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Here's one for you: The government says that by 2020 it wants all schools to be "models of energy efficiency and renewable energy" and provide "healthy, local and sustainable food and drink produced or prepared on site". British Schools Must Go Green Carrington Junior School in Buckinghamshire, have a wind turbine at the end of the playing field. School goes green with turbine The level of power generated and used will be displayed on an interactive whiteboard outside the library. A long-range, comprehensive plan like this should help not only lighten the footprint of British schools, but also produce better educated, and healthier students. More (green) power to the people! Woo! via: Treehugger

More solar cooking shennanigans... The Solar Cooking Archive

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More than 30 countries around the Pacific Ocean have tested a system to warn them of approaching tsunamis. Read more here . Here's a handy animation that shows how the Asian Tsunami happened. Click on the picture below!

Printable Maps of the United States.

Tarn (lake) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Triad Lake in Glacier Peak Wilderness (click picture for wiki page and image credits) A tarn (or corrie loch) is a mountain lake or pool, formed in a corrie excavated by a glacier. A moraine may form a natural dam below a tarn. (A corrie may be called a cirque.) More images of tarns here. via Google image search This is a page with a picture and a map showing the steep back wall (notice that the contours are very close together). See the definition of a cirque from the Illustrated Glossary of Alpine Glacial Landforms

DOZENS of the world’s cities, including London and New York, could be flooded by the end of the century, according to research which suggests that global warming will increase sea levels more rapidly than was previously thought. London 'under water by 2100' as Antarctica crumbles into the sea

Ever wonder what a Drumlin was? Here's a glossary featuring all the terms you might associate with glaciers, from the website All About Glaciers .

The Northern California earthquake of April 18, 1906, commonly referred to as the “Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906", is the most damaging earthquake in US history. This virtual tour utilizes the geographic interactive software Google Earth to explain the scientific, engineering, and human dimensions of this earthquake, so as to help you visualize and understand the causes and effects of this and future earthquakes. USGS Earthquake Hazards Program » A Virtual Tour of the 1906 Earthquake in Google Earth

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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

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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