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June is traditionally a month dedicated to the Envionment. The 5th is the World Environment Day, and all over the world a number of initiatives occur, reminding us how dependant we are of Nature,and how much can we do, both as individuals and as a collective force. Today we bring several infographic videos, from the many available on Visual Loop, that have in common the focus on the main environmental issues affecting the world. Hope they serve both as an alert and as an inspiration!

The scariest path in the world?This walkway now serves as an aproach to Makinodromo, the famous climbing sector of El Chorro in Spain's Andalucia. And it is the hairiest path. The area of El Chorro situated in the south of Spain is renowned amongst travelers and mountain hikers for its stunning scenery and climbs, yet this is not the main attraction on offer, El Chorro is host to one of the most dangerous walkways in the world, built by workers to transport materials between the Chorro and Gaitanejo Falls   www.youclimb.de

View the entire collection of winning images from the 55th World Press Photo Contest. The winners were selected from over 100,000 images submitted to the contest. Also app available.

Around the world in ten days.

See photos based on world map location - good for immersions and checking stereotypes.

"Short species video clips on some of the worlds most fascinating or endangered species"

SELECT a subject from the top menu and watch the countries on the map change their size. Instead of land mass, the size of each country will represent the data for that subject --both its share of the total and absolute value.

10x10™ ('ten by ten') is an interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time. The result is an often moving, sometimes shocking, occasionally frivolous, but always fitting snapshot of our world. Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time. Over the course of days, months, and years, 10x10 leaves a trail of these hourly statements which, stitched together side by side, form a continuous patchwork tapestry of human life.

Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world. View the entire collection by tag / topic.

Flip through this book

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

BEIJING (AP) - In the middle of an eastern Chinese city's new main road, rising incongruously from a huge circle in the freshly laid pavement, is a five-story row house with ragged edges. This is the home of the duck farmer who said "no."

A collection of photographs before during and after WWII - could be used to explore the many aspects of war.

Whole community lipsyncing to American Pie