The finalist global voting of New7Wonders

Amazon

BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, FRENCH GUIANA, GUYANA, PERU, SURINAME, VENEZUELA

The Amazon Rainforest, also known as Amazonia, the Amazon jungle or the Amazon Basin, encompasses seven million square kilometers (1.7 billion acres), though the forest itself occupies some 5.5 mil

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Angel Falls

VENEZUELA

Angel Falls is the highest waterfall in the world, at 1,002 m, and is located in the Canaima National Park in Bolivar State, along Venezuela’s border with Brazil.

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Bay of Fundy

CANADA

The Bay of Fundy is renown for having the highest tides on the planet (16.2 metres or 53 feet).

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Black Forest

GERMANY

Black Forest (Schwarzwald) is a wooded mountain range in southwestern It is bordered by the Rhine valley to the west and south.

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Bu Tinah Island

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Off the western shores of Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, lies a unique natural treasure, wild and undisturbed by human activity: Bu Tinah Island.

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Cliffs of Moher

IRELAND

Located in county Clare, the Cliffs of Moher are amongst the most impressive places to see in Ireland.

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Dead Sea

ISRAEL, JORDAN, PALESTINE

The Dead Sea is a salt lake between Palestine and Israel to the west and Jordan to the east. At 420 metres below sea level, its shores are the lowest point on Earth that are on dry land.

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El Yunque

PUERTO RICO

El Yunque National Forest, formerly known as the Caribbean National Forest, is located on the island of Puerto Rico. It is also the name of the second highest mountain peak in the Forest.

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Galapagos

ECUADOR

The Galapagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed around the equator, 965 kilometres west of continental Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean.

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Grand Canyon

UNITED STATES

The Grand Canyon, created by the Colorado River over a period of 6 million years, is 446 km long, ranges in width from 6 to 29 km and attains a depth of more than 1.6 km.

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Great Barrier Reef

AUSTRALIA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

The Great Barrier Reef is the planet’s largest coral reef system, with some 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for 2,600 km over an area of approximately 344,400 square km.

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Halong Bay

VIET NAM

Halong Bay is located in Quáng Ninh province, Vietnam. The bay features thousands of limestone karsts and isles in various sizes and shapes.

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Iguazu Falls

ARGENTINA, BRAZIL

Iguazu Falls, in Iguazu River, are one of the world's largest waterfalls.

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Jeita Grotto

LEBANON

Jeita Grotto is a compound of crystallized caves in Lebanon located 20 km north of Beirut in the Valley of Nahr al-Kalb (Dog River).

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Jeju Island

KOREA (SOUTH)

Jejudo is a volcanic island, 130 km from the southern coast of Korea. The largest island and smallest province in Korea, the island has a surface area of 1,846 sqkm.

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Kilimanjaro

TANZANIA

With its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawensi, and Shira, Mount Kilimanjaro is an inactive strato-volcano in north-eastern Tanzania.

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Komodo

INDONESIA

Indonesia’s Komodo National Park includes the three larger islands Komodo, Rinca and Padar, as well as numerous smaller ones, for a total area of 1,817 square kilometers (603 square kilometers of i

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Maldives

MALDIVES

The Maldive Islands make up an island nation consisting of 26 atolls in the Indian Ocean. They are located south of India’s Lakshadweep islands, about 700 kilometers south-west of Sri Lanka.

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Masurian Lake District

POLAND

The Masurian Lake District or Masurian Lakeland is a lake district in northeastern Poland containing more than 2,000 lakes.

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Matterhorn/Cervino

ITALY, SWITZERLAND

The Matterhorn/Cervino is perhaps the most familiar mountain in the European Alps.

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Milford Sound

NEW ZEALAND

Milford Sound, located in the southwest of New Zealand’s South Island, is located within the Fiordland National Park.

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Mud Volcanoes

AZERBAIJAN

The term mud volcano or mud dome is used to refer to formations created by geo-excreted liquids and gases, although there are several different processes which may cause such activity.

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Puerto Princesa Underground River

PHILIPPINES

The Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park is located about 50 km north of the city of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines.

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Sundarbans

BANGLADESH, INDIA

The Sundarbans delta, at the mouth of the Ganges river, is the largest mangrove forest in the world, spreading across parts of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India.

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Table Mountain

SOUTH AFRICA

Table Mountain is a South African icon and the only natural site on the planet to have a constellation of stars named after it - Mensa, meaning “the table.” The flat-topped mountain has withstood s

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Uluru

AUSTRALIA

Uluru (Ayers Rock) is one of Australia's most recognisable natural icons.

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Vesuvius

ITALY

Mount Vesuvius is a volcano east of Naples, Italy. It is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years, although it is not currently erupting.

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Yushan

CHINESE TAIPEI

Yushan, part of Yushan National Park, is a central mountain range in Chinese Taipei and it also the name of the highest point of the range.

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Most sophisticated fighter plane in the world version dera study

None of the aircraft on Earth that could beat him. This is the F-22 Raptor, a futuristic fighter plane from generation to 5. What is the advantage definitive fighter of the 5th generation of this than the 4th generation (F-14 s / d F-18)? Here are some major advantages.





1. Stealth
The-art fighter plane is not going to look the enemy radar. If your plane can not be seen, then you will be almost impossible shot, dropped, and was defeated. The future of this technology mainly generated by the form of aircraft structural engineering and materials that absorb radar waves, RAM, Radar Absorbent Material.

2. Mini AWACS, "First-look, first-shot, first-kill"
F-22 aircraft has a radar with a range farther than other planes, even almost equal AWACS. This means that F-22 can see you long before you could see the plane. F-22 also has a system of super-sophisticated radar LPI (Low Probability of Intercept Radar), meaning aircraft that have been detected F-22 radar will not be able to know if he was detected and its warning radar will not light.

3. Super Manuverabilitas
F-22 Thrust vectoring technology in the tail, meaning the engine energy expenditure can be directed to the more mechanically flexible. This makes higher maneuverability.

4. Internal arms

F-22 weapons hidden in the plane, and only open when going to fire. This makes his Stealth level becomes higher, and aerodinamikanya make this aircraft fly faster and more efficiently.

Based on research from the Defense Evaluation And Research Agency, F-22 is the most sophisticated aircraft and the deadliest in the world, even 10 times more deadly than Russia's best aircraft at the moment, SU-35 (SU-37 is still a experimental).

Compared to European-art fighter aircraft Eurofighter Typhoon, F-22 two times more dangerous. This means that every single aircraft the F-22 could shoot down aircraft Typhoon 2. Whereas previous generations of American aircraft, F-16, could not possibly defeat the F-22 in any condition.

Rainforest destruction accounts for 17% of global greenhouse gas emissions

Environmentalists across the world are to be enlisted as armchair detectives to monitor satellite images of rainforests and report any illegal logging.

The images will be frequently updated and anyone with internet access will be able to make instant comparisons with historical images and spot destruction of rainforest almost as soon as it happens.

Every four seconds an area of rainforest the size of a football pitch is cut or burnt down for timber and paper or to clear land for cattle and plantations.

Rainforest destruction accounts for 17 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than is produced by all the world’s cars, ships and aircraft. Tropical forests cover 15 per cent of the world’s land surface and have a double cooling effect, soaking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and maintaining high levels of evaporation from the canopy.

(Rickey Rogers/Reuters)

Rainforest destruction accounts for 17% of global greenhouse gas emissions

The armchair detectives will be able to report their findings to an international agency being created to monitor whether countries are meeting their commitments to reduce deforestation. Any state found to have broken its pledge will lose its share of a new global fund established by rich countries to pay nations for leaving their trees standing.

The fund, called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (Redd) and worth up to $30 billion (£18 billion) a year, is due to be approved at the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen next month.

Google is helping to create the new online detective tool, which is likely to be launched next year. Philipp Schindler, from Google UK, said: “Our engineers are exploring how we might contribute to this effort by developing a global forest platform that would enable anyone in the world, including tropical nations, to monitor deforestation and draw attention to it.”

Mr Schindler was speaking yesterday at a seminar on deforestation hosted at St James’s Palace by Prince Charles and attended by leaders and ministers from several of the largest rainforest countries.

President Jagdeo of Guyana told the seminar that the cheapest way for industrialised countries to reduce carbon emissions was to pay poor countries, such as Guyana, not to fell their trees.

Contributors to the Redd fund will pay about £4 for each tonne of CO2 saved by reducing the rate of deforestation. Fitting carbon capture and storage systems to coal-fired power stations costs more than £50 for each tonne saved.

Norway announced last week that it would demonstrate how Redd could work by paying Guyana up to £150 million over five years to preserve its trees.

Guyana’s forests have been far less logged than in many tropical nations, and under the terms of the new deal with Norway, Guyana could actually be paid for increasing deforestation. The memorandum states that Norway will compensate Guyana if it does not cut down more than 0.45 per cent of its forests per year, but Guyana is currently felling trees at a far slower rate. The countries contributing to Redd are concerned that their money could disappear into the pockets of corrupt officials in poorly governed countries. There are also fears that payments will result in logging companies switching to unprotected areas, resulting in no net reduction in deforestation.

Per Frederik Pharo, of the Norwegian Government’s forest protection fund, said payments would only be made when countries could prove that they had reduced their annual rate of deforestation by an agreed amount. He said the targets would be raised every five years.

Brazil has halved its rate of deforestation in the past year but Tasso Azevedo, of Brazil’s Forest Service, warned that it could increase again unless the country received substantial sums of Redd “People have to have some income and we need a lot of cash for the community to maintain the forest,”he said.