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Britain from Above | Rescue the Past
Britain from Above | Rescue the Past historical aerial images of the UK
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Elinor Ostrom - Telegraph
Elinor Ostrom - Telegraph The loss of an original thinker.
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ScienceCasts: Voyager 1 at the Final Frontier - YouTube
ScienceCasts: Voyager 1 at the Final Frontier - YouTube launched in 1977 and now on the edge of the start of interstellar space. This video explains the transition to interstellar space.
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BBC News - Rio 20: What's changed since the Earth Summit?
BBC News - Rio 20: What's changed since the Earth Summit?
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The Heat is On: U.S. Temperature Trends | Climate Central
The Heat is On: U.S. Temperature Trends | Climate Central Warming rates by state in the United States
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BBC News - Green decline 'may bring irreversible change'
BBC News - Green decline 'may bring irreversible change'
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Waterfootprint.org: Water footprint and virtual water
Waterfootprint.org: Water footprint and virtual water You can see how much water different foods and how much water different countries use per capita.
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Which Nations Consume the Most Water?: Scientific American
Which Nations Consume the Most Water?: Scientific American An article on the movement of water particularly in food products around the globe.
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A picture strip of the energy used for the production of bottled water in the US.

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When hitting 400 is not good: Levels of key greenhouse gas pass milestone, trouble scientists - The Washington Post
When hitting 400 is not good: Levels of key greenhouse gas pass milestone, trouble scientists - The Washington Post an interesting article on carbon dioxide concentrations in cold regions of the northern hemisphere.

More information on global carbon dioxide concentrations
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Last Weekend, Half of Germany Was Running on Solar Power : TreeHugger
Last Weekend, Half of Germany Was Running on Solar Power : TreeHugger This is an interesting article remembering that the sun is at its strongest in Europe at this time of year.Publish Post
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BBC News - Post-Chernobyl disaster sheep controls lifted on last UK farms
BBC News - Post-Chernobyl disaster sheep controls lifted on last UK farms I was doing field research when it rained out over Cumbria. We did not drink the milk for a while ... at least until the iodine-131 would have decayed to lower levels.
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BBC News - A universal plug socket... at last?
BBC News - A universal plug socket... at last? As a regular international traveller this story touched a nerve. The Swiss 3 pins not quite in a line is my most difficult one to date but I have an adapter for that now. Normally in Switzerland you can use a normal Euro 2 pin but not everywhere!

here is a an interesting Wikipedia source on the subject
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets
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BBC News - Yellow submarine hunting for alien species in lough waters
BBC News - Yellow submarine hunting for alien species in lough waters on first glance I thought it was a Liverpool story but not quite ...
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Homepage ::: Planet Under Pressure
Homepage ::: Planet Under Pressure this web site has a lot of useful information on climate change and its impacts. This was from a recent meeting in London ahead of this summer's Rio+20 meeting.

The Policy Briefs are a good read.

I was co-author of the Global health for a planet under pressure brief.
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