Showing posts with label enviornment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label enviornment. Show all posts

Friday, October 11, 2013

New Study Predicts Year Your City's Climate Will Change


Using a new metric they call "climate departure," researchers have analyzed when climate change will result in "environments like we have never seen before."New York City and Washington, D.C., will have radically altered climates by 2047.

Manokwari, Indonesia, is one of the places facing a "climate departure" within a few decades.

Monday, November 19, 2012

MACHU PICCHU INN -PERU


View dazzling 20,000-footers such as Salkantay, the highest summit in the range and one of the most sacred peaks in Inca mythology.Also see the diverse ecosystems of the Andes, from ice-clad, high-alpine slopes to lush cloud forests and tropical orchards. Then venture deep into the mysteries of the Inca as we explore the breathtaking sanctuary of Machu Picchu.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Rain Forest of Republic of Congo


Canoes are vital for transportation on the rain forest rivers of the Republic of the Congo. The Congo Basin’s 500 million acres of tropical forest, second-largest in the world after the Amazon, are known for an incredible array of wildlife including great apes, forest elephants, and some 700 species of river fish. But people have also lived here for over 50,000 years. The Congo Basin currently provides water and food to about 75 million Africans.