World Environment day

[Tankus]

Watching channel 4 news tonight , and there was an interesting story on global change , documented by UN satellites over the last 30 years

link here

The publication compiled by DEWA/GRID-Sioux Falls, Selected Satellite Images of Our Changing Environment, provides a remarkable vision of the “human footprint” on the global environment as seen from space. Satellite images of fifty ‘hot spots’ that have undergone very rapid environmental change over the past 30 years (1972 – 2002) profile a wide array of environmental problems and threats. Diverse themes from across the world are covered, ranging from deforestation and associated biodiversity loss, disappearing wetlands and lakes, urban sprawl and glacial retreat. DEWA~Europe/GRID Geneva co-ordinated and researched a dozen sites and is one of the main contributors to the project.

The files are v. big ... but the text alongside the photos make an interesting read

examples in the activity box (top right )

[Tankus]

I didn't realise that the Dead Sea was going the same way as the Caspian... That salt works on the southern shore is really expanding ...big time

[andsome]

Very worrying. Remember however that chopping the trees down is an excellent thing to do, because it cuts down on the number of forest fires. Who said so??? George Bush.