World Heritage Sites

We've been reading about World Heritage Sites in class. Here is an interactive map of all the heritage sites in the world https://whc.unesco.org/en/interactive-map/

 The Great Barrier Reef in the Pacific Ocean, and the dugong. 

The Great Pyramid's and the history of Egypt's pyramids.

   

 The historical center of the city of Córdoba in Spain.

 

Finally, did you know some World Heritage Sites are at risk? Why do you think that is?

Yosemite Nature Notes -- Horsetail Fall

We have read in class about Horsetail Fall. Here's a video from 2011 about what the experience of taking pictures there is like.






Follow this link to answer some questions and find extra information about Yosemite National Park.

https://ed.ted.com/on/zMJJcRHE

You can also relax by watching this wonderful 8K video of the park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg0QwoHh9w4

A continent of rubbish

We're learning about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 2nd Year of Bachillerato. It's a huge sea of plastic in the middle of the Pacific ocean and it causes a lot of environmental damage. It's quite unbelievable how polluted this planet is getting!

As a complement, we have also watched a TED conference by Charles Moore, the man who discovered it and who is fighting to make things better for our oceans. You can choose the language of the subtitles.





You can find more information about Charles Moore and his foundation at http://www.algalita.org/ More on the life of plastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6xlNyWPpB8 Finally, here you can see how the patch has increased and evolved through the years.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch [OC] from r/dataisbeautiful

Your life on Earth

Have you ever wondered how old you would be in Saturn? How many kilometers have you travelled around the Milky Way? Or how many times has your heart beaten since you were born? This BBC website gives you a lot of interesting information about your place universe. I'm sure a lot of the facts will surprise you!!

You can also test how much you know about Planet Earth doing this quiz About the Earth | British Councing LearnEnglish Teens

An interesting graffitti

View the original picture at Flickr

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Can you save energy just by changing your search engine?

That's what the people from Blackle think. According to them, a monitor uses more energy when it is displaying a white screen, so if the screen in your computer is showing a dark website, you are actually saving energy. So if the original version of Google was black, it is believed that we could all save up to 750 Megawatt-hours a year.



Critics argue, on the other hand, that the site is difficult to read, and that the energy you can save is less than the site claims. For a more detailed discusssion you can go to the wikipedia article on Blacle

What do you think? Do you think it is a useful initiative? Would you use this search engine?