Saturday, 21 January 2012

Are we this desperate?












The Yasuni National Park, known as "the lungs of the world" and one of the most bio-diverse places on earth, is under threat from oil drilling. The race is on to find the funds required to develop new sustainable energy programmes that would leave the oil - and the forest - untouched.


Read more at the BBC.

How are your map reading skills?

It may be old fashioned but I don't use a Sat Nav for exactly this reason!


Intrigued - read this article from the Telegraph.

Saturday, 14 January 2012

Sunday, 1 January 2012

Happy 2012

Happy New Year - Can you name the locations shown on the picture?