Disasters and World Issues
Disasters and World Issues
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GreatKids - a project to celebrate and honor the incredible things that kids in our communities do to make the world a better place. Miss Maggie's Earth Adventures - offers environmental lessons for kids. The United Nations CyberSchoolBus Learn about the United Nations, and have fun doing it! Sign up for a free newsletter. Sign the guestbook. Conduct research. Add your page to the Atlas of Student Action for the Planet. KIND News - monthly publication for kids who care about people, animals, and the Earth. Amnesty International Campaigns, actions, events and news. The Peace Channel An online global news magazine from Auckland, New Zealand, for the people of tomorrow - a medium through which youth can connect on the issues that will shape life in the 21st century. Australian Immigration - Macquarie Net Outlines immigration in Australia, including the Aborigines who came from Asia, the British convicts, the Chinese miners, and those fleeing WWII. Australia's Multicultural Origins Series of chronologies marks the historic events that forever changed Australia's multicultural makeup, including colonization and wars. Archive of 19th-Century Racial Images View cartoons published by Australia's 19th-century press depicting Australians, Aborigines, Irishmen, Chinese, and Polynesians. Lawstuff - Australia A web site with a whole bunch of stuff about legal rights, helpful legal contacts and toons for Autralian people under 18. Pop Clock Projection A daily update of the U.S. population by the U.S. Census Bureau! For more information go to the U.S. Census Home Page at http://http://www.census.gov/. Voices of Youth Children across the world have their say on current events on this site sponsored by UNICEF with a fine section on “Children and Work.” The Web of Culture The Web of Culture describes the whole world as 100 people and offers ways to communicate cross-culturally. The Virtual Museum for Children Field Trips for Kids - take a variety of field trips on the net, including Volcanoes, Tornadoes and Natural Wonders of the WorldDisasters
and Catastrophes Disasterium.com - the living almanac of disasters Natural
Disaster Reference Database Danger
Ahead! Historic Railway Disasters DisasterNet UMOJEPS Tornado Project Online! - This site gives the subject a little different twist, with tornado myths, tornado oddities, personal experiences, tornado chasing, tornado safety, and tornadoes in the past as well as more recent tornadoes. Boston Disasters and Other Info Sudan's Man-Made Famine - it received international attention in the early 1980s. The civil war and famine persist. Weather & Disasters: Links to man made disasters explore several sites from one page that will lead you to the information you need. Find links to storms, earthquakes, meteor showers, volcanoes, crashes and much more. Disasters Of The 20th Century Here are the disasters, natural and man-made, that have marked our turbulent 20th Century. International Rescue Corps - offers assistance at all natural or man-made disasters throughout the world. Food For All - a website detailing food needs around the world and the response, as well as general world issues. Perilous Times Perilous Times contains hundreds of links to Web sites on surveillance, crime, terrorism, earthquakes, volcanoes, comets, global warming, health concerns and disaster preparation. Counter-Terrorism Extensive list of links to counter-terrorism sites from the Disaster Center Colouring Our Culture You will find in the Gallery work produced by refugee Karen children (over 70 images) that show every aspect of their lives and reflect the stories their families have told them about fleeing the villages.
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Underground Railway - Freedom Webquest Asia and the American Crisis 2001 Hazard and Risk Virtual Library IFRC International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies outlines situation reports. With links to national chapters AirDisaster.Com - Featuring Breaking News, historical accident data, accident photos, videos, recordings, transcripts, and reports. Disaster Relief - what disasters are happening in the world today and what can you do about them? World Population 6 Billion Human Beings Every second five people are born and two people die, a net gain of three people. At this rate, the world population is doubling every 40 years. Volcanoes Volcanoes . Com The Ultimate Volcano and Volcano resources page Can We Predict Volcano Eruptions? Information Please: Volcanoes! Volcanoes
of the World Earthquakes Earthquakes with 1,000 or More Deaths from 1900 - This web page maintained by the National Earthquake Information Center (USGS) lists all earthquakes that resulted in 1,000 deaths or more since 1900. It specifies the date, location, coordinates, number of deaths, magnitude, and comments.Earthquake FAQs - This webpage, maintained by the USGS, provides a list of FAQs about earthquakes regarding beliefs, faults, general information, geological hazards, ground shaking, intensity, insurance, magnitude, historic earthquakes, measuring earthquakes, probability, safety, and seismographs. Wars The American Experience: Vietnam Ode to Joy and Freedom: The Fall of the Berlin Wall Kennedy and Reagan at the Berlin Wall Hope, Anguish and the Berlin Wall Chris De Witt's Berlin Wall Site
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