How big is Africa?
This map helps you put it into perspective ...
McDonald's is an example of a Trans-National Corporation (TNC)
What questions does this graphic want you to ask?
Geography in the News:
Here are some interesting articles to peruse and get your little grey cells ticking over ...Weather and Climate
- How worried should we be about the polar icecaps melting? (BBC Video clip)
- Lake Tanganyika hit by climate change (BBC Video clip)
- Nasa forecast: Which cities will flood as ice melts? (BBC News)
- What is fog? BBC Weather Clip
- Why the sky isn't blue (BBC weather)
Dynamic Earth
- 'Volcano Plane' takes flight (Newsround looking at whether Eyjafjallajökull might erupt again)
- Monitoring DR Congo's deadly Nyiragongo volcano (BBC Africa)
- Watching volcanoes with Satellites (BBC Science)
- Iran-Iraq quake: Villages have vanished (BBC News)
As Ex-Hurricane Ophelia crosses Ireland we are covered in a strange brownish thick layer of cloud. The sky is distinctly Turneresque as clouds of dark orange Saharan sand almost totally obliterate the sun ... it is 3:30 pm and all of the lights are on! 
