geography

Geography Education in VR

Posted in Reviews, Software on 25th May, 2021
by Alex Muller

Virtual reality (VR) is also ideal for teaching geography in a fun and interactive way, real world travel for students is often expensive, time consuming and impractical, and learning from videos and textbooks just isn’t as immersive as virtual reality.

Seismic vibrations provide accurate way to monitor ice sheet decline

Posted in Science on 7th May, 2016
by Alex Muller

Researchers are getting positive results from a new method that tracks seismic vibrations caused by ocean waves to measure changes in ice volume.

Satellites detect 'thousands' of new ocean-bottom mountains

Posted in Science on 4th Oct, 2014
by Alex Muller

It is not every day you can announce the discovery of thousands of new mountains on Earth, but that is what a US-European research team has done.