The small cetaceans of Cardigan Bay

New government map of climate impacts: Greenpeace response

Last edited 22 October 2009 at 6:01pm

22 October, 2009

Reacting to the release of a new Government map showing the potential impacts of a 4 degrees global rise in temperature due to climate change, Greenpeace head of climate and energy Robin Oakley said:

"It's up to our politicians to make sure this projection doesn't become an atlas in the future. Four degrees of warming could happen within our lifetimes, but we can avoid this by changing a political system that currently sees tackling climate change as less important than fighting the next election.

Article tagged as: climate change, maps, press releases

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Amazon cattle map

Last edited 20 February 2009 at 4:36pm

This map shows the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil and highlights some of the effects of the cattle industry on the Amazon rainforest. You can see how the slaughterhouses (the black dots) are strung along the roads through the state, which have cut through the green areas of forest and savannah.

Click on the Greenpeace placemarkers for more information and photos.

Article tagged as: agriculture, amazon, brazil, cattle, forests, maps

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Watch forests disappear (and occasionally reappear) in Google Earth

Posted by jamie — 4 July 2008 at 5:38pm - Comments

David Tryse's forest Google Earth layer

I've been playing around with Google Earth's KML spreadsheet as we're thinking of ideas we can contribute from the UK office to the Greenpeace layer in the Global Awareness section (recently added: highlights of our marine work), and I was checking out some of the showcased examples of good visual mapping done by other organisations. Amongst them, I came across this little beauty which visually represents the differing rates of deforestation around the world and it's quite, quite brilliant.

Article tagged as: deforestation, forests, google earth, maps

Greenpeace, Google Earth and global awareness

Posted by bex — 8 April 2008 at 9:39am - Comments

Google Earth

Google Earth launches a new layer

Images have a way of penetrating the mind and conveying information more immediately and powerfully than reams of words and, as far as images of our planet go, they don't come much more powerful than Google Earth.

The application - which has already done its fair share of enabling people to use technology for the good of the planet - has launched a new Outreach programme, encouraging us at Greenpeace and other organisations to use the application to spread global awareness.

Article tagged as: climate change, forests, google earth, maps, multimedia

Our proposal for marine reserves in the North Sea

Last edited 7 December 2006 at 6:01pm

A map of proposed marine reserves in the North Sea On land, the UK contains 14 national parks but none in the surrounding seas. We have identified seven marine reserves in the North Sea - find out more about these proposed areas and some of its inhabitants with this interactive map.