its fair share of enabling people to use technology for the good of the planet - has launched a new Outreach programme, encouraging us at Greenpeace and other organisations to use the application to spread global awareness.
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Our proposal for marine reserves in the North Sea
On land, the UK contains 14 national parks but none in the surrounding seas. We have identified seven marine reserves in the North Sea - find out more about these proposed areas and some of its inhabitants with this interactive map.
Nuclear Britain
Remaining forests detailed in unique map
Posted by admin on 21 March 2006.
Click on the map to see details of each region
We are destroying the world's precious ancient forests at an unprecedented rate. An area of natural forest the size of a soccer pitch is cut down every two seconds.
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Aerial view of Sellafield
1 ﾠ THORP: the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant. Used to separate plutonium and uranium from nuclear waste fuel. The fuel comes from reactors in the UK and from overseas. THORP discharges nuclear waste into the air and sea.
2 ﾠ B205: Magnox reprocessing plant. Used to separate plutonium and uranium from nuclear waste fuel. The fuel comes from the UK's Magnox nuclear reactors. B205 discharges nuclear waste into the air and sea.