Earth Knowledge plots environmental news on map of world

20May08

Earth Knowledge is an environmental news portal that aggregates news from around the Internet and plots it on a map of the world. It sports a slick well designed layout, and provides a simple filtering system for different types of environmental news divided into the categories: Biological Diversity, Land, Water and Climate. Each of those categories is then divided into further sub-categories.

Earth Knowledge is a great resource for current environmental news that allows students to match the nature of the article with it’s location on the earth and ask the questions, “Does one region have more of a type of news article than other areas?” Earth Knowledge could be a great first stop for any environmental research project.