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"What is Tour Builder? Tour Builder is a new way to show people the places you've visited and the experiences you had along the way using Google Earth. It lets you pick the locations right on the map, add in photos, text, and video, and then share your creation. How is Tour Builder different from the existing "KML Tour" feature in Google Earth? Tour Builder is accessible from your web browser, makes it easy to add photos and videos to a sequence of locations on Earth, and then share links to these tours with your friends."

"This is not an environmental book, even though it is concerned with the environment. It is not a book to save the world, even though the world is clearly in trouble. Ultimately, A Matter Of Scale is a book about survival; about ensuring that every individual human has the means to save herself or himself from the crisis that is unfolding. And there most certainly is a crisis; like the waves of a surging river; small and irregular at first, but growing larger, creating whirlpools, rising in treacherous white water, and eventually inundating everything in its path. People know that the climate is changing, that species are being removed from the Earth at a rapidly increasing rate, that entire ecosystems are becoming shadows of their former richness; they know, but they do not understand. The environmental crisis is closing in on humanity from all directions, yet the crisis barely registers on this culture's list of problems. As we stand, humanity is doomed to a collapse that will leave only a few nomads, and a toxic, barely survivable Earth in its wake."

"00:57 #10. "Flight of the Navigator" (1986) 02:06 #9. "Starman" (1984) 03:21 #8. "The Abyss" (1989) 04:20 #7. "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (1976) 05:23 #6. "District 9" (2009) 06:42 #5. "Contact" (1997) 08:00 #4. "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) 09:07 #3, #2 & #1 ????"

"As I've pointed out previously, I doubt there will be a human on Earth by mid-2026. Indeed, I doubt there will be complex life on this planet by then. It'll be a small world, as was the case in the wake of each of the five prior Mass Extinction events on Earth. Bacteria, fungi, and microbes will dominate."

1. The Primordial Soup 2. Deep-Sea Vents 3. Panspermia 4. The Deep-Hot Biosphere Theory 5. The Radioactive Beach Hypothesis

"Luego de 8 meses de trabajo arduo, presento una nueva actualización de cerros del archivo para Google Earth. Como algunos sabrán (y para aquellos desinformados), no es más que un archivo .kmz que tiene montañas, quebradas y arroyos de Argentina. A medida que se van recabando más datos, éstos son cargados al archivo y cuando ya tengo suficiente información, subo el archivo actualizado. Cada actualización es una versión, y la última había sido en diciembre del 2013 (Versión 0.9)."

"Luego de 8 meses de trabajo arduo, presento una nueva actualización de cerros del archivo para Google Earth. Como algunos sabrán (y para aquellos desinformados), no es más que un archivo .kmz que tiene montañas, quebradas y arroyos de Argentina. A medida que se van recabando más datos, éstos son cargados al archivo y cuando ya tengo suficiente información, subo el archivo actualizado. Cada actualización es una versión, y la última había sido en diciembre del 2013 (Versión 0.9)."

Mapa global interactivo que permite visualizar en tiempo real el viento, el clima, algunos contaminantes y otras condiciones de cualquier océano del mundo

"There is only a 5% chance that the Earth will avoid warming by at least 2C come the end of the century, according to new research that paints a sobering picture of the international effort to stem dangerous climate change."

"Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a gas essential for life- animals exhale it, plants sequester it. It exists in Earth's atmosphere in comparably small concentrations, but is vital for sustaining life. CO2 is termed a greenhouse gas (GHG) - a gas which absorbs and emits thermal radiation creating the 'greenhouse effect'. Along with other greenhouse gases, such as nitrous oxide and methane, CO2 is important in sustaining a habitable temperature for the planet: if there were absolutely no GHGs, our planet would be simply too cold. It has been estimated that without these gases, the average surface temperature of the Earth would be about -18 degrees celcius.1 Since the Industrial Revolution, however, energy-driven consumption of fossil fuels has led to a rapid increase in emissions of CO2, disrupting the global carbon cycle and leading to a planetary warming impact. As an international community, UN member parties have set a target of limiting average warming to 2 degrees celcius above pre-Industrial temperatures."

"El grupo Mighty Earth ha publicado un informe con pruebas recogidas por drones, imágenes por satélite y trabajo de campo Según el documento, los agricultores locales queman los bosques para cultivar soja y vendérsela a los proveedores del gigante de comida rápida, que utilizan el pienso para alimentar a su ganado"

Colección de imágenes de la Tierra desde la ISS

El sur puede estar arriba y no pasa nada

"To revert the current ecological overshoot and build a sustainable society, we have to collectively engage in changing our economic model. "Sufficiency: moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency" suggests introducing hard limitations to unsustainable trends-in particular to overconsumption-and putting emphasis on distributional justice. Seven chapters written by sustainability and economics experts plus a foreword by Janez Potočnik (Co-chair of the International Resource Panel and former European Commissioner for the Environment) shed light on different angles of sufficiency and formulate concrete recommendations to EU policy makers. The booklet ends with a discussion of several eco-social policies that can start the transition towards an "economics of enough". Many new ideas for an economic paradigm shift have been developed and discussed at the academic and grassroots levels in recent years. The aim of this booklet is to build on a rich body of knowledge and bring these ideas to the attention of engaged citizens and policy makers in order to advance the debate on how to implement sufficiency."

"Documental que analiza el impacto de la posible llegada al planeta rojo a través de entrevistas a expertos y adolescentes que desean viajar a Marte."

"Shenton siguió la doctrina del escritor Samuel Rowbotham, quien propuso que la Tierra es un disco chato centrado en el polo norte y rodeado por un muro gigante de hielo, que sería la Antártida. La luna y el Sol estarían a 4800 kilómetros de la superficie de la Tierra, y lo que denominó "cosmos", a 5000 kilómetros."

"This comic is a timeline on how the temperature has changed from 20,000 BCE (Before Common Era) to the present day (2016), with three predictions for the rest of the 21st century depending on what actions are taken (or not taken) to stop CO₂ emission. This comic is a direct, but much more thorough, follow up on the previous global warming comic: 1379: 4.5 Degrees. By having readers scroll through millennia of slow-paced natural changes, Randall uses the comic to confront the the rapid temperature rise in the recent years. Over the past 100 years, human action has produced a large amount of CO₂ emissions, which have caused a rise in average global temperature through the greenhouse effect. This is called global warming and is part of a climate change, a subject that has become a recurrent subject on xkcd. There are still many people who claim that this is not happening, or at least that it is not caused by any human actions, called climate change deniers. One argument of theirs is that global warming is happening for natural causes, summarized with the phrase "temperature has changed before". "

"The time is now. For decades, scientists have been raising calls for societal changes that will reduce our impacts on nature. Though much conservation has occurred, our natural environment continues to decline under the weight of our consumption. Humanity depends directly on the output of nature; thus, this decline will affect us, just as it does the other species with which we share this world. Díaz et al. review the findings of the largest assessment of the state of nature conducted as of yet. They report that the state of nature, and the state of the equitable distribution of nature's support, is in serious decline. Only immediate transformation of global business-as-usual economies and operations will sustain nature as we know it, and us, into the future."