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Earth - Your life on earth. Explore BBC Earth's unique interactive, personalised just to you. Find out how, since the date of your birth, your life has progressed; including how many times your heart has beaten, and how far you have travelled through space. Investigate how the world around you has changed since you've been alive; from the amount the sea has risen, and the tectonic plates have moved, to the number of earthquakes and volcanoes that have erupted. Grasp the impact we've had on the planet in your lifetime; from how much fuel and food we've used to the species we've discovered and endangered.

And see how the BBC was there with you, capturing some of the most amazing wonders of the natural world. Explore, enjoy, and share with your friends either the whole page, or your favourite insights. This is your story, the story of your life on earth. BBC Earth's Your life on earth is based on the following sources. Lead photo credit: John Kellerman / Alamy. Earthquake Archive Search & URL Builder. Earthquakes. Latest Earthquakesv0.4.4, 2014-01-07 ListClicking the list icon in the top right corner will load the earthquake list.MapClicking the map icon in the top right corner will load the map.SettingsClicking the options icon in the top right corner lets you change which earthquakes are displayed, and many other map and list options.HelpClicking the help icon in the top right corner loads this page.Bookmark to save your settings.

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Links In Partnership With Please click the list, map or options icon from above. 300 km 200 mi Unavailable Earthquake Age HourDayWeekOlder 1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide. Effects. Global climate change has already had observable effects on the environment.

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Glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner. Effects that scientists had predicted in the past would result from global climate change are now occurring: loss of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise and longer, more intense heat waves. " Taken as a whole, the range of published evidence indicates that the net damage costs of climate change are likely to be significant and to increase over time. " - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Scientists have high confidence that global temperatures will continue to rise for decades to come, largely due to greenhouse gasses produced by human activities.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which includes more than 1,300 scientists from the United States and other countries, forecasts a temperature rise of 2.5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century. Climate Time Machine. Meteoritical Bulletin: Search the Database. RSOE EDIS. Recent Helicorder Displays. Radioaktive messungen in der brd. Earth Impact Effects Program. Robert Marcus, H.

Earth Impact Effects Program

Jay Melosh, and Gareth Collins Welcome to the Earth Impact Effects Program: an easy-to-use, interactive web site for estimating the regional environmental consequences of an impact on Earth. This program will estimate the ejecta distribution, ground shaking, atmospheric blast wave, and thermal effects of an impact as well as the size of the crater produced. Please enter values in the boxes below to describe your impact event of choice and your distance away.

Then click "Calculate Effects" to learn about the environmental consequences. Tell me more... Click here for a pdf document that details the observations, assumptions, and equations upon which this program is based. Copyright © 2010 Imperial College London. World Air Quality Index. Air Pollution in World: Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map.