Facebook Map the World!

Facebook has used it's data to map out its 500 million members around the world.

Amazing Satellite Images of Earth

Amazing Images of Earth captured by the European Space Agency and Nasa Satelittes. The image above is of Egypt and shows the population of Egypt living concentrated over the Nile Delta, useful image to discuss populution,

The link below has other images that could be useful

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2010/dec/06/satellite-eye-on-earth?intcmp=122#/?picture=369407901&index=7

Rio reborn, declares mayor, as police recapture infamous drug gang slum

Heavily armed operatives 'conquered' Complexo do Alemao in explosive confrontations that left at least 50 dead.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/28/rio-police-drug-gang-slum

Cumbria's natural landscape may be restored to ease flooding

Planning bodies consider return to meanders, flood meadows and long-lost plantations in valleys of Lake District

Cornwall mops up after devastating flash floods

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/nov/18/cornwall-flash-floods-weather

Cholera in Haiti

Emmanuel Tima and his son, who is recovering from cholera, return to their makeshift home in the Canaan settlement in Haiti. Photographs by Carlos Cazalis/Corbis for the Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2010/nov/17/haiti-cholera-audioslideshow

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (Redd)

Find out more about the international plan to allow countries and companies to offset their carbon emissions by paying poorer nations to preserve their forests.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/24/redd-reducing-emissions-from-deforestation