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A sulfurous steam plume, hundreds of miniature earthquakes and a new swath of ash on snowy Augustine Volcano have scientists looking for a possible eruption in the next few months. Alaskan Volcano Showing Signs of Erupting

Mystery Bulge in Oregon Still Growing

Excellent volcano video showing the eruption process. This is another link , with audio.

Here are a couple of links to good rainforest resources. . www.rainforesteducation.com Here are some graphs and images that can be used to illustrate deforestation: (Click on the image for full size) Figure 1: The current level of forest cover now remaining in the Brazilian Amazon. This study provides an "optimistic" and "non-optimistic" scenario that predicts Brazilian Rainforests degradation by 2020 Figure 2: optimistic scenario Figure 3: non-optimistic scenario In these images, black is heavily degraded, including savannas and other non-forested areas; while red is moderately degraded; yellow is lightly degraded; and green is pristine. Under the non-optimistic scenario, which is the current path we are on, there will only be 5% virgin rainforests remaining by 2020.

Here is the home page of www.whitescarcave.co.uk . Features an interactive tour!

Follow up from the Asian Tsunami. Full story from the National Geographic website.

Category : resources , drought , global warming Global warming is reaching the point-of-no-return, with widespread drought, crop failure and water shortages the likely result, according to a new international report highlighted in the British press. Read the full story here

Category : tsunamis , natural disasters , documentary Two programmes to be shown on Monday 24 January 2005 DISPATCHES LIVE SPECIAL: AFTER THE TSUNAMI The Asian Tsunami Disaster should make us stop and think about how our government spends our money in the rest of the world. Jon Snow chairs a live debate about policies that permit billions of pound to be spent on the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan while great swathes of humanity remain starving, diseased and impoverished. The debate will combine four short films in which international figures advocate the way they would re-work some of our governments' choices, with live studio guests including rock star Chris Martin, frontman for Coldplay and Free Trade; and Clare Short, the former International Development Cabinet Minister. This programme will be followed by: THE WAVE THAT SHOOK THE WORLD: AN EQUINOX SPECIAL Equinox looks at the science of the Asian Tsunami, and examines the effects of ...

Category : volcanoes , natural disasters , documentary Channel 4 : Saturday 22 January 2005 KRAKATOA As Asia struggles to come to terms with the terrible consequences of the tsunami of Boxing Day 2004, Channel 4 looks at the history, science and politics of the tsunami in three programmes this week. The first of is a two-hour film about the eruption of Krakatoa. 121 years ago, this same geologically active zone was hit by the most devastating eruption in modern recorded history. This dramatised account tells the story of the eruption, and of the scientists who took the first tentative steps towards understanding the geological forces that caused it. A live edition of Dispatches and an Equinox special, both on the Asian Tsunami, follow on Monday.

Category : poverty , farming , soil erosion This article from the Independent, dated Tuesday 18th January, details how farmers are given training in basic agricultural methods transforming the productivity of over one hundred acres of land. Aymiro Gedamu, a coffee farmer in the steep northern highlands of Ethiopia, used to dread the rain: every year it washed away his livelihood. Like most farmers in the Lalibela region, Mr Gedamu attempts to make a meagre living cultivating a hectare of hillside, perched perilously above a ravine. His farmland lacked something very simple: stone walls. "In the downpours," he said, "there was huge flooding, taking away all the soil, and the water would pour away into gullies". Read the full story here .