This is too big of a deal not to highlight.
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/004070.html
In case you weren’t aware of this, there has been a crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan for quite a while now. Lots and lots of people are being killed there (primarily because of their ethnicity), and subsequently more are trying to flee the region into Chad, creating a massive humanitarian crisis.
The US has done a shit job of paying attention, and while the UN is doing slightly better than they did with Rwanda, it still has been pretty screwed up for a while.
I’m glad a big American corporation is doing something with their products to highlight this problem.
To get at the featured stuff in Google earth, go to the layers section of the sidebar, and scroll down to the “Global Awareness” section. It is the first listing there, labeled “USHMM: Crisis in Darfur”