Useful, but just an observation do you think you actually need 9 JS files and 3 CSS for such a page? maybe you don't need all of them? or you can minify the JS into one file and use that?
Indeed, but I guess, like people have said there is other information we are not privy too. Glad to see it back though. Personally speaking it was not clear to me why it was taken down in the first place.
This looks great and I can see this being useful, but if I just land'ed on the site I would struggle to know what it is about....but you probably have this covered anyway :)
looks good, you might want to look at swipe.js so you can provide a touch optimised version. At its simplest you could use swipe.js so your carousel can be swiped as opposed to clicked when viewing on touch enabled device.
"A BBC/National Geographic documentary is being made about the project. This will probably air first in the UK and in the US in November, .." - so I guess they will have a lot more cool pics. (BBC Website)