Posted by enviro On August - 23 - 2008
Here is a map of the Sahara desert that I designed.
The Sahara desert is estimated to be about 9,000,000 square kilometers. It is bigger than the total area of Australia and almost as large as continental United States.
It encompasses Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia.
There has been [...]
Posted by enviro On August - 17 - 2008
In 1945, 61 percent of Thailand was covered by forest. This percentage dropped to 34 percent and currently about 28.4 percent of Thailand is covered by forest.
From 1990 to 2000 the rate of deforestation has been estimated at about 0.72 percent. From 2000 to 2005 deforestation had reduced to about 0.4 percent per annum.
The main [...]
Posted by enviro On August - 14 - 2008
Here’s a free map of Brazil. Please feel free to put it on your website or use it however you like. It features the locations of the main cities including, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Curitiba, Brasilia and Fortaleza.