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The government is to give England's schools almost £2m over two years to encourage children to study geography. Maybe they should start reading Geography Resources Online! BBC NEWS | Education | £2m to halt decline in geography

From Wired News, here are America's Most Polluted Cities

"British suburbs are being neglected and need to be nurtured" according to a think tank. Suburbs 'in need of renovation' Recommendations will include the creation of more communal spaces and the setting up of car-washing circles.

Molten rock below the surface of the earth is called magma. When this molten rock erupts onto the surface, it is called lava. The type of lava is determined by the percentage of silica in the lava. This page explains more about types of lava .

A hydrothermal vent is a fissure in a planet's surface from which geothermally heated water is released. Hydrothermal vents are commonly found in places that are also volcanically active, where hot magma is relatively near the planet's surface, e.g. at mid-ocean ridges. Here is a definition and more information: Hydrothermal vent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ...and here are some pictures of hydrothermal vents from Google, and this an extended description that you might find helpful...   A hydrothermal vent is a fissure or opening in the Earth's crust where hot water, minerals, and gases are released from the Earth's mantle into the ocean.  These vents are typically found near areas of tectonic activity, such as mid-ocean ridges, where magma rises to the surface and heats the surrounding seawater.   Hydrothermal vents can reach temperatures of over 400°C (752°F) and release a variety of chemicals, including hydrogen sulphide, methane, and iron sulphide...

Everyone who has been to the beach knows that seawater is salty. Everyone also knows that fresh water in rain, rivers, and even ice is not salty. Why are some of Earth’s waters salty and others not? Why is the sea salty?

Tony Philpotts via msnbc ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopian, American and European researchers have observed a fissure in a desert in the remote northeast that could be the "birth of a new ocean basin". Scientists watch for birth of a new sea

Photo Gallery by Jean-Pierre Scherrer

Need a GB outline for a report? Want to show what county you live in? Look no further! Ordnance Survey is now providing a selection of free, downloadable, basic small-scale maps of Great Britain for you to use for your own purpose. GB outlines with and without administrative boundaries are available in EPS, TIF, PDF, GIF and WMF format; download the style and format of your choice to use in your word processing, presentation or graphics application. Free downloadable outline maps

There are some good web sites explaining this: http://www.angliacampus.com/tour/sec/geog/coastal/page07.htm Detailed explanation of headland development http://www.rgs.edu.sg/events/geotrip/bay.html Excellent on the formation of headland and bays with animations http://www.rgs.edu.sg/events/geotrip/stack.html Excellent on the development of caves, arches and stacks on headlands with animations http://www.angliacampus.com/tour/sec/geog/coastal/page07.htm#14 Detailed explanation and photos of headland development

Interactive animations from the BBC. Find out why the Gulf Stream might slow and how the greenhouse effect works. Here .

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.