Ecoclimax

Water and energy come into conflict around the globe. Use the map controls in the top left-hend corner to zoom and pan to an area of interest, or simply drag the mao around. Click on a location to explore local challenges and solutions. Each location`s marker reflects a prognosis based on the riskiness of the project, the likehood of success, and the consequences of failure. A nation`s ability to deal with its problem is influenced by the following for metrics: renewable freshwater per capita (millions of liters per person) , total primary energy per capita (total primary energy per capita) , population access to clean water, population access to electricity.

Threatened Species of Plants in each Country This chart shows threatened species of plants in each Red List category in each country. Number of threatened species of plants in 2008: 10962 Current Number of threatened species of plants: 11,020

On April 20, 2010 the oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded, triggering an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Nasa's satellite instrument MODIS, on board the Terra and Aqua satellites, has captured images of the oil spill. In this MODIS timelapse, images have been selected that show the spill most clearly.

Destin Beach, Florida, June 23rd, 2010. Child is screaming for mom to get the oil off her. Thousands of very fresh tar balls rolling in on Destin Beach.

It's summer, and you may be seeing more people out on the street walking and biking. But it's not just because the weather is nice. There are more people walking and biking year round, and the Department of Transportation is responding by dramatically increasing the amount of money spent on projects for pedestrians and cyclists. This is a look at the rise of foot-powered travel in America.

Percentage of Obese Adult Population (3-year average from 2005-07 CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data)

Obesity falls sharply with increased walking, cycling, and transit use!

The European Commision`s latest plan to reduce carbon emissions by pumping a huge slice of the 50 billion euros available for research and development into solar power, may raise a few eyebrows.

At the end, she simply breaks the tree...

Russian city of Volgograd on the Volga River. Strong wind swung the bridge.

This is a video of the darwin's beetle taken from the BBC's new "Life" documentary series.

The giant spider crab sloughed off old skin.

- Breathing air pollution in Cairo is the equivalent of smoking 20 cigarettes a day. - Water pollution causes up to 14,000 deaths a day. - There are over 400 polluted locations considered high-risk worldwide than affect more than 100 million people. - 60% of acute respiratory infections can be linked to environmental factors and kill 2 million children every year. - A recent study found that 40% of worldwide deaths were caused by water, air and soil pollution.

As the Deepwater Horizon continues to leak oil at a rapid rate, many people are asking whether we should be drilling in the Gulf of Mexico at all, while others say offshore drilling in the Gulf is a necessary source of oil. To help settle this debate, this is a look at oil around the world, who is producing the most, and what we use it for in this country.

There are some scary creatures in the ocean... none more scary than plastic.

The GAP (GAP Analysis Program) online map viewer shows land cover classifications at three levels.

People travelling by car: 27,9 million (9% of pop) Average round-trip: 626 miles Estimated total mileage: 8,7 billion miles Total memorial day CO 2 (Driving standard cars) emissions: 4,7 million metric tons (yearly emissions of Botswana)

Sir David Attenborough narrates this violent and bloody natural history video recording the disturbing scenes of a real Chimpanzee territorial attack.

Mass physics demonstration I rendered in the UDK, simulating 25,000 barrels stacked around a pillar 15,000 feet high, and then group by group falling to the ground.

Why? Water is a scarce resource, and being aware of your water consumption is a first important step. Calculate your personal water footprint, compare with friends, and take steps to reduce your impact.

Arctic temperature records

Mantis vs Colibri Photos: stvely

Rise of 33% from 6bn to 8bn people. With more people living in urban areas greater demand for food (demand will increase 50%), water (demand will increase 30%), energy (demand will increase 50%).

This is an old video of a cat exhibiting 3 different gait patterns as a treadmill is run at different speeds. Remarkably the cat was made decerebrate for the purpose of the experiment. This has lead researchers to the hypothesis that, when a quadruped walks/trots/gallops (or walks/runs in the case a biped), minimal control comes from the brain, and most of the control is computed morphologically through an implicit feedback structure in the bio-mechanical design. This phase transition phenomenon is still an active research area in the field of Passive Dynamic Locomotion.

A small clip from Animals are beautiful people. Directed and written by Jamie Uys. He made this before The Gods Must be Crazy.

Cat defeats bear:

Watch the awesome fight for survival as a grown male polar bear takes on a walrus colony at the edge of the Arctic circle.

1921: White Castle was formed as the first fast food chain. 1948: McDonald’s enters the fast food industry. 1951: «Fast food» appeared in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Also the same year Jack in the Box introduced the drive-through.

The female new guinea singing dog sings at the San Diego zoo

The Northern Lights are one of nature's most spectacular visual phenomena, and in this time lapse video they provide a breathtaking display of light, shape, and color over the course of a single night in Norway.

This video zooms in on the star-forming region known as the Cat's Paw Nebula (NGC 6334), which is located not far from the center of our Milky Way. Few objects in the sky have been as well named as the Cat's Paw Nebula, a glowing gas cloud resembling the gigantic pawprint of a celestial cat out on an errand across the Universe. British astronomer John Herschel first recorded NGC 6334 in 1837 during his stay in South Africa. Despite using one of the largest telescopes in the world at the time, Herschel seems to have only noted the brightest part of the cloud, seen here towards the lower left. NGC 6334 lies about 5500 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Scorpius (the Scorpion) and covers an area on the sky slightly larger than the full Moon. The whole gas cloud is about 50 light-years across. The nebula appears red because its blue and green light are scattered and absorbed more efficiently by material between the nebula and Earth. The red light comes pr...

Catching pike on camera Pentax.

From preparing bodies to burying them in natural settings, the green burial movement is attempting to make death more environmentally friendly and, in some ways, closer to the way it was in the past.

Plant on the west and northwest to provide mid-to-late afternoon shade in most locations. Shade east and west windows, but prune lower branches to prevent blocking the view. Plant shade trees over patios, driveways, and air-conditioning units.

This map shows the largest oil spills in history (1901 to Present), from tanker accidents and drilling operations, as well as a number of other notable spills. An oil spill is a release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment due to human activity, and is a form of pollution.

Sperm Whales, Physeter macrocephalus, Sleeping whales in vertical pose., Pico, Azores, Portugalю

Climate change, human impact, creative challenge.

Shepherd Luigi Balzan, leading a flock of sheep to pasture San Boldo, between the provinces of Treviso and Belluno.

Map indicating current position of Deepwater Horizon oil spill as of 6/08/10 and Globally Important Bird Areas most at rick.

In 1987 Peter had the idea of growing a chair. In 1995 Peter and Becky became life partners. One year later Pooktre was born. Together they have mastered the art of Tree shaping. Pooktre has perfected a Gradual shaping method, which is the shaping of trees as they grow along predetermined designs. Designing and setting up the supporting famework are fundamental to the success of a tree. Some are intended for harvest to be high quality indoor furniture and others will remain living art.

Man as Industrial Palase - Fritz Hahn (1927)

Facts about continent's wildness, and our impact on our wilderness (ecological footprint in hectares per person, relative population of animals in North America, North America's smallest and largest mammals, percentage of land (mostly) untouched by human activity, water availability and consumption per capita, Canada accounts for significant portions of the globe's natural resources) .

The Darvaza area is rich in natural gas. While drilling in 1971 geologists accidentally found an underground cavern filled with natural gas. The ground beneath the drilling rig collapsed, leaving a large hole with a diameter of about 50-100 meters. To avoid poisonous gas discharge, it was decided to burn the gas. Geologists had hoped the fire would go out in a few days but it has been burning ever since. Locals have named the cavern The Door to Hell. Next to capturing the gas, flaring is safer and friendlier to the environment than releasing the methane into the atmosphere as methane is a relatively potent greenhouse gas with a high global warming potential of 72 (averaged over 20 years) or 25 (averaged over 100 years).

Research in a variety of scientiffic disciplines suggests there are 85 to 90 per cent fewer fish and marine mammals in the oceans than there once were. The number of species found on a standard longline in the 1960s...

Dr. Pek Van Andel, who won an Ig Nobel Prize for making the first MRI images of a couple's sex organs while those organs were in use, also made a video of the phenomenon.

Based on recently revised estimates, BP's ruptured oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico continues to leak 25,000 to 30,000 barrels of oil a day. The new figures suggest that an amount of oil equivalent to the Exxon Valdez disaster could still be flowing into the Gulf of Mexico every 8 to 10 days. Despite apparent efforts to restrict journalists from accessing affected areas, stories, video and photographs continue to emerge. Collected here are recent photographs of oil-affected wildlife, people and shorelines around the Gulf of Mexico on this, the 51st day after the initial explosion. Oil covered brown pelicans found off the Louisiana coast and affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico wait in a holding pen for cleaning at the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Buras, Louisiana, June 9, 2010. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Tea, or Camellia sinensis L. , is a unique plant that has become part of our lives. With the refreshing drink made from the leaves of this plant, our day begins and ends. Now it's hard even to imagine human life without tea. Tea is the most "popular" drink of humanity. The homeland of the tea plant is Southeast Asia (it is there that we find "feral" tea plants as trees up to 20 meters high, which have been used for thousands of years by humans). The world learned what a tea drink is thanks to China. According to a legend, in 1737 BC, a servant girl of the Chinese emperor Shen-Nang was preparing a drink for her emperor and accidentally dropped a leaf of a plant, which grew near the palace, into the boiling water. The water turned a rich brown color; the emperor became interested in the new "brew," tried it, and liked it. This is how humanity's most beloved drink, tea, appeared.  Until the 19th century, China jealously guarded the secret of tea growi...

Russian tundra.