IMPORTANT INFORMATIVE RESOURCES
The following websites and resources are extremely useful and should be checked very regularly.
GLOBAL NEWS AND MEDIA:
- Google News: http://news.google.com/
- World News: http://wn.com/
- CNN: http://www.cnn.com/
- BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/
- CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/
DISASTER AND HAZARD RELATED:
- World Hazards Alert Map: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php
- Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System: http://www.gdacs.org/
- Disaster News: http://www.disasternews.net/
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: http://www.thebulletin.org/
GLOBAL CLIMATE AND SPACE WEATHER:
- World Weather: http://www.worldweather.org/
- NASA Earth Observatory Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Images/
- NASA Earth Observatory Global Maps: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/GlobalMaps/
- Space Weather (asteroids, solar storms, etc): http://spaceweather.com/
- NASA Space Weather Prediction Center: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
DISEASE AND OUTBREAK RELATED:
- Outbreak News: http://outbreaknews.com/
- Google Flu Trends: http://www.google.org/flutrends/
- Flutracker (documents worldwide incidences of infectious diseases): http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/
ECONOMY AND FINANCE RELATED:
- X-Rates (foreign exchange rates and currency calculator): http://www.x-rates.com/
- Global Stock Market Indices: http://www.advfn.com/index/StockMarketIndices.asp