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Photos: Google Earth issues stark climate change warning
Photo A second animation, developed by the British Antarctic Survey, shows the retreat of Antarctic ice caps since the 1950s, and features facts about climate change science and impacts in the Antarctic. World-leading climate science from the UK's Met... [22 May 2008]
Photos of the year
Photo The Vanco Arctic Survey expedition team is pictured here demonstrating some of the equipment they intend to take with them. This team of polar explorers will travel to and traverse the North Pole next year to survey the thickness of the Arctic ice. [13 Dec 2007]
Photos of the Month - November 2007
Photo The team were trialling technology that will be used when the three-strong Vanco Arctic survey team makes its way to the North Pole next year. Kicking off our photo stories this month was the iPhone launch on 9 November. [29 Nov 2007]
Photos: Arctic tech gets talking
Photo A polar explorer attempting to traverse the North Pole next year to survey the Arctic ice has sent the world's most-northerly as-live transmitted video message. The video footage was transmitted from the Arctic Ocean using the Vanco Arctic Survey's... [12 Nov 2007]
Photos of the month - October 2007
Photo This team of polar explorers will travel to and traverse the North Pole next year to survey the thickness of the Arctic ice. The Vanco Arctic Survey expedition team is pictured here demonstrating some of the equipment they intend to take with them. [31 Oct 2007]
Photos: Cool tech behind an Arctic expedition
Photo A team of polar explorers will travel to and traverse the North Pole next year to survey the Arctic ice. The Vanco Arctic Survey expedition will take 120 days, cover 2,000km and take roughly 10 million measurements of the ice's thickness via a... [17 Oct 2007]
Photos: Cambridge innovation day abuzz with fresh tech
Photo This phone is displaying a GPS-based technology that takes travel information, from sources such as AA Publishing and Ordnance Survey maps, and tells users where they are on a map and provides other location-based information. [07 Sep 2007]
Photos: High tech vans map out Europe
Photo Examples include Deutsche Post, which supplies house number information, and databases belonging to Ordnance Survey and National Land Survey. The Dutch company is one of two major European mapping organisations - the other being Navteq - that... [21 May 2007]
Photos: "Citizen cartographers" mapping the planet
Photo OpenStreetMap started two years ago and is aiming to take on the likes of Google Maps and Ordnance Survey (OS) by creating a free open source wiki-style map of the planet. Enough data has now been gathered that some of the maps are starting to get... [13 Nov 2006]
Photos: Team Silicon completes 3 Peaks Challenge
Photo A hard-earned rest: Andy McCue, Andrew O'Shea and Ben Brown survey the distance we have already climbed while taking a well-earned rest ahead of the final push to Snowdon's summit. The team: Smiles all round as the team prepares for the first... [19 Jul 2005]
