Tuesday 16 September 2014

Is this it for britishness?

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2014/sep/16/-sp-is-this-the-end-of-brutishness

The King’s Own Scottish Borderers parade in the grounds of Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh.

Hull- to the edge of doom and back again...

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/sep/11/-sp-to-hull-and-back-the-rebirth-of-britains-poorest-city

A fisherman on the River Humber alongside the Alexandra Dock in Hull.

Hull’s Alexandra Dock is set to be transformed into Green Port Hull, a huge offshore wind turbine assembly and export facility.

To Hull and back

Japanese culture under threat....

Japanese culture at risk from the whaling ban....

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/15/japans-whaling-has-produced-more-sushi-than-science

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/16/iwc-extend-ban-japan-scientific-whaling

Japan's scientific whaling programme

Off to Timbuktu- not for much longer!!! An ancient landscape and culture under threat from Desertification

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/sep/16/-sp-life-timbuktu-mali-ancient-city-gold-slowly-turning-to-dust

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/sep/16/-sp-timbuktu-portrait-of-a-city-on-the-edge-of-existence-in-pictures picture essay


Timbuktu's open-air abattoir



A real shame, one of the great ancient civilisations is under threat from desertification!

Are they deliberately drowning migrants?!!!

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/16/migrants-children-drowned-boat-Mediterranean

Migrants rescued by Italian navy

impacts of illegal migration from Africa to Europe!
Now Africans are being deliberately drowned!!

Clean air deprivation in the UK


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28898901

Car exhaust

is the UK deprived of clean air
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28898901

Car exhaust

Amazon rainforest destruction increases......again!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-29151977

Area cleared of trees in the Anapu region in northern Brazil (04/2005)

Deforestation in the Amazon up 29% in the 12 months to July 2013

China marches on.....


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29107792





 China marches on- it is now creating land in the sea
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29161620

A look at how one of the world's poorest nations Malawi has met the Millenium development goal of reducing child mortality.
A look at how they are managing their population too.

The place where most of the descendants are from 1 man.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25430383

Palmerston island map

An amazing article on an isolated culture in the middle of the Pacific ocean- ships only stop by every 6 months