Quoted: VR panoramas from around the world. Part of the Geo-Images Project, University of California Berkeley.

Quoted: Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are now nearly 600 maps. Maps 1-366 are also available as PDF posters.

Quoted: Explorers looking for the lost cities in the Amazon have famously come up empty-handed. But now, scientists have found the remains of numerous smaller villages clustered around larger villages. Urban life may have been a part of the ancient Amazon after all.

Quoted: The spectacular Janjira fort, a chip of India’s African history, stands in the Arabian Sea, a few kilometers below Mumbai. It is literally referred to as the Island Fort. Covered with trees and roots, it is tall and majestic - proud of the fact that it remained the only unconquered fort in the region.

Quoted: Outcomes and benefits of a global informational system will include: disaster reduction, integrated water resource management, ocean and marine resource monitoring and management, weather and air quality monitoring, forecasting and advisories, biodiversity conservation, sustainable land use and management, public understanding of environmental factors affecting human health and well being, better development of energy resources, adaptation to climate variability and change.

I'm so interested in these floating islands in Loktak Lake.

Quoted: THE sangai, or Manipur brow-antlered deer (Cervus eldi eldi), a delicately beautiful animal found only in the hilly north-east Indian state of Manipur, has already had one let-off. In 1951 it was ruled extinct. Happily, a half-dozen were found two years later living on a vast island of floating biomass on Loktak lake, the second-biggest lake in India, to the south-east of Manipur's state capital, Imphal.

Quoted: Within the fence area, scientists have observed a strange phenomenon: above the native vegetation, the sky is rich in rain-producing clouds. But the sky on the farmland side is clear.

This is fascinating. A team of researchers led by Udaysankar Nair and Tom Lyons have proposed three possible explanations.

This could be helpful for architecture and city/regional planning.

Quoted: The Greenwich Emotion Map is a collaborative art project using BioMapping to chart an emotional landscape. Members of the community borrowed BioMapping devices and went for walks. The devices measure Galvanic skin response throughout the walk, and this suggests emotional response along the path of the walk.