50 great images from Google Earth

EarthzineEarth Observation

Originally Published by Google Blog – While Google Earth has powerful capabilities for getting things done, sometimes it’s just fun to browse around and look at cool stuff. The folks at TwistedSifter just did that, and released a list of 50 amazing finds on Google Earth. While many of them may be familiar to regular readers of Google Earth Blog, there were a few new pieces in there.

Storm batters south-west UK – in pictures

Amanda LewanDisasters

Originally Published by The Guardian – With winds of over 80mph and heavy rain, the south coast of Britain is once again hit badly by winter storms coming in off the Atlantic.