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Fuel protests: Europe, Indonesia, Bulgaria and India We plot a map of the main fuel protests across the world as oil prices hit a new record high of $139 a barrel

WILKINS ICE SHELF - A huge Antarctic ice shelf is on the brink of collapse with just a sliver of ice holding it in place, the latest victim of global warming that is altering maps of the frozen continent. "We've come to the Wilkins Ice Shelf to see its final death throes," David Vaughan, a glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), told Reuters after the first - and probably last - plane landed near the narrowest part of the ice.

The Discovery Channel has developed a series of tools to help visualize the impact of global climate changes around the world.

A look at this week's environmental issues with a great interactive map