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Changing Planet Revealed In Atlas
ring writes "The United Nations Environmental Programme (Unep) has released a new atlas 'One Planet Many People: Atlas of our Changing Environment', to mark World Environment Day (WED). It compares and contrasts spectacular satellite images of the past few decades with contemporary ones." From the BBC article: "Among the transformations highlighted in the atlas are the huge growth of greenhouses in southern Spain, the rapid rise of shrimp farming in Asia and Latin America and the emergence of a giant, shadow puppet-shaped peninsula at the mouth of the Yellow River that has built up through transportation of sediment in the waters."
I'm a nuclear engineer and physicist and I can tell you we're quite a long way from developing profitable and useful fusion power. We've made amazing leaps in the last few years, but getting the technology anywhere will take decades.
"I want to see this happening on a global scale"
This shows a fundamental lack of understanding.
Those pictures of the emergence of our giant, shadow puppet-shaped peninsular overlords at the mouth of the Yellow River aren't very impressive.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/gg96rpt/chap7.htm l
Scroll about halfway down. There's a map showing the dramatic REforestation here in the united States.
Enviromentalists tend to 'overlook' these sorts of images.
To see more photos than the BBC offers, you can either order the book here (and murder another tree), or view some of the images in these PDF reports.
Nine higher resolution samples from the book can be found at: http://www.grid.unep.ch/activities/global_change/a tlas/exemples.htm
Mirror. (They'll be there for a week or so)