Discovery Channel add new interactive earth tool to help track the state of the planet

Discovery Channel (owners of TreeHugger.com) have created a new interactive tool called EarthLive that helps you track the state of the planet in a Google Earth kind of way.

You can use this interactive globe either to find environmental news (illustrated as red push pins) or to see how specific ecological events affected the world (in terms of sea temperature, rainfall, etc…). It’s a great way of using an interface we are getting used to (thanks to Google) and adding many layers of depth.