Monday, 26 December 2011

Glacier meltwater threatens villages

A glacier in Nepal is melting fast and creating a huge lake. The lake has the potential to be 6km long, 1 km wide and 100m deep and is sitting behind a mound of terminal moraine. The worry is that if the water breaks through the moraine the flood would sweep down the vally and destroy Villages and the people who live there.
Read the full story here.

Friday, 23 December 2011

Earthquake survival

How do people design buildings to survive earthquakes? Watch these videos to find out





The next big Californian earthquake

Its been a long time since California was hit by a big earthquake. What's gonna happen when it happens???



Rare clouds spotted in Yorkshire!

Big news cloud spotters! Some rare lenticular clouds have been spotted in Yorkshire this week.



These clouds are generally thought to be responsible for many UFO sightings. See the slide show here.

New earthquakes in New Zealand



Christchurch has been hit by new earthquakes almost a year since major quake destroyed large parts of the city. You can see that there are fault lines running right through New Zealand so they get plenty of earthquakes.

Read the full story here

Saturday, 17 December 2011

Could you use Olympic gold medals as a measure of development?

We use all kinds of data to measure how developed a country is so why not Olympic gold medals? China's definitely on the up...


Thursday, 15 December 2011

The best use of statistics ever




This guy takes statistics about countries level of development and visualises them so it makes sense. I know it sounds rubbish, but watch it, you'll be impressed.